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Makes sense,

I see ads on TV/internet for cheap Wireless deals, i just assume it mean a longer contract/forcing you to buy a pricier phone

I assume author means, people who invest in mutual funds/retirement accounts want the value to go up, thats why they bought shares. Author is saying that then the money from share purchase is then lent to short sellers who short the stocks included in those retirement accounts/mutual funds which works to lower the price of the value of those shares.

I think when it comes to preventing money from being made available to short sellers probably wouldn't improve the financial system long-term, but i see how this could be interpreted as a frustrating facet of our current system.

Springboot (batch, web, rest) / Angular(at work) and React(personal)

i would say <5 minutes a week

I would add getting the first professional job, the challenge is getting through the recruiter, as many recruiters have to bat candidates away from open job positions after they are given strict "must have requirements" from engineering managers/directors.

So you should expect some frustrating conversations with recruiters, but most of the actual engineering people dont really care about what you did before you walked in the door as long as you satisfy their knowledge/skills requirements.

I worked in sales after a some-what useless liberal arts degree, transitioned into software-engineering/programming after 3-4 years of making cold calls :)

I would consider someone with no "professional" experience/no degree. You say no "professional experience", a transitioning developer can still build projects to display technical skills/knowledge/make stuff to be used by someone, contribute to open source projects, and volunteer time for non-profits/build stuff to display skills. I've had employers say they looked at my github, saw some really simple open source commits I made and that made them bring me in (this happened at a big bank and a big insurance company - led to job offers).

I was interviewing a dev this week for a job with an undergrad and a MS from good universities, she didnt have any github/projects/code to share with me, and struggled through easy algorithm questions.

So... I get that they went to great schools... I see that she has great professional experience... But i would rather interview with a dev that can share some of their code projects with me, and as long as you have basic algorithm skills id rather hire you than the person i interviewed yesterday.

When i was trying to get my first Java/Spring programming job, i enjoyed watching experienced devs show you walking around their local environment while debugging local issues which helped a lot,

But yea after you get familiar with your major tools, terminal, IDE, etc, i don't think viewing is a better experience. I still think a lot of tools that are extremely complex with tons of features, Intellij, AWS, it helps to see an experienced power user show you all the shortcuts/how they navigate.

Nowadays, when experimenting with a new tool, usually documentation and get-started-guides are most beneficial for me (text based not videos).

For Java, we could try:

OCA: Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 8 Programmer I Study Guide: Exam

Pretty boring read but would definitely provide her a great base for getting to Java. Best wishes to your friend's daughter!

I'm not having any major issues in NYC or CT,

I believe there has been a national delivery truck shortage for a while, and I assume veteran drivers/delivery people are hard to come by as well for the delivery companies. It would make sense that the big delivery companies would be hiring temp (less professional) delivery people to help complete the surge in orders.

I did find a few packages dropped on the ground below mailboxes due to snow being around the mailbox, but i think thats pretty reasonable considering my neighbors and I didn't properly clear the snow around the mailbox, but the mail person did deliver the mail in the boxes.