ryanmercer

A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me a link to /r/Overemployed, basically it's a bunch of people (mostly CS/tech types) working 2,3,4 full time jobs doing just enough work to not get fired. Per the sub founder:

"Overemployed is a community of professionals looking to work two remote jobs, earn extra income, and achieve financial freedom. Be free from office politics and layoffs. Instead, negotiate a severance and invest in your life."

I've read every thread in the sub the past two weeks and... just wow. Per the admission of some they/people they know have been doing this as far back as the 1990s. Are you aware of anyone doing this? I'm curious how widespread this is.

Personally, this feels extremely dishonest to me, last year I worked over 450 hours of overtime just trying to keep freight moving for my company and the idea that there are people out there drawing multiple full time incomes for doing 5, 10, 15 hours of work a week between their multiple jobs (that's what people are claiming in the sub) just makes me sick.

The router the ISP provided and two bare bones netgear 5-port switches to add more ports in the living room and in my office.

>I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a trained "module". I walk a lot (mostly in cities), and I played first-person shooters since the first DOOM back in 1993. And I recently found out that I strongly prefer first-person games to top-down / 2D games -- I instantly feel "at home" there.

For me it was MUDs, exploring and running to known locations in MUDs almost certainly developed that feature in me as I was playing then in 1994 when I was all of 9 years old and my sole means of transportation was my bicycle in the real world.

Here is a prime example of toxic cyberbullying involving a friend of mine. She was relentlessly bullied for not fitting some cookie-cutter mold of what is "ideal" for a female athlete, or even "ideal" for a woman in general. What was done to her is simply unacceptable, social media can be pure cancer. We CAN do better than this, so why aren't we?

The United States, this was at a private 4-year university. I've seen gobs of job postings on company websites that, on the application section, ask for your LinkedIn profile link as well and my current employer is a very active user as are virtually all of the c-level employees.

Some years ago I met a fellow that was former Amish, still lived extremely simple and dressed almost the same. He left because he got the engine bug, ended up becoming a diesel mechanic and pursuing proper degrees in diesel tech/diesel mechanics, was just purely fascinated by machinery. Interesting guy.

Not the person you are replying to, but one of the first classes on my "let's get a bachelors starting at 36 years old" required us to create a LinkedIn profile as an assignment if we didn't already have one. I think they've just become a de facto thing that is expected.

I remember 9 year old Ryan discovering fservs on IRC in 1994 or 1995 and having his mind blown at downloading some random image file and it turning out to be a nude woman and being both horrified and mildly curious (but not sexually interested, yet). The quality was crap, and continued to be so for the next several years as I revisited this as a teen with some regularity.

Oddly, I think the Lenna example images, as nudity, in the article on vintage hardware may have actually held my interest more than the stuff did well into 1998 or 1999. Actually, the Lenna and other PG/PG-13 images in those technical styles may have interested me more than the nude images of better quality.

Location: Central, Indiana Remote: only please Willing to relocate: no Technologies: I'm not a CS person Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmercer317/ Email: username at gmail

Except for the fact that there are more than just federal tax laws and OP needs to talk to a professional.

Find some charities that interest you then hit up a site like https://www.charitynavigator.org/ and see if they are in the database, if they are see how they are rated, make sure they aren't spending 95% of what they raise on salaries and advertising expenses, etc.

A competent account, with the information OP gave and a little more, can give OP the best advice for their situation in their city/state/country.

A million times this. Some randoms on a website are the last people you want to take financial advice from, especially when that financial advice could potentially lead to a very hefty tax bill and/or criminal charges.

Yeahhhh, the second I saw yesterday I was like "oof".

- I will completely burnout at my job. In the past 6 months alone I've done 400 hours of overtime and after 15 and a half years of the same job it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

- The NFT I made of the only known recording of my father's voice will remain unpurchased because I set a bonkers price (31.12 ETH, he died 3/11/98 which got rounded up by Rarible from 31.198), mostly having created it as a silly birthday gift to myself.

- Lots more inflation, largely due to supply chain issues.

- Employers continuing to struggle with employee retention, and filling empty positions.

- More Web 3.0 nonsense, with (hopefully) the bubble bursting and people coming back to their senses.

- Yet another 12341325 crypto currencies no one but pump and dumpers care about.

- Betty White celebrates yet another birthday, Ryan Reynolds still smitten.

- Used car prices continue to soar due to chip shortages for new production vehicles.

- Housing prices freefall most, or all and-then-some, of the gains from the past year-ish as people largely stop buying due to significantly higher grocery/other consumable bills.

In my experience as a moderator of several subs, Reddit actively blocks zerohedge links, they'll appear in our moderator queues and even if you manually approve them they just sit there in the queue, the only option that works is to remove them or mark them as spam.

They do some others too but zerohedge is the one I see every few days in /r/silverbugs and /r/prepperintel, and the only one I can remember by name.

>Cool technology, though. Anything that reduces the necessity of people to work unpleasant jobs seems like generally a good thing.

The problem there though is that companies like FedEx and UPS employ a lot of college students. Historically a part time handler position, at least here in Indiana, pays 2-3x minimum wage with sort operations frequently at night allowing people to work part time and make a nice chunk of change while going to school during the day. I'd say in Indy 60% of my high school class worked as a handler for FedEx at some point in the first few years after turning 18 because of that.

Sure, it's going to save a lot of wear and tear on people's bodies but when minimum wage is $7.25 and a package handler here in central Indiana will start around $18.45 part time... sometimes people are willing to bust their butts for one reason or another.

Non-American tourists go to North Korea all the time, the tours are just heavily controlled by the government. It's a proper industry.

> After 25 years in Toronto I moved 3.5hr drive North to a beautiful city with gigabit internet, lakes and wilderness.

It's wild, I had to move 20ish miles outside of Indianapolis to a town of 200~ people where the closest gas station is 8-10 miles away and I don't get residential mail delivery while being surrounded by corn and soy fields to actually have access to gigabit internet for the first time in my life... scratches head

No, I have been WFH since March of 2019 and it hasn't changed anything. My wife and I have even purchased a house in that time and we only looked at homes within about a 35 minute drive of my office in the event I get recalled to working in the office.

The low end is always meaningful, it lets you know if you want to apply and potentially waste 3-5 interviews only to find out you'll be taking a pay cut.

>I think most people are naive (even on HN) regarding compensation and negotiations.

I think most people on HN are naïve as to how most companies outside of tech startups actually work. They have concrete pay scales, you get the bare minimum of that pay scale when you hire in, anything above that is from your annual merit based increase which is often at or below inflation. You can look at your co-workers and have a very good idea of what they make to the percent based on how long they've been in their role.

My friends and I regularly share how much we make, and even our 401k balances on any given day. We cover a fairly wide spectrum, with me hands down being the lowest of both categories, and it we're all fine with it too.

Paperweight.

My wife and I are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's far more important to her than it is to me though.

For me a large part of believing in something greater in myself is the hope that I simply won't cease to exist when I experience brain death. I pray hoping someone is on the other end at least listening to me, I rationalize life on our planet as some sort of orchestrated miracle, I look to the vastness of space to realize that I am insignificant beyond imagination and that our planet and solar system are also insignificant beyond imagination.

I think of my friends and family that have died, and hope that I get to interact with them at some point and try and approximate that right now with things like writing the annual letter to my father and telling him what has been going on in my life since he died 12 days before my 13th birthday which I place on my blog here https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/category/dad

I think of the incredible age of the universe and the tiny blip that is a human's lifespan and hope that I am not some sort of chemical accident. That I'm not a bunch of electrical/chemical reactions that believes it is self aware by some fluke.

On any given day I'm 50%+ (sometimes 100%) of the opinion that we likely exist in a simulation which, at least to me, explains why we have such rapid tech advancements, why we have not detected any other sentient species in the universe, why we haven't seen any evidence of Kardashev 2+ level building in our galactic back yard, why so many things have be invented/discovered within weeks or years of each other by human beings with no contact with one another. I also like this thought because, like in the book series Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer, there might be some hope that I can exploit some conditions of the simulation to directly benefit myself by either altering my character database or a database of something around me. Silly, but sometimes it keeps me going.

/r/leanfire man, mostly gotta reduce your living expenses as much as possible and invest as much as possible.

There was just something romantic about the tech of the cold war. Now things are mostly a bit of code injected here or hidden there, but the cold war (and even WWII) was this steady stream of curious gadgets and methods of collecting and passing information.

It's already the future you live in.

Repo agents, for decades, will roll up on a vehicle and hook it up to a tow truck and take off. People go out of their way to hide their vehicles, or block them in with other vehicles, when they haven't paid their loan and know their vehicle is now eligible for repossession.

This just makes it safer for the repo agents, because they can recover the vehicle faster and don't have to risk some nutjob running out of a house/apartment/office with a bat/gun/knife trying to confront them because someone was like "Dave, someone's hooking your car up to a tow truck".

You don't own the vehicle if you have a loan, the bank has the title. The title holder is the owner. The best part about paying off a financed car, to me anyway, is the day the title shows up in the mail and you actually own your car.

- Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX

- Changpeng Zhao of Binance

- Arthur Hayes of Bit mex

- Brian Armstrong of Coinbase