I've sort of been worried about this at my new software dev position but I work at a small enough company that I think as long as I get results they don't give a single shit, but it's still in the back of my mind
At the moment I open wordpad on my laptop, put a nail clippers on the keyboard with my wallet on top of it and it will keep me active in Microsoft Teams as long as I want.
So I once made the mistake permitting a client to store some (say a dozen) boxes of financial records in my home for a couple of weeks. By ‘permit’, I mean they just dumped them there, and I didn’t physically restrain them from leaving.
Haha...yeah. I'm an academic at heart and my first few years at running a business were a complete disaster. I've since graduated into being a mediocre businessperson, which is probably about as far as I intend to get.
Maybe someday, but it's exhausting. I would probably be much happier if I just closed shop and went to do a PhD. I might even be able to afford to, in a couple of years.
Then maybe teach engineering in some unknown university in the countryside. Or run a machine shop that helps artists make things. Or just build alarmingly large robots for no reason at all.
If only everyone thought like you. I don't mind being treated like I'm invisible, some folks are just busy or tired. But some folks actively spend time and energy trying to be rude.
My kids were definitely learning to read and write int kindergarten. They were able to read basic sentences (like, "look at the cat") by the end of the year.
Maybe that's a cultural difference. How old would the kid be?
The kindergarten my younger brother went to like more than a decade ago didn't have backboards and stuff, at least none that I remember. Kids would learn to read and write in the "0th" class of the primary school by the age of 6.
I will say that when I was 5, we were learning the alphabet and stuff, but I certainly didn't start any reading until 1st grade. It seems like some stuff starts early now.
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