initram

> Because here is what leaving a job to go backpacking tells me: You are willing to take risks when the opportunities present themselves. The unknown (will I find a job later) doesn't scare you. You value learning about other places/cultures, which will give you perspectives other people might not get (let's be real, 2 weeks in a resort hotel on vacation does not teach you about another country's culture).

That's certainly a valid way to look at it, but another employer might look at it as, "I don't want to hire this guy and then 3-6 months from now he decides he wants to chase butterflies in Mexico and is going to leave me high and dry mid-project."

It goes both ways. Now I wouldn't personally look at it that way, but I can see where someone might.

For me it's not only about being safe. I don't have to worry too much about that sort of thing because I blend in most places in my country. But I've lived where people had different values than me and it just gets exhausting. Constantly being bombarded with messages you fundamentally disagree with 24/7. Billboards; local TV; newpapers/web sites; overhearing conversations of the people around you; having odd things said to you; day in and day out. I don't mind that other people have different values than me. But I do mind having to be constantly surrounded by it and having nowhere to go to get away from it.

I can't imagine what it's like to have that issue and also fear for your safety on a daily basis. That sucks and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Probably not because in a lot of car videos there's no real car. Here's one simple example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vTM4_rjhs

There's a company that makes a rig that's basically just an engine and 4 wheels. You film your entire commercial using it and they replace it with computer imagery of your car in post. I can't find the video at the moment, though.

It reminds me of my Freshman college English class where the teacher had to teach the class not to turn in their first draft of papers. Reading each others' papers, you could really see that just going over it once and correcting things made a huge difference in quality and coherence.

The rule-of-thumb is that you should expect to spend 1 month looking for a job for every $10,000 of salary you expect to make. So it's not at all surprising that an engineer would take 8 months to find a new job.

I've learned to intentionally stop all videos before they finish so that you don't get another unrelated video auto-started, you don't get some weird ad or other overlay that makes scrubbing back in the video impossible, and so you don't have to see a bunch of "subscribe to my other thing and here's a video preview of it that makes no sense without sound!"

I too used them to get my first business off the ground. I sold through them for over 5 years and always had good experiences. I met Kee and some of the staff at MacWorld 12-15 years ago and they seemed very nice. I'm sad to see them go, especially like this. They made something that would have been impossible easy at the time.

And "Kee" was the owner's first name, as well!

This sounds a little odd to me:

>the Consumer Review Fairness Act, prohibits inclusion of gag clauses in consumer form contracts

Won't that just lead to some businesses asking you (in a sneaky way that you don't realize unless you read several pages of legalese) to sign an NDA?

What if you don't have a Facebook login?