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Also idk if I would recommend trading. Unless you have insider knowledge, it’s literally just luck.

I invested a little money (like tens of dollars) into Chinese ETFs during this tariff pump and dump (didn't sell), some of my ETFs already have 20% gains or more. I just invest for the long term when I have some cash, and it has worked out better for me since.

Though I did this while still working. I haven't traded since losing my job. I only recommend this when you have income.

Not WFH, but: If you think you can handle driving a 13 ton truck safely and if the option would work for you, you could go for a CDL like me and work long distance for a month and a week off (and repeat). I'm working on getting my CLP, and once I finish school, I plan on working at the same place as my spouse. Together, we may make ~$160K a year, which would help us pay off student loans and other debt, and after a few years of paying off debt and saving for school, I plan to stop working and go back to college for electrical engineering if possible.

IIRC getting a trucking job doesn't really involve an interview. You're typically automatically accepted (at least with certain businesses that accept new truckers) and go into training, similar to how Amazon hires for their warehouse jobs. Some places would also train you for a CDL, and the training is better than some colleges, but you have to pay for it out of your check and it is more expensive. Plus trucking jobs are unlikely to be automated for a while because the liability of crashes are placed on the driver currently, but automating the trucks would put the liability on the business, which would hurt their bottom line. My spouse's workplace also lost a lot of money investing into automated trucks.

IT and software developer jobs are not looking good, so getting a CDL is personally my best option that would allow me to escape IT hell and eventually get into the field I have wanted to go into since I was a child. I know all STEM fields are also struggling, but I figured with an electrical engineering degree, it may help me start an electronics repair business at home if I can't get a job, and because of the tariffs, electronics repair businesses will be higher in demand.

If anyone takes this advice, I recommend doing the practice tests on cristcdl.com and keep doing them until you can get 90% right each time. Doing so will likely mean you will pass the CDL tests the first time.

Oh well, I guess we need to build high speed rail.

GIS is pretty cool. I've looked into it before and kinda wish I went into the field.

This is a decent tutorial video if anyone wants to get started on QGIS: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=SovdBaus7pM

Apparently inv.nadeko.net is down so here's the YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SovdBaus7pM

There are some good server hosting options that allow Tor nodes here (also good for other uses): https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/

I found 1984.hosting and bitfolk.com to be pretty reasonably priced.

I was considering using one of these to use as a WireGuard VPN to hide my IP at home when I self host at some point.

The Tor resource above has a lot of providers that you may have not heard of and can provide good and affordable services.

Some other resources for cheap hosting:

• https://free-for.dev/#%2F%3Fid=web-hosting
• https://lowendbox.com/

Yeah some of the lyrics seemed "both sides". Muh non-violence.

This is fucking dark

I was recently let go from my IT job because my new boss is an ass and said they didn't need a programming person anymore and they were doing some "reorganization" (I was in the middle of a difficult script they assigned me to do and never finished, lol, they are going to struggle, and of course, this is bullshit and I suspect other reasons for my early termination) after gaslighting me and telling me I don't have to worry about my losing my job and that they would find work for me in hardware. Everything they ever told me was a lie, and it didn't take even a month for them to betray me on everything they said. Absolute sociopath. Worked there for over two years. I didn't realize how much the old boss liked me and worked hard to fight back against higher ups snuffing out our team.

I am getting out of the IT industry and working towards getting my CDL so I can work with my spouse, doing month straight work and a week off, and pay off our debts and save for me to go back to college for electrical engineering. My autistic ass probably can't get a job in IT because I am too smart in the industry that I threaten the incompetent managers and higher techs.

I have to sometimes post in the chapotraphouse community if there is no other relevant community as I assume it is the default.

Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan (CW: song about SA from religious authority)

I never said it was cheating. But I remember in a textbook, I believe history, there was no mention of anything related to the question problem in the chapter. It was actually answered in the next chapter, so I think it was an error made by the author/publisher.

I was just saying it wouldn't surprise me if schools scanned textbooks or provided ebook versions and provided chapters piecemeal, and then students would be screwed because they wouldn't be able read ahead to find out the out of place question was answered in the next chapter.

Even if it was an entirely different book provided, my experience in online college is that you have to work with absolute slop. It wouldn't surprise me if the same errors that were minimal in old textbooks were more frequent in the rat's nest of online courses and their app abominations where the content created by slave wage staff is rushed and half-assed.

When I was in school, I had to read ahead in the book because the answers to the questions in the previous chapter were actually in the next chapter. It wouldn't surprise me if this is still the case, and now students are screwed with a crappy, incomplete pdf that has out of place questions.