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.

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

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 bee took one for the team.

With any luck, there’s a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.

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This is suspiciously specific 🙂

Even if it was open source (it isn’t, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it’s gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.

Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn’t…

I look forward to not installing it.

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I’m still playing the latter many times a week.

Which one? Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo or Zeppo?

en.news-front.su

If you only have one survival skill on the internet, it’s this:

Never EVER click on a .su link.

Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.

My instance doesn’t sell what I write to train AI.

Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn’t give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

It’s still an improvement over being governed by a raging fascist.

The Trump tariffs hurt everybody - the US, the EU, the entire world. That’s why other countries try to make deals: they’re doing damage control.

Only Trump thinks blanket tariffs are good for his country, because he’s a delusional fool who listens to crackpot economists.

The democrats aren’t the ones doing the hiding and diversion and trying to protect pedos right now. Trump is in power and he’s acting as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of poo, so he’s become the deep state.

people actually think they can vote fascism away

There’s a very good chance that the midterms will be rigged. But there’s still a chance that voting will actually achieve something positive, with the help of the Epstein scandal.

But you’re right: it’s the last window of opportunity. After that, it’s fascist dictatorship all the way for sure.

There’s a guy called Jeffrey Epstein who says they will.