I work for an HR compliance training company and we use a heavily modified version of Moodle in combination with our own back end. Moodle was originally chosen as an MVP for the company and it is good at playing industry-standard formats, like SCORM and AICC. But Moodle's code base is around 20 years old and very cumbersome to modify so we do plan on moving to 100% custom in the future.
I have a small filing cabinet with tabbed, labeled folders for each area of my life: house (mortgage, insurance, etc), me, my wife, car insurance, etc. It's old fashioned but it works incredibly well. Anything I may need to access away from home also gets scanned into Evernote.
I built a tool to help realtors easily create slideshows from still photos without any technical knowledge.
It hasn't really gotten a lot of traction and there are probably other markets where this might be useful, but I've been so busy with other stuff lately.
Thanks for the suggestions. I normally wouldn't talk about my personal life, but I currently have a good job and when they ask why I'm looking for a new/remote role, I tell the truth: my wife and I want to move to a small town in a remote area to be closer to family and there aren't any IT opportunities there.
Still-truthful possible answers that say the same thing without raising flags: "Cost of living where I am as increased quite rapidly, so I'm looking to relocate to a more affordable area."
"I'd like to live closer to family, and my current work situation makes that impossible."
"I'd like to move back to my hometown, but there aren't a lot of on-site opportunities there, so I'm hoping to get a remote position so that I can move back."
You get the idea. You can be vague and still truthful, so that you stay under the radar.
On a side note, it's very odd that having a wife and kids is something you now have to consider "hiding". Interesting times.
Fifteen or so years ago, it was recommended that I remove two items from my CV, my age and my marital status. It was suggested to me that both of those items would, in quite a few circumstances, put me on the automatic reject list, irrespective of what I had achieved in the past.
"we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire"
This is the part that bothers me. They have a predetermined image of who they want to hire, based on nonfunctional qualities, like race and gender. If a company said they had too many minorities working for them and the demographic they really wanted to hire was straight, white males, it seems like people would be up in arms over that. But the inverse seems acceptable.
Maybe, but the historical reality is that in many technical fields, women and minorities have been underrepresented due to deliberately exclusionary policies. There's not really a need to say, hey we want straight white dudes to apply, there's no shortage of such applicants.
Deliberately exclusionary policies? I've been around a long time. I've never known of a policy, at any place I worked, that discriminated based on race, gender, or sexual orientation.
Disclaimers: I've never been the hiring manager, so I've never read the actual policies. And there may have been discrimination that was not encoded in policies. But I have never, to my knowledge, been anywhere that had a deliberately exclusionary policy.
I worked for about 4 hours this week. Last week it was closer to zero. I get 100% of my work done; there's just not a lot to do. I suspect my job position was created just to use up a budget.
When there's no workload, impostor syndrome begins to creep in.
It's very boring and I'm actively looking for a job that will keep me busy and engaged.
