I had several careers doing vastly different jobs - both white and blue collars - in seven countries. I can tell you what I did to land my jobs, but bear in mind that I’m close to retirement, so what I did back then may not work anymore, as the job market was probably more more open when I started out.

I basically applied for jobs being brutally honest about what I could and couldn’t do, about my flaws and my strenghs. For instance, one of the things I always said during job interviews was that I’m terminally lazy, and that’s why they should hire me because I will work long hours to put something in place that will allow me to not do something repetitive more than once. Turns out, this line was both true and the thing that sold my application for most of my employers.

Also, when I changed jobs completely - for example when I went from computer programmer to CAD designer - I applied for a job at small companies that didn’t necessarily have the money to pay seasoned engineers and told them I was a fast learner, and proposed a big pay cut for 6 months until I proved that I could do the new job I had no experience in. A few key employers took a chance on me, allowing me to change career. And of course, once I had experience doing whatever new thing I set out to do, I could apply for another job in that field and claim experience.

Finally, I did not hesitate to find employers abroad. If I saw a company I liked that offered a job in another country, I applied, flew over to the interview, and if my application was selected, I relocated. I did that 6 times. It’s not for everybody, but if you’re mobile - or extremely mobile in my case - it increases your chances to find your dream job.

Of course, as the years passed, I accumulated quite a resume with an eclectic variety of jobs I held, and places I lived, and my resume spoke more and more for myself as a proof that I could do all those things, so I had less and less trouble finding jobs with employers that knew just by reading my resume that I can adapt to anything.

Would this work today? Maybe. I know the job market is a lot rougher than when I graduated. So don’t necessarily take what I did as something to follow verbatim today. But maybe some of the things I did would work for you too…

I don’t know who Andrew Tate is, but the fact that only Elon Musk’s Twitter lets him have an account tells me everything I need to know about him.

Why would anybody run Windows? Honestly: it’s officially a platform for corporate surveillance, ad delivery and now for ramming AI shit nobody wants down everybody’s throats. And you pay for the privilege.

There are alternatives to Windows. If you like corporate rape, Apple is the lesser evil. If you can’t stand corporate rape, Linux is very mature and very usable by your average Joe these days.

In other words, if you run Windows and you have problems, well sorry but half of the blame is on you.

I’m close to retirement and my Mom regularly tells me I shouldn’t drink a beer after work so often because I might “turn into an alcoholic” 🙂 When I point out that I’ve been doing that for decades and I’m still not an alcoholic, she says “Oh yeah, you’re all grown up now I guess…”

You’ll always be your parents’ baby boy or girl. They’ll stop being overly protective and giving advice to you when they pass away, and then you’ll miss it.

Has he been ordered to come report back to his handler?

If you have friends in Europe, maybe ask them to buy for you and ship them to you declared as gifts. It won’t be cheap, but if it’s the only option…

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

If Mozilla wanted to achieve its stated goals, it would stay clear the hell away from AI, and it would move out of the US.

I’m a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I’ve aspired to become more like. He’s one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he’s always been.

If you eat enough of it, you can even become HHS secy.

I heard the Rock speak and he’s actually an intelligent, articulate person. I definitely would vote for him.

I wonder if he asked the Norwegian minister if Kristiania was nice in the summer…

How do you search PeerTube?

You don’t. That’s what’s preventing PeerTube from being successful.

I’ll take “kind of meh” over Trump anyday.

Hell, a stinking turd floating down the Potomac river would make a better POTUS than Trump…

This has to be an Onion piece. Surely…

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point

Don’t assume there is a line. Most of those MAGA numbskulls are armed to the teeth, yet neither Trump nor any of his less-well-protected henchmen are dead yet. So I guess kiddie stuff is mildly okay for the MAGA dumdums - or at least not really anything to get truly worked up over…

The Jan 6 rioters ARE very special, in a short bus kind of way.

part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear

So let’s see, a sort of protection squadron with weapons… Hmm, I wonder what we could call it…

How about we use fancy German?

“Schutzstaffel” sounds spiffy. And “Waffen” for the weapons.

We could even shorten it to the even spiffier “Waffen SS”.

No but… Would you want to be known as the owner / inhabitant of Epstein Island? Would you enjoy staying there knowing its past?

The island doesn’t give a shit. But you and other people might.