If you think you can afford to make a change and you have a clear goal, then you should take advantage of it before your life changes and you can't any longer. I had a major career change in my early to mid 30s (I'm 40 now) and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've heard a saying which I heard is an old Chinese proverb; no clue if its background is true or not, but it goes like: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is right now.
A smart phone is probably the most useful travel item, but I can also highly recommend an Aero Press for good coffee while on the road. I finally got fed up with bad hotel coffee and got one, and I am seriously impressed! Pair that with one of those small portable water heaters and you can have a good cup almost wherever you find yourself.
This might be a regional language difference, but do you mean maintaining landscaping, or growing vegetables? I agree with the previous commenter - just ignore the whole thing and mow two or three times in the summer to keep it from getting too high. There's no reason you have to grow vegetables if you don't want to, and maintaining a lawn is a huge waste of time and resources.
Definitely don't mow every week, but 2-3 times in a season might be a bit on the low side also, unless you want an extremely annoying time mowing and (if you have small dogs at least) that have a hard time maneuvering your back yard, and likely end up with nests of baby bunnies for your dogs to discover and kill (my dogs have killed at least one before we fenced off the burrow every year the past three years).
I tend to mow about once every three weeks and even that can be a bit of a pain if there's been a lot of growth.
I do like to keep a couple patches of unmowed clover or tall plants for butterflies and bees, though.
Also I have an electric mower, so I'm not (at least as far as I know, and not directly) burning fossil fuels to run the mower.
Is this no responses to 10+ applications or 10+ interviews? Sometimes companies just get a lot of responses and can't get through them all. I've helped sort through resumes at my company before and there were times we got dozens, which can be very time-consuming to review. I agree with the idea of talking to a recruiter.
0 response out of 10 is normal. Usually I get an influx of 4-6 invitation over 20 applications, or even as little as 0-2.
Recruiters give better chance to land an interview since they have direct contact with company, and afaik usually company will prefer to process recruiters candidate first.
Job application is a numbers game, just keep applying and get as many interview as you can. I thought I even got lucky landing on current job in 3 months looking.
Pull a fire alarm. Sneak through security or run past the TSA agent falling asleep near the exit of the secured area. Try to open one of those secured doors marked "alarm will sound". There's lots of ways.
Note: This is not actual advice. Not responsible for any resulting fines or prison sentences.
2. Check-in luggage with a raspberry pi inside with a bunch of electronics coming out of it and two powered 8 segment displays.
3. Do not board any of those planes.
All those planes will be delayed while they remove your checked luggage from the hold since nowadays planes don't take-off with luggage if the traveller doesn't also board. With all planes delayed you can probably choke the runways and delay all departures.
I'll take a more extreme position and say that I think this would be totally horrible! I already hate how restaurants have QR codes for you to order your food from their app/site. Have questions about something on the menu? Good luck flagging down an actual human to talk to. Are you traveling and want recommendations on where to go for cocktails later that evening? Well, you're just out of luck on that, aren't you? Talking robots would just be an expensive novelty and there's no evidence they would enhance peoples' dining experience in any way.
> recommendations on where to go for cocktails later that evening?
The 'killer app' I see here initially would be highly streamlined chatbots who specialize on providing details exactly like these and little else. City-specific dialog trees along with neighborhood & restaurant-specific ones. Things that are harder to search for on your phone.
These might be expensive to develop (one of the keys would be determining all the fields you'd want a restaurant manager/employee to fill out, and which are required vs. optional), but as in so many other cases, with scaling I could see it being popular and profitable.
As far as just having someone to talk with, though, I'm afraid chatbots will likely remain less than ideal for a while yet. "Tell me an interesting story about this place" is more of something one or two people could realistically provide several responses on for all future customers. A lot of places already print stuff like that on their menus. Of course, then you need additional humans for vetting the stories... it wouldn't be cheap, but it seems doable.
eta: You'd want to vary the voice style used if possible and/or find other ways to make a room of 20+ people interacting with these things not sound annoying as hell too, of course.
This is a pretty serious line in the sand. My company has definitely hired many people without CS degrees (myself included). What field do you work in?
The way you wrote this could come off as kind of harsh, but this is a very valid point. If you're job hunting in the United States, you'll be contacting recruiters and interacting with clients. Having good written English skills will be critically important.
