I appreciate the encouragement but I realized long ago that the adage "love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life" doesn't hold out for me. I love coding, but hate doing it as a job.
I may enjoy woodworking but would hate doing it as a means to make money. The moment it becomes the sole way of making a living I get stressed and anxious.
For me, a steady and reliable paycheck would be better than a paycheck I have to chase, even if it means I get paid more and get to be my own boss. And I don't have the capital to do the fun stuff (eg just woodworking) while someone handles the boring and annoying stuff (ie customer engagement).
The most I'd consider is selling premade/stencil/templated wood stuff on Etsy but don't think it'd bring in enough money to make it worthwhile.
There is a cross section of smart people who only learned how to do school work and got straight As but failed to understand how that school work applies to real life.
I've been in classes with people who were in AP calculus have real difficulty in shop class trying to figure out how much square footage of whatever you needed. These are people who can figure out the area under a curve but fail to calculate a 20% tip.
My therapist has been encouraging me to not neglect myself. Especially since this layoff process has been very long. So I usually devote at least a few evenings to job searching and networking and then other evenings to just things I want to do.
I'm about to get laid off and I've been thinking of returning to woodworking. I got all of the tools that I've used one or twice on specific projects. But with some time to actually dedicate to it, I might pick it back up.
Or my anxiety of not having a job will rear its ugly head and make me glued to my laptop.
Without reading this article, I already know there is a quote from his family that they are asking the public to respect their privacy during this time of grieving.
Oddly no but I suspect that it's either due to them not caring enough for one person doing this or them thinking their T&Cs will prevail in court.
For me, I don't see a loss. Either my contract doesn't hold up, which means that I only lose time and money or it does hold up in which case I lose time and they (and every other company that has clauses where you accept terms by continuing services) loses their contract terms.
If it ever came to it, I would bet the company would choose to settle rather than risk a president being set.
I suggested late in the campaign that we should Truman Show him and fly him onto the set.
I suspect that given the amount of money we're giving El Salvador, Trump or Vance will just say, "Yeah, it's part of the US now. We bought them. They even said thank you."
Shit like this is rarely enforceable but in order to find out, you need to have money.
What I like to do is clap back and send them my own terms and conditions, with the stipulation that if they don't write back, then they are accepting them.
revoke lobbying access
Me, as an American: ...I can haz? Plez?