I'm slowly recovering from 4 moves in the last 4 months (and a tiny bit of homelessness). My lease expired and rent was raised too much for me to justify staying where I was. Thought I was moving into a mutually beneficial situation that didn't work out that way. This is an interesting recovery process.
I'm also trying to get back into Software after an injury that left me in a wheelchair for 7 months and walking again just as COVID hit. I got into volunteer work and eventually ended up doing COVID vaccination and testing for the few jobs I've held since. The work gap is hard to explain for me personally.
It's likely I'll end up in a low skilled position for a while as I continue the full interview processes needed now that I have a stable place to live again.
I like the question - and wish I had a more positive response to it.
Nobody will know homelessness until they experience it. My life has ended up in 2 storage units, my car, and the room I'm now renting. Don't think it's impossible that it could happen to (some of) you. Many people are much closer than they ever realize.
At this point I am still looking in software dev / database roles. I am a published author, and have been working with SQL since the 90's. I started at a dial-up ISP in 1994 when RADIUS still meant what it stands for :)
No real reason for writing this other than prompted by a question. I am likely a bit of an outlier in this situation.
Betting someone will kill themselves or go to prison is far from constructive, and is triggering to many. Go to prison is one thing. Suicide is another. It's not a joke.
EDIT: Suicide is something that's hit personally lately - my response was likely something based on that. To the person who responded - I didn't think you considered suicide a joke - and plenty do consider it. It's never a solution though. You even got an upvote.
I’m not joking. And I agree it’s a serious matter. But staring down at 40+ years, a significant number of people would kill themselves in his position.
“I’d bet” is a figure of speech. Not the stated desire to gamble.
He won't get forty years. If he ever is indicted in America, he has to be extradited from the Bahamas first. Anyone with money can delay extradition proceedings for a couple years. Maybe he'll agree to extradition on the condition that he is granted bail in America (where he'll have $200,000 a month security guards from Guidepost Solutions enforce the conditions of his bail). Then he'll have Ben Brafman or a bigger $2000/hour firm, assisted by the world class investigators from Kobre & Kim and other high priced co-counsel negotiate the best deal possible and he'll plea guilty to some counts of wire fraud. Then at sentencing we'll hear about all his great charitable deeds, there'll be 100 letters from high level businessmen, politicians attesting to his great character, how he thought he was doing the right thing but "takes responsbility" for his actions, etc. Then maybe due to the massive losses and large number of victims he gets 10-15 years which of course after the 15% time good credit becomes 8 and a half. Then maybe we'll also find out he had a substance abuse disorder which makes him eligibile for the RDAP program and accordingly a 12 month sentence reduction. He'll also be eligible through the First Step Act to earn sentence reduction through "evidence-based recidivism reduction" classes in prison. And even if there is court ordered restitution almost no one ever pays that or if they do it is only a small fraction (there are major white collar fraudsters on $200/month payment plans for $10 million restitution orders). This is assuming he even faces justice in America because there are reports of several hundred million dollars of crypto being moved out of FTX wallets which to me looks like the internet money version of a "go bag" and someone intending to flee.
Funny enough, not a nurse, but took over a 2 year "sabbatical" to do COVID testing and Vaccination. As someone who is used to making design decisions on an EHR in previous consulting engagements, it was beyond enlightening to see how things are where the rubber meets the road. Was only a Clinical Health Tech and a Medical Assistant, but frankly burned out enough to move back to software work.
Saddest thing is that I really felt I was helping, but have to admit I've become burnt out in the healthcare field - Just have $500 or so in scrubs invested...
Taking the time has hurt my career in many ways, I do believe. I have a ton of respect for many nurses, but many travelers are worse than you might imagine. Over-extended, far over-paid for their work. And really don't care about the facility they are working with (or throwing others under the bus to cover up their own mistakes)...
It was a valuable thing to experience, and I do believe I helped many people, but it's a very different thing to be at the bottom rung than the one designing and implementing various systems. God forbid someone can see a workflow issue, propose multiple solutions, and have travelers ignore it because the workflow issue makes them more money.
Not a rant against nurses at all - As someone with over 20 years in various roles of engineering, it was quite an eye opener to me.
I'm curious as to why you think the planes should be fixed, but "that's kind of not the point"? It seems to me that it's pretty far out of the frequency boundaries.
Perhaps a bad photo or low quality? The one I tested was highly compressed and far from original resolution and scored quite high. Very interested in the dataset though.
Not sure how reliable it is - although I put up one of my more favorite pictures I've shot and it earned a 7.98 and was better than 97% of photos uploaded... Interesting stuff. Could you link to the AVA dataset?
There are various types of PCR tests - I suspect you are referring to a Nasopharyngeal swab - which goes from tip of the nose to base of the ear (and it much smaller than a long Q-Tip) vs a nasal swab that usually gets both nostrils and doesn't go in nearly so far.
I've personally done Nasopharyngeal swabbing in a drive-thru. I will be supervising self-swabbing at a University starting tomorrow. They are very different things. One is a Q-Tip that only gets inserted into the nasal cavity. The tickle-your-brain swab is a different thing entirely. It requires training to do properly (enters approximately 90 degrees to your face) and while I learned how it feels from both sides, I can't imagine someone being asked to self-administer a Nasopharyngeal swab.
Going back to COVID testing for a bit before I jump back into my technical side. There is some serious need, and I have a good amount of experience last year. It's now been a 2 year swap toward volunteering and medical work. Never expected to see things spike this fast.
Looking forward to working myself out of a job and getting back to my technical roots.
