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’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.

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:

But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

If Colbert loses CBS $40M per year, it must have lost CBS $40M last year too. Yet CBS didn’t fire him last year.

CBS must have terrible accountants, because clearly Colbert’s cancellation has nothing to do whatsoever with a certain overweight orange baboon in DC…

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 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…

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…

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”.

Surely Trump, Vance, Homan, Patel, Bove, Bondi, Leavitt…

Coristine’s ass-kicking is just an excuse to send troops into DC. It’s a modern-day Reichstag fire.

And the troops into DC are themselves a distraction from the real question Trump desperately wants to push off the radar: where are the Epstein files?

And finally, my personal believe is that nothing at all happened to Coristine. This is all a show. Because think about it: what are the odd that this high-profile DOGE dude in particular tried to come to the rescue of anybody at all and got beat up for it?

I say he got paid to get punched hard enough to splatter some blood on his clothes and make it public, so Trump could act on it. I might have believed it had it been anybody else. But him? This has “staged” written all over it.

Imagine the number of homeless people who could sleep in a shelter with the solid gold bribe fucking Tim Cook offered Trump alone…

Where’s the Epstein file, is the only question everybody should be asking the orange utan.

I once tried to record / replay my FIAT keyfob with my F0, and it did unlock the car once. Then I spend a bunch of money having the remote lock replaced.

I’d like more evidence that this works reliably before attempting the same thing again…

Are you implying that a man of such unquestioned integrity as Donald Trump might have a conflict of interest here?
Perish the thought…