In my experience, when I had regular or constant anxiety, the nicotine crave blended with it but smoking calmed both. It is very possible that a non-nicotine method of relaxation would have also worked on both, but those are rarer and/or less quick and convenient.
Interesting. I should have written that was my experience. Anxiety isn't something I typically experience unless I've drank too much coffee or, when I was a regular smoker, needed a cigarette.
I take it you're a non-smoker now. I wonder how a vape would affect that.
Yeah after 20 years smoking, I had minor (unrelated) surgery and had to stay at home for a couple weeks, so I just cold stopped smoking and that was that. I am curious too but I refrain from experimenting.
Accept a job, NCA/NDA had a clause that gave them rights to any intellectual property I had developed in the PREVIOUS 20 years. I refused to sign. I was looking for work again after that pay period.
Sidenote: The company I now work for does business with the first company, I ended up inheriting the first companies code base written for my current company. It looks like they can't hire much beyond script kiddies.
According to the owner of this company, it takes at least 3 days for somebody with absolutely no computer skills to learn programming. Apparently its the career path of choice for telephone operators in a call center.
What is funny, after programming professionally for about 30 years, Is I want that job in the call center answering telephones. Even more ironic, it takes 1 month of intensive training to do that job.
Having worked in a call center for 3 years I can assure you it doesn't take 1 month of intensive training. It takes a variable amount of time to get up to speed depending on how much you are asked to think.
In some call centers, you will be following a script about 90% of the time and that takes very little training. In others you actually have to think and troubleshoot issues, those take a bit more time to get up to speed on.
All that being said, I can assure you that you do not want to work at a call center. I'd take whatever programming job you currently have over the call center I last worked at. For whatever reason, call centers attract the worst kinds of managers in this day and age.
What I see more and more is an expectation that, since computers themselves have consistently gotten easier to use with the introduction of things like mice and touch-interfaces, plug-and-play and graphical interfaces, programming them can be assumed to have gotten proportionally easier. Unfortunately for everybody involved, it's actually the other way around - as computers have gotten to be easier to use, they've become _harder_ to effectively program, since user's expectations keep growing exponentially. So you have bosses who expect everything to take a few hours at most because, "it's not like I'm asking you to put together one of those incomprehensible command-line thingies that you have to type into, I'm just looking for a normal drag-and-drop reactive cross-platform cloud-based application!"
> I want that job in the call center answering telephones
Having worked in a call center, I can say with roughly 99% certainty that you do not want that job. It's got to be one of the most mind-numbing, soul-crushing occupations on this planet.
If I could retire today, I'd probably go back to selling video games in Best Buy.
Last month I was told I'd be docked a portion of my COLA because my time estimates were always longer than my actual work time. This was because management NEVER, EVER gives me anything close to a specification to estimate properly from. So, I tend over estimate.
Looked at another way, I was docked because I consistently outperform estimated time to delivery, which means the company actually makes more money off my work because we charge our customers for development work.
So, what do I think of performance appraisals at my work place? I'm actively looking for other work.
I also believe that performance appraisals, for anything but bottom rung employees, are currently done one way only. They should be done from both perspectives. The managed employees reporting to the managers boss. This way, ineffectual middle managers can be disposed of.
Makes you wonder, too - why do we put up with this? I thought we were supposed to be hard to come by and "in demand". Why do we allow them to kick us in the teeth like they do?
The issue in my case is that the opportunities are limited based on location. Workers in this town should be making MORE than average owing to lack of benefits that a big city has.
Theirs a reason they pay as little as they do. The 'good' talent leaves for higher paying jobs elsewhere. It's a self perpetuating problem.
I read an article just the other day about a group of IT workers who attempted to form a union - that didn't go well. I'd be all in.
Cost of Living Allowance. It's basically the bare minimum of raises that one can get. If that's all the company was planning on giving you to start with, then you're working for a crappy company.
Yup, winnings under $10G are not reported to revenue Canada. Want to launder money? Go into a casino and have a good time for a few hours. Do not spend more than a couple of hundred.
Revenue Canada asks where the money came from? "I 'won' it at the casino". Rinse and Repeat.
Why would you (a) pay a margin to the house an (b) process such piddly amounts when you can clear 100's of thousands or millions in one go, plus make substantial return on your "investment"?
A) I wasn't referring to the methods in the article, instead, from the previous poster. B) The way I mentioned, is 100% legal, C) its also useful to mere mortals.
I usually use a date as a soft delete. If it's non-null, its deleted, and, you get to record the actual date of deletion.
I've never found it to be a problem. In fact, I find it's more of a problem to physically delete. You just have to design that way from the get go. Not added on after you've realized ppl leave.
Yeah, I find the sentiment that this is hard to implement without it being YOOGE tech debt odd. There are so many ways to get it out of the way, including just querying through a view if you can't come up with an app-side solution.
The technical debt might be proportional to how many ad-hoc queries you have buried in various modules before you realize that some things do need to be deleted as of a particular date. But as you indicate, with a real DBMS, naive queries can just be pointed at a view.
Also, how to deal with down the road queries wrt; churn when you have deleted the data. I'm calling self inflicted technical debt because of shortsightedness or, dare I say it, lack of acumen. :D
Living in a small northern Ontario town, I wish we had Lyft or Uber here. Instead, just taxi's (or family) and public transport.
Our public transport is based on a center hub topology with the hub being downtown. So if my kid wants to take the bus to work, about kilometer away, it takes 45 minutes half of which is in the wrong direction and involves at least one transfer. Oddly, it takes even longer to get home.
Yes, I do most days, here it's usually below freezing for most of December - February. Yesterday it was -20C (-4F) with windchill. Just get a good coat, pair of boots, hat and gloves and it's fine.
Sure, I walked 30min everyday to grad school in Chicago weather. Unless it was pouring rain (ie. not freezing) then I would occasionally take the bus part of the way.
Even more ridiculous, it doesn't remind me when my phone or credit cards are due when they notify me.