blackstampede

Rules:

1. Everyone is playing the game, whether they know it or not.
2. When you know (or remember) that you're playing, then you lose.

I'm assuming they retroactively lost their immersion in Metroid.

Night birds

A probability field with delusions of grandeur

Yeah, it's flashback where he took a girl on the cheapest date possible, which involved stealing snacks from a vending machine. He immediately got stuck and the woman left.

This is the kind of nerd sniping I'm here for. Invite them to Lemmy. 🍿

I bet they would get so much done.

My go-to is a fantasy in which I give an unfiltered speech to graduating seniors at a university, explaining in detail the day to day bullshit they will be dealing with once they enter the workforce.

1. Get GitHub pro (4$/mo) and do two or three side projects. Try to space out commits so you have a little activity every day or so instead of a few big ones. Add a nice readme for your account.
2. Update your resume. Use an online service, or ideally, run multiple drafts by some sort of career advisor at your school. It should be short, clear, and include a side projects section. Put your GitHub URL in it too.
3. Clean and update your LinkedIn. It's a shit website, but managers, HR, and c-suite people use it a lot. Make sure you have a nice headshot- it doesn't have to be professional, but nice.
4. Make a list of companies you're interested in, find them on LinkedIn and connect with everyone you can from them. Prioritize management, HR, and company founders (for startups).
5. Tell everyone you're looking for work. The people you connect with on LinkedIn, friends, family, whatever. Be personable, somewhat funny, and don't act desperate.
6. NOW apply for positions at the companies you've got on your short list. Apply to every position you think you're a fit for, give it a few weeks, and then apply to everything you might be able to figure out given some time. If you've had friendly interactions with people through LinkedIn, tell them you applied to a position at their company.
7. Practice interviewing, but don't feel like you have to be smooth and charismatic. Feel free to go off on nerd-tangents about related tech that you're interested in. Most of the people interviewing you don't have the expertise to tell if you actually know what you're doing, so the way they identify good tech people is through stereotypes. If you act a little autistic or geeky, they'll eat it up (most of the time).

Good luck.

Thanks!

I'll tell you the strategy that worked for me last time (quit for ~2 years), and that I'm using this time.

• Switch to a vape. Lung capacity increases immediately, and you get rid of the bad smell. If you haven't vaped, give yourself some time to get used to the different habit (no cigarette packing ritual anymore etc)
• Buy a 0 nicotine vape or two, or find a local place you can get them easily. This is your "inside" vape.
• Buy a refillable vape and get nicotine liquid roughly equivalent to the full-nic vape you switched to from cigarettes. This is your "outside" vape.
• Start restricting the locations you use the full-nic vape. I work from home, so I don't vape full-nic at my desk, I walk outside to do it. You want to break the absent-minded vaping+work or vaping+tv habit.
• Step your nicotine intake down over as long a period as you like, but don't ever step it back up. First time I quit, I did it over about a year. That's a little extreme. You could probably do it over a few months.
• Once you're on 0 nic all the time, either stay with that, or gradually wean yourself off the habit as well. This is much easier without the chemical addiction.

Good luck.

I poked around and couldn't find a repo link. Can you point me to that?