What a sweet memory. My dad would drive me to high school and we’d sit in silence because I am NOT a morning person. I’d give up everything I own to go on just one more silent morning ride with him. He was the best. I haven’t thought of our morning drives in probably two decades. Thanks and I really miss you, Dad.

If you can see the floor before the interview, you can sometimes get a vibe about the place. I once went to interview for a sales position. Aside from the interviewer being 30 mins late, it did allow me to sit and observe the situation. I realized pretty quickly this was not going to be the place for me. Very quiet except a handful of people on the phones cold calling. Many reps trying to push for contacts on the other end, just painful to listen to. And when they’d hang up there wasn’t really any interaction with co workers. Just quiet, and then another call. It all seemed very tense. I noped out of their real quick after the five minutes the interview took. Dodged a bullet.

I had interviewed for a call center job at another place that’s as a complete 180 from that. Yes it’s a call center job so it is what it is, but there was laughter on the floor, people talking to floor managers, just a completely different vibe that was more inviting.

I’m a computer butcher. More formally, I’m a disassembler at an electronics recycling place. We mainly do computers, but we take just about anything that isn’t radioactive (aka fire alarms) or has some kind of gas in it (refrigerators and stuffs).

My average day involves taking old-ish computers apart (mostly late 00’s to mid-2010’s) and sorting the parts: CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, laptop batteries, button batteries (aka hearing aid batteries), heat sinks, plastic, power supplies, RAM, metal, wires, and what’s left tm. That’s where my job ends. Save for RAM and CPUs which get resold if possible, the parts are melted down for their metals somewhere else; mainly gold, copper, and probably steel. As for hard drives, we shred them before sending them out. Not wipe. Shred.

My main tool is a drill with a bunch of different screwdriver bits. I have two short extenders - the first one in the drill chuck, and the second one in the first. I actually have a few seconds, which I put different bits in to swap them out more easily. My other tools are a set of wire cutters, a hammer, needle nose pliers, a few hole-making drill bits, a left-turning drill bit for dealing with stripped screws, and a couple magnets I got from hard drives and speakers that I use for picking up stray screws.

Is it monotonous? Yes, but it’s enjoyable, almost like speedrunning or grinding games. It’s particularly interesting when you get a bunch of the exact same model (office buildings and such) and basically start speedrunning. I’m also able to listen to music (aka YouTube) while I work, so that helps a lot.

I’m not realllllly supposed to do this (my boss is cool with it), but sometimes I get bored and build stuff for a few minutes. I turned an old drill and other nicknacks into a classic sci-fi raygun, and attached some HDD magnets to my bench and belt for more convenient tool storage, to name a couple.

Two words: Book Club

I’ve never been in an honest to god book club outside of school and now I’m in two that are drastically different (in terms of books and membership) and wow has it been incredibly fulfilling during these past few months! I’m reading new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own, I’m consistently talking to groups of people (familiar and new) who live all around the country/world, and through listening and speaking the ideas just flow, collide, and grow. Couldn’t recommend it more! Get some friends or family together, have them invite a person or two, pick a book that sounds interesting to the group, and enjoy the ride!

I worked in a small boutique hotel with a fine dining restaurant and a gastro pub connected. You had to juggle service and reception all the time. Our hotel director felt it would be appropriate for us to wear a headset to answer calls for the hotel while serving to make sure we didn't lose out on any room sales, stating that the customer would be understand as long as we excused ourselves.

"And here we have some locally sourced braised lamb, served with vegetables grown at a farm located just north... Excuse me for a minute while i answer this call"

We had a kid in our class who was pure chaos. Came late all the time, forgot stuff, didn't do his homework, disruptive in class... you get the picture. One day he came to school over two hours late and said the bus he was on fell into a sinkhole. Everybody was like "yeah, right", until the news came in that there had indeed been a sinkhole from a tunnel construction and that indeed a bus had slipped into it. We never found out whether our classmate had actually been in it, but he swore he was.

Finally found the motorcycle I wanted years ago but could not get. It was not running, but after around dumping $3,500 into it and doing a full frame up restoration and custom job on it. I have the bike I wanted years ago, but better. Yes I did everything myself, full paint job Tank frame fenders everything. I also did a full engine rebuild, remade the wiring harness, everything was all done in house. So I put a touch over 3K into a bike that is only worth about $1,500. on a good day, but hell it is mine and I built it.

Edit: here is a link to the bike at 99.5% done. I still have a few odds and ends like I have a couple 30mm ammo cans I want to paint up and put on the4 back. And I'm redoing the reconfiguration of the foot controls to forward controls. Being 6'5 it is not very comfortable at the stock placement.

You can trade BTC more or less like a stock. But if you consider the original goal of BTC its more like holding a foreign currency - with all of the exchange rates and fees that go along with it. It's been a very slow adoption, but people are gradually warming up to the idea of BTC as a currency.

The best piece of advice for new comers is probably 1) Don't obsess over the value of BTC right now because it fluctuates like nothing you've ever seen and 2) If you do end up making money go over your taxes very carefully.

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Yes, I also encountered a similar problem. At first you might want to be a gentleman, but in the end you will be defeated by the trivialities in life.

More than 2 hours wasted on makeup

Politics and religion become one

i read book a hour everyday ，it can make me keep clear-headed