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- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 19 hours ago:
You’re facing an extra tough time right now because computing has optimized the hiring process so much, it’s difficult to get your foot in the door, and geopolitics are complicating things.
You’ll need to keep in mind that 21 is still quite early in your life, and the world and pop culture really pushes an “instant success” mindset that sets all the wrong expectations.
You’ll need to do several things, unfortunately all at once. First, deeply understand personal finances. Understand that you need to “pay yourself first” (savings/investments) and then what’s left over is what you have to manage expenses and debts. If you keep yourself out of debt you’re better off. Bogleheads Wiki changed the way I viewed my money: www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
You’re going to have to continue school. You need an Associate’s at a minimum. Go to a public community or municipal college. With an AA from here, most states will grant you automatic admission to public state universities. Research this. Regardless of what your views are on the utility of college degrees, you have to play the game. A college degree is a clearing house to larger companies. Trade school, is another option.
You’re going to have to work, to finance your costs of living plus your education investments, unless you’ve got someone or some financial instruments which let you focus on school.
With respect to college specifically, you’ll get out of it what you put in. Many folks will say it’s a waste, that “they didn’t learn anything new” while they went through. Well, that just signals to me they phoned it in; maybe they got lucky and got a break on their job, too.
From there, you’ll have your personal finances on lock, and one or two degrees (AA and a BA, and maybe a certificate or two) and you’ll be much more competitive.
The real game changer after all this is networking. The saying goes: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. The best jobs don’t get posted to corporate websites, or if they do, they’re posted for labor law compliance and they already have a candidate in mind. Become a master at socializing (≠ partying), hint: it’s mostly just listening to other people.
It takes time. Be patient. Stay focused. You’ll get there.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 weeks ago:
There is a lot to be said for the differences here.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 weeks ago:
In the US at least, the constitutional requirements for being elected to the presidency do not prevent felons from being elected, and there are good arguments for this. A weaponized judicial system can be used to oust or prevent political opponents from gaining the presidency.
- Comment on Purrfect Diagram 2 weeks ago:
It’s a Neutron Cat.
- Comment on If the USA ever rewrites their constitution it will likely have embedded ads. 3 weeks ago:
It’s what plants crave.
- Comment on Is PerfectEssayWriterAI the Best Tool for Writing Essays with References? 3 weeks ago:
In short: No.
- Comment on Hue hue hue 5 weeks ago:
And 10m Amateur Techs!
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 month ago:
Soviet Russia
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 month ago:
No no, in Soviet Russia, beans count you.
- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 1 month ago:
All my homies use a circular one:
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 1 month ago:
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 2 months ago:
I studied Gaussian curves and found a mistress
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 2 months ago:
Pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of banknote designs. Many printers, scanners, even software will prevent loading the document for processing if the constellation is present.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 2 months ago:
Only from an outside perspective. Inside the black hole it’s already next Tuesday.
- Comment on How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with? 2 months ago:
I’ll think about it.
- Comment on What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes? 2 months ago:
This may seem counter-intuitive, but air in this case is the problem, so filling it less introduces more air (which is compressible) versus liquids which are generally incompressible.
But OP mentioned the bottles they use are not great so the problem they face may really be about gising better containers.
- Comment on I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops 2 months ago:
There at the end he revealed the point of the exercise; it wasn’t to have a functioning disk, but to push one’s individual skill boundaries and learn new ways to solve problems. If the disk worked at the end then it would be a double benefit, but that wasn’t the point.
It’s a lot like learning to fly or sail a boat. Are there more economical means of travel? Absolutely. But in doing these things we gain new tools to solve adjacent problems.
Do I have a need to finely and evenly spread a magnetic slurry? Nope. But the wire-wrapped rod may very well help me out in the future!
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
Please think of the CEOs—they need a new yacht for when they’ve flown in on their G4 to the Hamptons and their summer yacht is in San Diego.
- Comment on Robots on the Front Line: Ukraine’s Unmanned Land Vehicles Transforming Ground Warfare 3 months ago:
The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.
- Comment on Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces 3 months ago:
If a company can own a copyright to the Eiffel Tower at night, then individuals ought to be able to own their own image and likeness, and have that encoded as a fundamental right.
- Comment on Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering 3 months ago:
I’ve heard it out as all life is suffering. It can be a bit dark, depending on one’s headspace, but liberating if simply accepted.
- Comment on Nothing has helped me learn to trust my instincts more than trying to plug in hundreds of USB devices over the years 3 months ago:
Are there actually people out there not paying attention
Have you ever been to a Costco?
- Comment on Secure Your Gmail Now As Google Warns Of Password Attacks 3 months ago:
Use hardware-based security tokens.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Basically the premise of I, Robot.
- Comment on The Elder God 4 months ago:
Make Pirates Great Again
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 5 months ago:
I’ve been to SCS’s website and it seems… incomplete? It was on mobile so maybe that makes a difference but with how often I’ve seen it recommended I was surprised to see a site which did not look done.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 5 months ago:
Because stupidity is immortal.
- Comment on Coffee is not brewed homogeneous 5 months ago:
Really? I’m getting mixed signals tbh
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 6 months ago:
The subtext there might be that Dr Strange felt so hopeless about the situation that he didn’t conceive to look into the possibility, out of an infinite number of them.
