1 year in and this job still seems just as cryptic and difficult. Very little documentation about the systems here and the imposter syndrome is feeling more like a reality than a pathology.

I’m about to look into different work.

The white outfit is nice. I’ve played this game for maybe 80h. It truly was a spiritual journey for me too. It made me cry more than once.

It will always hold a special place in my heart.

I haven’t played this in a while I think I’ll load it up

Rayman Legends and Borderlands both live rent free in my mind. I don’t know how to feel about it.

Horizon Zero dawn comes in a close 3rd place.

I’m thankful for you, and Beehaw, too.

Right back at ya buddy ❤️

Yeah, that’s fair.

We’ll see who gets eaten first though. I bet everyone will be full before we get to em.

See, that’s the thing though, he earned the money for selling music and doing concerts.

The song is a class warfare anthem.

I think it’s pretty important to not condemn him for political alignment ALONE.

NOW, if he was funding Trump’s legal defense or something heinous like that, that would be more serious.

Point being, open political discourse is critical. Don’t wanna be fascist or anything.

I’m not sure, he’s not a billionaire or anything. He has money, but he earned it through working rather than exploitation AFAIK.

That makes him working rather than owning class, right? I’m no expert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU

I was thinking Sony. Played it on PS4. I wonder if it they do it in a similar way.

I am unreasonably excited for this. Got the free download of control, willing to buy the copy of control 2

They probably should be able to. They no doubt got compensated in some way for each game played.

I don’t know.

It sounds like you’re assuming that everything you put out there isn’t already being stored.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

Zelda OOT. I’ve been playing it before bed to wind down. It gives me good feels.

Powderhorn ( @Powderhorn@beehaw.org ) OP

Ok, so I get that marketing is kinda totally evil and causes moral injury. Have you looked into:

• UX
• Product design
• Editorial Design
• Environmental design
• Illustration
• non-profit, educational, public sector\government

I realize that the market is shit right now, but use all your advantages to get what you need.

After looking for a really long time (3yr) but only halfheartedly, I landed a job last august. One of the biggest things that helped were really luck (which you can enhance through repetition and effort) and some cleverness.

Using GPT to assist with organizing and formatting my resume, as well as crafting cover letters, proved to be highly effective for me. Theoretically, this approach is ideal for navigating the applicant tracking systems that employers use, enhancing your chances of getting hired. GPT excels at incorporating relevant buzzwords and operates as an “average-ifying engine.” When it comes to resumes and cover letters, this capability is invaluable, as it optimizes your documents to align closely with what hiring algorithms and recruiters typically look for.

also, I used GPT to make the garbage I wrote in that previous paragraph more readable (full disclosure)

Also, it can, as I did up there, act as an editor, speeding up your process SIGNIFICANTLY. If you have to apply to 100 jobs, I think some shortcuts are in order.

I hope this helps. Feel free to DM me of you need someone to bounce ideas off of :) I promise I won’t just dump your message into GPT and use it to respond to you.

As for the ward… I have a lot more experience with that than I’d prefer. It’s good to stay out, but make sure you have enough support. I’ve learned that just putting everything you don’t want to think about on a shelf in the back of your mind is… poison.

Take care, Random Internet Friend

I want to help you, but first I want to know do you need more to vent or do you want practical solutions?

I’m happy to give you either.

/Sincere

I read posts like yours and I think of the turn of the old phrase “money can’t buy you happiness” to which I say “but it sure does remove an awful lot of suffering”.

Income inequality is, in my mind, the single largest contributor to all of this. If OP made as much as they should be making, and you did and I did and we all did then I think we wouldn’t have this thread. OP would afford better help than they are getting, more would be available, and I think that we wouldn’t incur so much moral injury from the positions that we are put in because they would just simply be better.

I definitely understand that life is never going to be easy, per se, but it doesn’t have to be this hard.

Don’t give up hope. Organize.

I had forgotten about their failure to codify that into law, but in the same breath, I doubt the situation was so simple. That said, I may be cynical enough default to your viewpoint.

Self intrest is a powerful motivation for anyone, let alone a politician.

Anyway, thank you for reminding me!

Yes. They thought they could keep skimming. The problem is that their (and everyones, really) business model is predicated on YOY growth and when it doesn’t happen, they fire people to try and recapture funds.