Sure. but that's only because the employment environment in IT has become so toxic and insecure that you kind of HAVE to go it solo, with the inherent instability that comes with it. Then you end up wearing many more hats, having to devote less time to actual productive work, and also less time to staying current. And of course, the more people that fall into the gig economy, the worse it gets.
Want to see what excess competition for wages does - look no further than Uber, where every driver is basically doing gig work, and not making anywhere near as much money as a cabbie was before. And no hope for a wage increase, because if they want more money, there are plenty of other people willing to take their place.
With much of IT becoming the equivalent of a MacJob, all the "pointers" above will be useless.
All this assumes that increasing the number of people who now have to look for temporary gigs won't drive rates down. This is patently false. Otherwise there would be no concern with the influx of H1Bs.
The best times are past. Time to get into an industry that doesn't have a preponderance of management who have failed to mature as they aged.
Was it Amityville Horror with the girl stuck in the tv and the voice saying "Get out!" Good advice in an industry that increasingly is at war with its workers.
Taunting him would be likely to get others killed (collateral damage). Why would I do that? Easier to talk to them. Especially since guns have terrible accuracy well before the shooter would be out of range to carry on a discussion. And he'd have to see me. If I'm safe behind a corner, who has the advantage? Not the shooter. Far better than having a dozen armed shoppers shooting everything in sight.
Many people fear death. By denying others the right to die, they feel they have some control over death, including their own. It's also why so many religions push a life-after-death scenario - tell people what they want to believe, and you've got them.
e) Get into another field entirely where businesses have been around long enough to have grown out of the childish ways of management so prevalent in the IT field.
If you trace back all the stories, they all originated with Gardener's April Fools joke. He even created a face ISBN number for a book and "quoted" from it, citing "Thomas Crapper" (a made-up name) in the book. Of course, most people never bothered to verity that the book didn't exist. Flush toilets existed more than two millenia ago.
... and they're not rotting away now, even with the internet?
Issues - limited ability to type, lack of fine motor control, low vision, dementia, poor short-term memory... and you want them to use a computer, tablet or smartphone? They like their TVs for the same reason Homer Simpson does - they just have to sit there and passively soak it all up. You'll get rid of their TVs when you pry them from their cold, birdlike claws.
And those who can, fall prey to every scam on the net, no matter how many times you warn them. And when you tell them it's a scam, they get mad at you and insist it's not. A can't-win proposition.
And what do they want to talk about? Their soap operas, game shows, etc. Go visit a "home" - you'll sign your DNR order and vote for euthanasia first. When a dog can't be a dog any more, you put it down. Why would anyone want to live a sub-human experience, or force it on anyone else, is beyond me.
I quit the field entirely. Health reasons, which is the inevitable outcome for many of us. Sucks, but it has its benefits. Less stress, no crazy bosses with crazy ideas who want it yesterday, more time with family, friends, the dogs... I miss it, but I would never go back. Enough is enough, already!
It's a different life when you're no longer on Internet time. A normal life.
More people are clueing into the fact that working conditions suck, that sh*t always rolls downhill when it comes to missed deadlines or ever changing specs, and that it's not worth it. Ageism and the up or out mentality, where there are too few jobs to move up to, doesn't help.
The story that some guy named Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet started with Martin Gardner's monthly column in the Scientific American, when suckers failed to note that it was for the April edition. That April Fool's joke spread so fast, showing that even pre-internet people would believe pretty much anything.
The problem with that is that you can lose objectivity. Each new problem becomes one more burden, but what the heck, its only one more, right? You can easily get so over your head that you end up ignoring your own needs. Burnout and depression are the end result.
And they don't remember that they already ate, or they get angry because something that they've loved to eat for years they now hate, or they refuse to eat, or they only want dessert for every meal.
Literally worse than a child. Which is why you'll see some of them with feeding tubes stuck through the abdomen when they're not even 60.
And when you do convince them to eat something, they're on the phone to the rest of the family complaining about how you "forced" them to eat, and you get all sorts of sh*t for following the doctors orders.
And the paranoia and false accusations, the constant thanks they give you right before they call everyone else to complain that you cleaned up their vomit with your bare hands and paper towels rather than let the transportation driver so it became you felt it was the right thing to take the risk yourself rather rhan to expose the unwitting driver to hepatitis.
Trying to take care of someone who needs 24-hpur care has plenty of risks to the unwitting family member. Doesn't matter that you've changed their diapers and cleaned the crap from their butt, that will be quicky forgotten because their minds are going.
No app can replace a person who will put up with this sort of stuff because they understand, and care.
Humans don't need a 100% accurate map of the current system - why should an autonomous car? It will eliminate all the people driving on autopilot who suddenly realize that they're about to pass their exit.
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Sure. but that's only because the employment environment in IT has become so toxic and insecure that you kind of HAVE to go it solo, with the inherent instability that comes with it. Then you end up wearing many more hats, having to devote less time to actual productive work, and also less time to staying current. And of course, the more people that fall into the gig economy, the worse it gets.
Want to see what excess competition for wages does - look no further than Uber, where every driver is basically doing gig work, and not making anywhere near as much money as a cabbie was before. And no hope for a wage increase, because if they want more money, there are plenty of other people willing to take their place.
With much of IT becoming the equivalent of a MacJob, all the "pointers" above will be useless.
The best times are past. Time to get into an industry that doesn't have a preponderance of management who have failed to mature as they aged.
Was it Amityville Horror with the girl stuck in the tv and the voice saying "Get out!" Good advice in an industry that increasingly is at war with its workers.
Taunting him would be likely to get others killed (collateral damage). Why would I do that? Easier to talk to them. Especially since guns have terrible accuracy well before the shooter would be out of range to carry on a discussion. And he'd have to see me. If I'm safe behind a corner, who has the advantage? Not the shooter. Far better than having a dozen armed shoppers shooting everything in sight.
Many people fear death. By denying others the right to die, they feel they have some control over death, including their own. It's also why so many religions push a life-after-death scenario - tell people what they want to believe, and you've got them.
It's a great way for management types not to be confronted with old hands who know way too much more than they do and can call them out on their BS.
e) Get into another field entirely where businesses have been around long enough to have grown out of the childish ways of management so prevalent in the IT field.
I remember reading the original article in SciAm, and the follow-up that said "It was a joke, people." Thanks for the extra info :-)
If you trace back all the stories, they all originated with Gardener's April Fools joke. He even created a face ISBN number for a book and "quoted" from it, citing "Thomas Crapper" (a made-up name) in the book. Of course, most people never bothered to verity that the book didn't exist. Flush toilets existed more than two millenia ago.
... and they're not rotting away now, even with the internet?
Issues - limited ability to type, lack of fine motor control, low vision, dementia, poor short-term memory ... and you want them to use a computer, tablet or smartphone? They like their TVs for the same reason Homer Simpson does - they just have to sit there and passively soak it all up. You'll get rid of their TVs when you pry them from their cold, birdlike claws.
And those who can, fall prey to every scam on the net, no matter how many times you warn them. And when you tell them it's a scam, they get mad at you and insist it's not. A can't-win proposition.
And what do they want to talk about? Their soap operas, game shows, etc. Go visit a "home" - you'll sign your DNR order and vote for euthanasia first. When a dog can't be a dog any more, you put it down. Why would anyone want to live a sub-human experience, or force it on anyone else, is beyond me.
gnu is a small and shrinking past of most distros. L
Two options nuke the hard drive and reinstall the OS, or install a different OS.
An armed society is NOT a polite society. If it were, there'd be no real problems in the middle east, or even Detroit.
He almost makes Trump look better by comparison.
It's a different life when you're no longer on Internet time. A normal life.
More people are clueing into the fact that working conditions suck, that sh*t always rolls downhill when it comes to missed deadlines or ever changing specs, and that it's not worth it. Ageism and the up or out mentality, where there are too few jobs to move up to, doesn't help.
The story that some guy named Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet started with Martin Gardner's monthly column in the Scientific American, when suckers failed to note that it was for the April edition. That April Fool's joke spread so fast, showing that even pre-internet people would believe pretty much anything.
The problem with that is that you can lose objectivity. Each new problem becomes one more burden, but what the heck, its only one more, right? You can easily get so over your head that you end up ignoring your own needs. Burnout and depression are the end result.
Literally worse than a child. Which is why you'll see some of them with feeding tubes stuck through the abdomen when they're not even 60.
And when you do convince them to eat something, they're on the phone to the rest of the family complaining about how you "forced" them to eat, and you get all sorts of sh*t for following the doctors orders.
And the paranoia and false accusations, the constant thanks they give you right before they call everyone else to complain that you cleaned up their vomit with your bare hands and paper towels rather than let the transportation driver so it became you felt it was the right thing to take the risk yourself rather rhan to expose the unwitting driver to hepatitis.
Trying to take care of someone who needs 24-hpur care has plenty of risks to the unwitting family member. Doesn't matter that you've changed their diapers and cleaned the crap from their butt, that will be quicky forgotten because their minds are going.
No app can replace a person who will put up with this sort of stuff because they understand, and care.
Oh, right, they had more of a social life than the people who spend their lives on social media today. And they have their cats.
You could have better spent all that time living a real life. Any AI copy of you is just going to waste its time the same way.
Go into any senior's residence. Once the brain goes, why bother keeping a now-useless body alive?
In the posters case,a device won't work. Even a service dog is a poor bet unless someone else is going to tend to the dogs needs.
We don't have the equivalent of an autonomous car that we can stick on old people to guide them around. There comes a time to let go.
I haven't used my laptop in almost half a year.
Until men can carry kids to full term and breastfeed
Give it time - we've already got the second Parr more or less covered . :-)
Humans don't need a 100% accurate map of the current system - why should an autonomous car? It will eliminate all the people driving on autopilot who suddenly realize that they're about to pass their exit.
"More fun to drive" is just marketspeak for "more tempting to do something stupid." That's why sports models cost more to insure than grannymobiles.