Here in the US I find this largely untrue. My job prospects have plummeted, almost everyone else in my network is also feeling the burn. I have had one interview in 3 months where I used to have multiple in a given week. Life ain't breezy any more from what I can tell, and I'm in DevOps for 10 years as mid-level/senior, which used to be highly in demand. Having to slash like $80k on my previous salary prospects just to get in the interview pipeline again.
Thank you. This is about increasing your ability to put those man hours to work in a way that makes sense, the most useful thing spending 30 minutes a day meditating does, at least for me, is realign priorities for that day in a way that makes sense.
Whether work related, or just figuring out how to find a way to volunteer in the community more in a way that you are passionate about. You might not be able to stop global warming, but maybe you can donate a book on the legal system to an organization that sends books to prisoners so they can better understand and navigate it.
Honestly this is going to be my last comment on here. It’s time to break the habit once and for all.
Most workers I've hung out around recently, at least in the service industry, seem cheerful and friendly as ever. Most of my remote coworkers in the current gig are some of the friendliest, most intelligent working people I have had the pleasure of working with.
But again, I've stopped looking LinkedIn, disabled or deleted and stopped engaging on the majority of social media platforms (HN remains as a final crutch), and have taken up meditation, therapy, and art as well, so it's not just empty words.
The only thing I have really noticed that's different on a multi-year scale is some companies went fully remote that weren't prepared for it or didn't really want to, which made 2021-2022 my own personal hell with career stability.
You should strongly consider seeing a therapist, in all honesty. Read some books on mindfulness, consider putting the phone down and staying away from news headlines for a while.
I noticed this as well, switching to kind of a relatively new service called Tutanota as I haven’t heard great things about fastmail and protonmail when it comes to spam and looking for something using open source tooling. We’ll see how it goes.
Volunteer at the local public library for 8 hours a day. Spend the rest of the time meditating, drinking tea, and taking my dog out for walks as a part time monk.
The only interactions I have had from past coworkers in 10 years of working full time is one of them occasionally likes a post I make on LinkedIn. YMMV.
Everything I am working on is mostly physical or mental health related this year. My only career specific goal is to keep the job I have throughout the recession, continue doing personal labs and exercises of anything new and interesting that may come out in the future.
I have appointments for two different therapists coming up this next week, have been losing 2 pounds a week for like a month on average, and am in a job I actually want to stay in for the first time in years. So mostly just continue and follow through with all of the above.
> We will soon look back and realize that social media and phone addiction was worse for people’s health than smoking.
This would be the most optimistic end result of social media and phone addiction. It’s very difficult to even measure someone’s long term social media addiction enough to look back and say “they were better off without it.”
Maybe consider making an "ad-supported, free" model, and a "premium" plan without ads? As long as advertising doesn't end up in the premium plan at any point it's the best of both worlds.
If you read TFA it explains that they did consult their lawyer before and after, but that fighting them on it would cost more time and money than they could afford.
Can anyone else compare this to you.com, which is a similar concept in regards to increased privacy? I plan to sign up for Kagi tomorrow, but having used Kagi until I ran out of search on the free version, you.com seems to offer more features specifically in regards to YouChat and ability to preview certain results. It's also free for right now but wonder if they plan to go the ad-supported route in the feature, which would be a deal breaker for me over just paying a monthly plan like you do with Kagi.
Briefly looked at something like a Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit for htpc, until I realized that the Deck will be useful for the 2-3 flights I take every year as well, so for now it still has higher priority on my wish list.
Took a whole two weeks or so to go from reaching out to recruiter to offer letter with the current org. Coincidentally, I am now making more here than I have in any previous role while living in a MCOL area.
The fact that you can play it resting on a couch vs desktop gaming on a home office chair justifies the expense for me personally, but you might not be that lazy.
I have gotten laid off, fired, or otherwise managed out so many times in the last year or so I am writing off the whole year on my resume and calling it a “personal development” year and not listing any short term positions on there. 2021-2022 was just a complete disaster for job stability relative to most of my previous career where I was doing 2-3 years minimum in a role. My personal recommendation in addition to TFA is enroll in COBRA and get an in-network therapist. I thankfully managed to survive off of credit cards, debt, and help from the parents, but if the recent role I landed ends up being a dud not sure what is next for me. Thankfully it seems to be going relatively well.
Agreed, but it honestly still tastes kinda funny compared to a "real burger," having tried it before. If I was going to go full "vegan" I would personally avoid anything pretending to be a burger at a minimum, with the exception of maybe an "Impossible Burger" every now and then if I got a craving as it comes somewhat close. I honestly wouldn't even try going anything close to vegan as a whole until lab-grown meat becomes a real, mass produced, phenomenon. Even then, though, it's hard to say if that would still truly be considered "vegan."
The truly funny thing about that is it is a real food menu item and description I cherry picked from a local restaurant. No creativity on my end required.