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Having a smooth, grill-less front is a welcome invitation to road/rock chips. These things are going to look like 80's Camry's with the lower price tag and "normal" driving habits of the plebs.

Do what's best for you. Only you can answer those questions. If you're not living foolishly then you're 80% through the clear.

The U.S. dollar isn't going to disappear. It runs the world. (sorry, not sorry)

That's a bad assumption that PELL grants are just freely given out to anyone and everyone. You still have to qualify, and the financial status of your parents weighs heavily on that factor.

Couldn't get a read on the short reply, thanks for not bashing me!

"dump" is such a wrong word. But okay, I'll bite.

When my first child was born, I had the "pleasure" of staying home with her most of the day, while I got to learn programming.

Fast forward a few years and boom! Mom and I have totally immersive careers requiring 8+ hours a day from us. (Every weekday, even! Sometimes more!).

In fact, mom is just as much of the breadwinner as I am (more even), so who's gonna watch the kids? We had kids in our twenties, our parents had kids in their twenties (read: not retired babysitters), everyone has their own thing going on. And they all make it work.

We make it work by sending our kids to the most amazing school/daycare system I've ever seen. It's so professional you wouldn't believe it. Their teachers are much better school teachers than we would be.

It's great because they get to learn how to socialize, their immune systems get a proper boost before K-12, they learn new hobbies and advance in programs I couldn't have dreamed of when I was kid. The intelligence level of my 4-year old is quite astounding to me, and I have the entirety of her school to thank.

It's hardly dumping them there. But if it is, that's a really fucking expensive dump.

I didn't read GTD, but I liked the philosophy when it became popular.

Just came here to say that time management is key. When we had our first child, I learned this sink-or-swim style and it made me a much better human being because of it.

Add all aspects of social media to that, as well.

Congrats on maintaining six! I can appreciate what you're doing.

Oh my God, are you my future?!?!?!?!?

Quit two great jobs because they didn't value my value of children.

Programming came easy to me, never learned it anywhere but by myself - out of necessity with a new family.

Now that I'm in a better position, I'm already planning my next career pivot; away from cogs and trinkets and into an even better schedule, as well as my real interest which I was too foolish to finish in school the first time.

You're right, it is pretty fucked up. A rat race, really.

I appreciate what parenting has done to me, it's re-prioritized things for me, but it's also shown me that I should make an exit in the next five years, to save myself some sanity.

I agree with the replaceable cog thing.

I really don't think that has to do with pay though.

It pays so well because everyone needs a technologist, in every industry, in every department, in every building. It's "in".

Now, if it's truly unpleasant - there's a major problem there. Usually somewhere else, another way, perhaps another industry (same line of work) can solve that problem.

This is good advice I think, being as programming wasn't really a passion of mine; just something I got into when I had to grow up quick, and it worked out well.

Once I started and got past the imposter part of it all I went to startups, where they drained all my energy from myself and my family, just as you suggest.

Now I'm somewhere that requires very little of me technically, where I can work pretty much JUST 40 hours and get by and make everyone happy.

I still struggle with trying to make more out of it than I really need to.

I still struggle with wanting to do something totally different, way outside of computers. I feel like I've "conquered" this already. (I know, that's really shallow).

I feel like Medium doesn't even publish articles unless you use foul language.

I mean, I'm all for it. But it just feels like Medium writers are trying too hard.

More importantly, does it support GIFs?

It's a dropdown arrow for me, but yes this gives a pretty good example of why you were targeted if you select the link asking "Why am I seeing this ad?" (Or something like that phrase)

They could also change the pricing. Because they know you'll be more interested to try an expensive steak ($3 more than your neighbor pays).

You'll also find that same steak tastes better now.

>>If you want to stay under the radar of the analytics companies then license plate scanning should worry you a lot more than facial recognition (in the US at least).

Can you elaborate on this?

I'd like to emphasize that all these social media platforms are >giant bullshit factories.

I, myself, am getting too caught up in it all.

I feel like most of the issues stem from lack of self-respect. People THINK they can't get a new job so they don't. They THINK they can't do better for themselves and their family so they don't. They stick it out, wait for retirement, and die 5 years later.

And that's terrible.

I come from an unusual background. I didn't finish college. Neither did my wife.

But when we started a family and realized what we had wasn't going to work; we changed it for ourselves and our family.

I mean, when the alternative solution is death and despair, why aren't more people doing something for themselves?

Every time I was in a position where I felt taken advantage of, or not compensated enough for who I am or what I do, I moved on to (hopefully) bigger and better.

Work is work and it should remain that way. Too many people are trying to build their careers on hopes and dreams of what they always wanted to be, but the pool isn't that big and not everyone is invited to it. When you make sacrifices for the thing you always wanted, you initially ignore the extra hours it takes, the less money it makes, and the lack of respect it may have for you.

I can't understand why people aren't adopting the mentality of Baby Boomer's had with "work" and "career", this new Millennial way obviously isn't working.

Kudos to Brenda's daughter, for changing things for herself and her family.

I bet I know what subsystem their user authentication runs on!!!!!!! (Something old)

Does new parent status still happen five years in...?

Irony in an audio-only app using a full-size video hero on their website.

The first time I heard this, it really struck me.

Still gives me chills a bit thinking how inexplicably I could have matched meta data to people on a list they're actively seeking.

There are many voting laws/rights regarding employment for states. If you don't like that there isn't one, or it isn't paid, or it doesn't give you enough time; well then, you should probably talk to your representatives.

http://www.findlaw.com/voting-rights-law.html

What does my boss actually know about development?

Likewise, I don't have a very common name at all, but after googling it, found many high-profile people who do. They help me hide way back in the search results.

Are we sure social networks aren't versioning almost every piece of metadata about you? After all, storage is cheap.

"You can deactivate any time you like, but you can never delete!..." (Guitar solo...)

Nice resource, I like the endorsement by GG. Will definitely be checking it out...

Props 4 da super cool naming.

Except when they version that crap.