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…

Are we sure the reporter heard Putin right?
Maybe he was saying “Give up, dumbass.” to Trump…

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.

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

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

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

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.

At 18, hardly. And you’re certainly not adult enough at 18 to be given the power to ruin other people’s lives.

trump and Mike Johnson convicted and executed by firing squad

Trump will probably die of old age, sadly. Vance might get to be tried though, if he takes over the regime.

But they won’t be shot. They’ll be hanged. Execution by firing squad is a military “distinction” - at least when it’s carried out as part of a lawful sentencing process - and it’s considered one notch above hanging, which is reserved for common criminals and is applied to particularly disgusting characters as a mark of shame.

That’s why a lot of Nazis were hung rather than shot. I don’t think we’ll think of high-ranking MAGA officials as worthy of a firing squad.

Only the top Nazis and the most egregious underbosses. Hundreds of thousands of former SS, waffen SS and Gestapo officers went through the denazification process for a few months, during which they underwent a kind of reverse brainwashing - which also served as a probationary period to make sure they weren’t ultra-Nazis trying to hide their true feelings - then they got reabsorbed into German civilian society.

Other German-occupied countries went through the same process. France for example, had roughly half a million civil servants who previously worked for the Vichy regime - some of them having done some pretty unsavory things.

It’s one of the great untold shameful stories of those countries, that everybody at the time swept under the rug because they - understandably - desperately wanted to move on, and also because, like it or not, the countries simply couldn’t function without rehabillating those disgusting people and their former skills.

How much more proof do we need that ICE is to Trump was the SS was to Hitler: his private lawless paramilitary force?

ICE will end up doing what the SS did. It’s bound to happen. And it will happen all the more easily because they’re not the best and brightest by a long shot, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

I’m not MAGA so I’m not that easy to gaslight.

Here’s Dean Cain’s new ICE uniform:

Aah! I bet the new FBI officials will release the Epstein files!

My answer to this is: don’t clean and organize anything. Wherever my wife lets me get away with it, it’s been working great for me for the past 35 years.

The way she moves her lips… she’s a star.
Now you’re thinking like a president!

Sounds more like thinking like a sex-obsessed old man to me.