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Not sure but he touched on something that might have struck a nerve. The ONLY people who could do something about FIFA were the sponsors. Threaten to cut down the money tree and change will come faster than you think.

I don't use it because I am a one man show. I don't have a need for it.

The problem is in contacting a lot of caterers at the same time for an estimate based on guests and food.

Thanks for the advice. I will have to get a list together of my interests narrow them down.

I can relate, I'm 29 just engaged and I feel my job will be disappearing here pretty soon. Self taught dev, and average design skills. If there is anything you want to work on I can help.

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Thanks, this to me read like a pep-talk. Might be just what I needed to get me off my butt and start working on something. Better to fail than to not try at all. Now if only I could quit playing Destiny after work.

Ok sorry, but there has got to be a way to get humanity more interested in Science and math than entertainment.

What can we do? We need to be United as a species rather than divided by race. How can we as "hackers" change this?

>I'd like to know why you are stuck

Education is holding me back, I started working at a newspaper when I turned 20 as a Graphic Designer, moved to IT, then to the Web Department. Fast forward 9 years, now my position is mash up of all of these. Everything I have learned has been self taught, I feel like a Jack of all traits master of none. I feel I lack a solid foundation on the fundamentals.

>How do you think you can get out of it.

Honestly I don't know if I can get out of it without putting my life on hold. Which, I can't since I'm pretty much paycheck to paycheck and about to get married. I'm currently trying to teach my self Java to add to my tool chain. (html, css, javascript, php). I'm hoping I can collect enough skills that if I do apply for another job my lack of education will not hurt my chances so much.

>What keeps you there?

The steady income.

>Benefits?

We have them, but definitely not here for them.

>Pay?

Awful, I'm a couple of dollars over an In-N-Out burger flipper. I'm on the Central Coast in California, not many tech jobs around)

>The job is easy?

After 9 years it better be. :-)

Thanks, this is really helpful. My goal is to learn as much as possible about various things to open up more job opportunities.

Woah! Thanks, bookmarked.

As a beginner do you think Meteor would be the wrong place for me to start my JavaScript adventure?

One thing I have been doing lately is going through sites like Freelancer.com and browsing their projects section. I have been looking for "build a website" projects and gathering ideas this way. Feels a little dirty since they are not my ideas.

Thanks for the ideas. There is a small group that organizes mixers around here, I'll make an effort to get out there again and network.

This is great! I work for a newspaper and have thought about talking to some of our sales reps about any frustrations their clients may have expressed. I figure this would be a good place to start collecting ideas.

"Look at a few new hot start-ups and think to yourself, how would this work in an entirely new markets & user-case?" I will definitely do this to try and spot some opportunities. Thanks.

I actually love the idea of chore tracking. Furthermore, I think this can be turned into a game. Add a point system for chores where once a chore is completed you are awarded a point. After X amount of points you earn a reward.

If this is for kids, rewards can be video games, pizza, etc.

Ha, I wouldn't say I avoid coming up with ideas, I just have a problem seeing the signs that tell me "hey i can fix that, or I can build something to solve that".

I don't have a facebook account, because I don't care for the noise. So I miss out on people's complaints/problems. I rarely use twitter, I use it to follow penny stocks. I don't use snap chat/pinterest/whatsapp/etc...

...Maybe I'm just old.

I have hit this wall as well. Half way through a project I stop and ask myself:

Who is going to use this? Does anyone have a need for this? How do I get people to use this instead of X? Can I monetize this?

Half way through working a project I sometimes give up because I'm not sure I would even use it. That's the problem I'm trying to solve, figuring out what I can build that compels me to see it through and solve a real problem even if it's not MY problem.

Will do! Thanks I appreciate it. More than likely I will take you up on that offer.

Thanks all are great suggestions, I will do some homework this week and see if I can get the ball rolling on something.

Thanks, I'll look through some of those sites you recommended.

True, that sounds like a feature more than a product, plus I would hate to have to rely on third parties.

I want to build a product, something useful.

That's awesome. I see that hes looking for developers, I'm mostly a PHP/Laravel dev. Great idea though.

Thanks for the advice.

I guess a first world problem for me would be the way private messaging works on Twitter. I wish there was a way to have a private group messaging feature. I find myself having to screen cap a conversation back and forth between recipients.

Wikipedia builds a better picture of my town. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria,_California

Know of any webapps that connect customers to local farmers? Offline we have farmers markets.

I can see how public transport can be a pain in a big city. I live in a city of about 100K on the Central Coast of California. We build out not up like some of the more densely populated cities. Big money here is agriculture.

I doubt we could reproduce most of what ancient cultures did. Why did they build things the hardest way possible and where are the tools?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F

so?

Citalopram, 1.5 hours at the gym, and Dolce's Lean living have worked wonders for me.

Stock market (Penny Stocks). You have to be willing to lose it though....

A coworker jumped in a stock at .04 and sold at .07 initial investment was $400.

Ugh, don't read to much into the comments here. HN is full of whiners... or maybe I'm just getting old and the young crowd seems to whine a lot.

It's been tough for me as well. I work for a newspaper and most of my time is spent here duck taping things together. I don't have much free time to work on side project and what little free time I do have I like to spend away from a computer.

I recently had an interview and was asked to show some of my previous work. Like you all I had were small project sites and any real work for me is sitting behind a firewall on server that is only accessed at work.

I had a phone interview then a face to face. Everything went well, but with out any real work to show I feel I was at a disadvantage. Good luck. Let me know what how it goes. Maybe your interview strategy can shed some light.