Are they going to put up with me playing copious amounts of city building games, my weekly Dungeons & Dragons game, and never shutting up about Aztec history?

3w ago

How do I pivot my career?

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

I got certifications, communication skills, and I research every company I'm lucky enough to get an interview for. You hiring? I would be a star employee.

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Question, how do you suggest writing resumes that involve the company mission? I can't think of something that doesn't involve having AI tailor your resume or throwing keywords around in the summary (which those never work). I try to tailor cover letters to places I'm applying to.

3w ago

How do I pivot my career?

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

I'm in the same boat. I'm trying to go from frontend developer/designer to project manager. My advice is to look for certifications that are respected in the field and then acquire them.

3w ago

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

There it is. It's so easy to do nothing. You're very much like "us".

3w ago

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

Get someone over here to give me a full time job. Or sponsor me to move wherever you are. Have a job ready for me when I get there. I got PMP, PMI-ACP, and PSM I certifications along with AWS certifications. I need either a source of income that can support me without firing me for protesting or a way out after I do whatever you want done.

3w ago

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

I can lose my life. I can lose my health. I can lose my freedom. All those things could happen with a high chance of failure without anything changing. In fact I could make the situation worse. The failed assassination attempt on Trump boosted his poll numbers and contributed to his victory and his paranoia.

It's very easy for people like you to tell me to sacrifice, but people like you will never help me.

Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable. Put your money where your mouth is. Then we will discuss what I'm freed up to do to help the world.

3w ago

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

My point is that we're so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can't start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises. We had military occupations in our cities which have been forgotten because that was half a dozen scandals ago.

Personally I've been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.

Now there is a war. I'm going hungry.

3w ago

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

I think something most of the outside world doesn't understand about the USA, there are very few "us" unless you're conservative. It's a hyper individualistic society in an extremely large geographic area. The idea of collective anything is a foreign concept to me and I'm literally in a work union for the first time in my life for the worst job I've ever had. Unless my current Union is ok with the strike I can't afford to skip work. If I didn't have a union then the striking would be completely out of the question. I've been let go from jobs at the drop of a hat growing up in a "right to work state". There isn't a social safety net and my neighbors are completely ok with me becoming homeless. People who get to protest I've viewed as being privileged beyond my means. Community here is for the privileged and I'm scraping by to survive.

3w ago

What are your favourite rock/Punk/similar bands, preferably non-English?

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

You need to get into Spanish Hair Metal.

Duedas - Júpiter

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Mister Neon @lemmy.world 3w ago

We don't think the world sees us as the Avengers anymore. At this point things are so bad here we've stopped thinking (which is different than not caring) about how the world thinks of us. For fuck's sake our president started a war when we weren't looking. It's like riding in a bus the size of a football field being driven by a drunk, that's what living in America is like.