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How does college education have anything to do with living ethically?

Colloquially known as a hippie speedball.

Tell me about it. It used to be a home hosted plan 9 server. Then have been on a Vue kick recently.

Slapping something together quick and dirty.

I'm fairly pragmatic when it comes to tech. With my last job it was heavy on HTML and CSS which I was fairly green at (alright -> decent at now), and there you could say I was a little over my head, but I don't think there were any conceptual issues I couldn't grasp. Obviously you can spend a lifetime learning on how to best rendering pages and modern browsers.

What about those that don't really have a completed side project. I've got a _ton_ of half completed things, and then something with libspotify, which gets DMCA'd in an instant.

Yeah, I need to actually get my domain name doing something. Looks like that's what I am doing today.

When I was younger, I actually seriously considered being a navy nuke.

How do you have multiple short term stints? Do you flat out say you are only looking to join for a short period of time? Are they looking for experts in a particular niche or is there a market for generalists?

I also really need to step my marketing game up.

I've DJed since I was 16 and know "The Industry". There isn't a ton of money in it, but it can pay rent.

A language is a language, and pretty much all aspects of computers I like.

The hiring process is something I would be totally alright with never doing again. Along with the hours at some places and with the feeling you need to take a job. I haven't had options when it comes to work. I'll take it if you give it to me.

I did RoR development back in the day, and worked on interesting challenges shoehorning that to scale for a fairly successful game. Worked with node and a smattering of mobile.

How do you break into other fields?

Tech around me is mainly medical and then aerospace.

Pretty much what I know of sales is from The Office and Glengarry Glen Ross. What's a day in the life of that usually like?

I was primarily in gaming, and I know it's not the same across the board, but with "work" I can't say there was anything I disliked. Honestly I enjoy the technical challenges and problems of programming.

Issues I had: Crazy hours, the interview process... and with the bay area the CoL. Last job was a little more complicated, but I would say I need a certain degree of autonomy. Things were measured to 15 minute intervals on tickets, and I couldn't do it.

Retraining... I have thought about this. I don't know if something like CNC operator is the way to go, or follow a passion. No clue on what to look for or what makes sense. Don't know bang for your buck works there.

Welcome to the absurdity of life champ.

News at a 11, why do Eskimos have so much snow? The answer might shock you!

Please correct me if I am wrong in any of this, as I have a rudimentary knowledge of battery/capacitor/flywheel/Cox's timepiece tech at best. Li-ion make sense for supplying power for things which need Ah/kg high, but if you are not limited by mass, wouldn't maximizing aH/$ be the driving factor? Tesla has been making a massive push into li-ion fabrication and, as far as I can tell, not pursuing other energy storage mediums. Totally speculating here, but I would imagine a fly wheel, or even banks of lead-acid batteries, way out performing li-ion on total lifetime costs to the energy stored and discharged.