Then youâre doing it wrong. If youâre good at automation you can get promoted readily.
But hey if you hate Excel that much why not find another type of work. Be a carpenter. Be a tour guide. No one is forcing you to work an Excel-only office job.
With the jobmarket the way it is? If they donât promote you, move on. Iâm not saying itâs easy and of course there are people in tough spots for different reasons. But itâs more in your hands than many people think.
Historically awful? Donât get me wrong, the advice is still solid, but this was a weird way to preface it - itâs the hardest time in my 10-year career to âjust find a new jobâ.
Honestly, just donât go to that part of the Internet unless you absolutely have to. YouTube is a great resource for information, but it sucks as entertainment.
That sounds like a you problem, honestly. Tons of great channels out there for basically any interest. Do you just, like, only ever look at the front page without logging in? Like just at the absolute lowest common denominator clickbait stuff?
How did you get that from that? You said it sucks for entertainment, I said it doesnât and you get from that that I canât fathom not being on YouTube 24/7?
Because the uploaders are doing it for free and itâs been working the way it currently has been, free for 20 years.
If YT had made it their monetization scheme to charge users for an account - by all means. They did not, they set up the expectation of their product that it is free*.
with ads, which they show on repeat and do nothing but waste the users time. Thereâs no reason why we canât use an adblock. If the uploader or YT wants compensation, they have ways of obtaining that, either via donations, patronship, or premium accounts.
There is no reason that YouTube should suddenly be for pay or forced ads to use it. If they wanted that, they should have started out like that. If they wanted to not run at a loss, they should have planned for that. They did not, and itâs not on the users to suddenly make up for that shortsightedness.
Tl;Dr, while you can set up a foundation and decide to change it decades later doesnât mean anything. The expectation from the users has already been set.
But YouTube DOES have advertising and they have had advertising for a decade, everyone that uploads content knows this and accepts it and in many cases is able to monetize their own content. You are arguing that you are entitled to use third party software to personally avoid ads, and your only argument for it is that youâve been doing it a long time.
Then google should have done a better job vetting the ads so they donât have malicious redirects or malware so that users wouldnât feel the need to run adblocks to be safe.
In fact, Google as the most pervasive advertiser should probably have done that for all ads. I imagine if they werenât so terrible, ad-blocks wouldnât be so prevalent.
It shouldnât necessarily be free, but the information about whether or not Iâve seen their ad is privileged. AdBlock detection is an invasion of my privacy and therefore AdBlock blocking must be circumvented.
Very young humans do not understand the concept of object permanence. They actually think youâre gone, when they canât see you. That is also why you can sometimes see little children closing their eyes, when they are playing hide and seek.
I had one of the old fashioned distorted text ones the other day, but instead of something like âplease enter the text aboveâ it just said âare you human?â next to the text box. Naturally, I typed âyesâ but that turned out to be the wrong answer.
You forgot the endless popups in the 2000s, which led to every browser integrating a popup blocker since then (and which often fail to stop actual malicious popups, no less)
Yes, in these years are a lot of pop ups, pop unders among other crap in some pages, but normally in most pages there was, apart of an ocassinal Banner not much else to justify an adblocker. But nowadays, between ads, clickbaits, cookie consent, adblocker detections and ant-adblocker, paywalls and other shit like these, you need a lot of extensions and scripts if you donât want that the page fills your browser and HD with all kind of PUPs and unwanted scripts, apart of an ad/trackerblocker. Itâs a cats and mouse game between companies which want to track and profile you with all kind of dirty tricks, and the user and devs continuos searching contrameasures to show them the middle finger.
Once I was using a girlfriendâs laptop and I told her very casually âIâm adding an adblockâ when she replies me âno donât block them, I like them because sometimes I find nice offers in the adsâ and I froze. I wasnât expecting that and I was so baffled like âwhat do you mean you like them, how do you live seeing more ads than what you originally came forâ lol
Trades are always hiring. My phone says I walk like 5 miles a day just working in our factory. I use my brain, body, problem-solving skills, and have real conversations with my coworkers daily about how to go about the work and solve problems, or just pass the time when weâre not as busy. I learn new things constantly and enjoy working with my hands and making my work look beautiful, which can be surprisingly deep in the field of industrial electrical work.
Just know that if anyoneâs interested in this kinda thing, make sure you have some thick skin and maybe leave a terminally online brain at home
Yes. Specifically industrial control and automation, which is apples to oranges to commercial and industrial building power distribution for example.
I worked for GE as a grunt first building inverters for solar fields and power plants. Then I did field service for them in the American southwest when they shut down the factory and sent all the work to GE Germany and Japan.
Then when all of the re-work we were doing was done, I passed on traveling indefinitely and came back home to Pittsburgh. I got hired opening a new factory for a company that makes machinery used for plastics recycling and worked there for close to a decade as their only electrical technician. That shop holds a deep place in my heart for the connections and friendships I made there. But I saw us getting slow as fuck and everyone quitting and decided to switch jobs this year for a better paycheck and closer commute. Now I work solely in testing and do a bit of design work and drafting.
The plumber who did work in my kitchen made a fantastic job of the under-sink pipework. Everything curved and lined up just so, little screw valves instead of clunky taps, it's lovely. It's hidden away behind cleaning products, but I know it's there and it makes me smile. Thank you to tradespeople who enjoy their work!
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