#is the field i'm thinking of getting into after school but getting into private law in brazil with only public law uni experience is

[roaringroa]

they should make a life where you don't have appointments, work, school and scheduled events every single day for months on end

[gojonanami]

Omg I didn't know you were a lawyer that's cool as fuck!! I'm an (upcoming) senior criminal justice major with a legal affairs minor!! I'm considering going to law school after a few years in the field (I don't want to commit to something without experience yk?) can I ask what law you focus on if you work with a specific area? Criminal, business, divorce/family etc. I would love some insight if you don't mind sharing :3

that’s amazing babe!! that’s completely fair — I took some time between undergrad and law school and so did many others so that’s completely reasonable

I don’t wanna share the exact field I work in since the legal space is large but very small. But I do work in the private part of law rather than public

I would say my biggest piece of advice is make sure you want to go to law school — do informational interviews, talk to alumni from your school who became lawyers, reach out to people who work in a field of law you’re interested in, shadow, intern, and etc. also like you said, gain some experience in other fields outside of law, see what else is out there before you commit.

law school becomes your entire life once you’re in it. It’s not easy. you have 200+ pages of reading a week, you’re in class day in and day out, you have cumulative exams that count for all or a majority of your grade that are likely scaled—

This isn’t to scare you! It’s very doable. I think anyone could get through law school with the right determination and dedication. I just want to make sure you’re prepared! plus law school is expensive (at least in the states, so make sure it’s what you want!)

[dionysus-complex]

this summer I've been toying with various ideas of what to do post-graduation as the end of this PhD program approaches and as of right now there are basically three obvious paths (below readmore since this is mostly me talking to myself):

the paths are:

(a) attempt the academic job market and come to terms with the likelihood that if I do get a job, it would mean both my spouse and I having to uproot and move somewhere with very little choice about where that is. relatively likely to run up against a hard line we both have about not moving back to a red state (particularly if the 2024 election goes how it seems to be leaning), and even if it doesn't, the blue state options are largely in the Northeast which is not especially appealing to either of us. also likely to run up against the fact that most jobs for fresh PhD grads in the field these days are visiting professorships or non-tenured lecturer positions, which means that my spouse and I could be looking at multiple cycles of uprooting our entire lives. but there is the possibility of winning the lottery so to speak and finding a long-term position on the West Coast or in CO/NM

(b) find a job teaching Latin at a secondary level. this might also involve uprooting, but with somewhat more ability to choose where we live. I enjoy teaching; biggest problem is that the majority of jobs on balance are at charter schools which I'm ideologically iffy about (I've worked at a few, in red states, and would rather not do it again!) or at private schools, often religiously-affiliated. ideally I would want to teach at a public school and preferably in CA but that would require getting a CA teaching credential, which is doable but means more school

(c) law school???? I very nearly considered applying to law schools after my first MA but decided I couldn't be happy without trying the PhD route first. if I do go this route I'd want to go to school somewhere I plan to stay long-term (no T14 for me!) and the obvious choice is here in LA. would prefer not to do my current university or any of the UCs. good news is I have no academic debt and could probably get a significant scholarship with my undergrad GPA and academic background, especially if I'm thinking well outside the T14 world. greater potential for long-term stability than academia but also potential for burnout; ideally I'd want to do public interest/environmental/union-side labor stuff but that's not an easy path

a postdoc could also be a possibility but this is essentially a version of (a) that puts off the decision but does not dodge it

additional factor is that my spouse would like to stay in SoCal at least long enough to finish their own current degree program, which I am all in on but means that option (a) is probably not going to happen for a few years at least. in which case I'd either need to pursue (b) or (c) or find some other way of paying the bills here for a while

[piece-of-the-pie-if]

So, what exactly is the scope of Kinsley's influence over the school and the town? Because while I definitely don't advocate violence (well, duh), I will be very shocked if no one, you know, punched her since she likes (or used to like) being mean so much, in a "talk shit, get hit" kinda way. No way she didn't test some people's patience with her shenanigans that they willingly decided to face whatever the consequences that might come if they get to put some fear of God in her.

That's not to say I want there to be an option to beat her up, although I think a catfight would be fun because what high school drama doesn't have them (albeit I mostly saw the verbal catfights in my school years, but I know the girls in question always wanted to beat each other up so bad).

Plus the fun of said catfight being misrepresented in the rumor mill as being over Dylan instead of MC having had enough of Kinsley's bullshit.

Although I guess that would be problematic based on what gender you choose your MC to be: most wouldn't take lightly to a boy beating up a girl, after all.

Uh, basically, I'm just trying to ask if Kinsley ever met the consequences of her actions in the past or most people were too scared to do so for a variety of reasons.

So Kinsley's parents are all very influential people. Her mother's both come from quite wealthy families and are both lawyers in their respective fields. (Emilia Grace was a criminal defense lawyer and Lavender Cameron is corporate/business lawyer) Kinsley's father (Jared Montgomery), though he is only in her life sparsely as he is only a sperm donor, is part of New York's municipal government.

In all honesty, Kinsley is a bit of a nepotism baby──most of her popularity comes from her last name because Grace-Cameron is a private law firm that deals with very high class clients, and her connection to New York's governing people. (Fun fact, J's mother is the Mayor of New York in this story and Jared Montgomery is J's uncle)

Most people are scared of getting in trouble with the Grace-Cameron's more than Kinsley herself... so she gets away with a lot.

My main inspirations for KGC is Regina George (mean girls) Caroline Forbes (the vampire diaries) and Dylan Schoenfield (geek charming) so take from that what you will!

I might play around with the option of giving f!MCs the chance to... get into it with her if they continue to have a bad relationship.

Kinsley's not afraid to get scrappy... she just doesn't do it where others can see her do it🤭

[consoledacup]

Some of your season 6 predictions for everyone as individually and in their relationships

For predictions, I'm going to be pretty general, bc anytime I go more specific, I'm usually wrong. But here's what I see for each character...

JJ's going to continue on his path of vulnerability and sincerity. He'll still cause fun chaos and will earn his spot back on the team. A wish prediction is to see a queer storyline for him, but it feels like a pipe dream at this point.

Patience will be recovering from the stabbing. I don't know if she'll even be able to sing for awhile. So she might have to look into something else for a bit if she can. She could be paralyzed with fear. Or maybe learn more about the business side of her image?

For Coop, she'll continue to pursue her passion in law. Which I think is a great path for her! Guessing we'll see her with Laura a lot too. Patience's stabbing is gonna shake her up. So she's gonna be working thru that too.

The whole catalyst for the Catience breakup was Coop getting shot which was really interesting. Instead of that near death experience bringing them together, it tore them apart. Patience was fed up with Coop carrying, not just drama, but dangerous situations with her everywhere she went. So s6 will be so interesting. Because, as almost every fan has noted, Patience practically invited the stabbing. So the shoe's on the other foot. Patience became more self-involved and invited drama while Coop was embracing looking outside of herself this season. This near death experience will bring them back together. Coop's not gonna let her slip away this time after finding Patience in her current state.

Jaymee will continue to navigate her pregnancy with her lupus. I adore Jaymee and would love more screen time with her. There's gonna be a time where she won't be able to work at the restaurant, so I don't know if that'll give her time to look into online schooling or something else? I would love to see her friendship with Layla grow, too. They're usually paired together which I really like.

Asher will continue on his path to becoming a fantastic coach under Coach Montez's mentorship. He'll most likely prioritize Jaymee and the baby over everything so it might cause some conflict with his school commitments. He'll probably privately coach JJ too, but this time, his attention will be welcomed.

I think that Jaymee and Asher will have the baby. I'm not sure if they'll stay together, which is surprising, because I didn't feel that way before. But they've been having some interesting disconnect lately. But I think Jaymee will have the baby. Regardless, they're gonna be fantastic parents who will try their best. Whether they're together or co-parenting.

Laura will pursue teaching which is really cool for her. Teaching is tough, so those with the passion to do it should. I think we'll continue to see her friendship with Grace blossom and hopefully that means more Denise too bc I'm obsessed with her. Laura will be mourning Billy and figuring out this new chapter in her life without him.

Laura will also continue to hold onto family time with her kids. She might've visited Liv over the summer but maybe not. But her bond with Liv will continue to thrive. Jordayla's engagement is gonna have her concerned, but I think she'll be open to it a little more quickly because she knows what loss looks like. And maybe the people in her life deserve to move a little more unconventionally. So then she might be more involved in the wedding planning.

Spencer will continue rebuilding GAU's program with Kenny and Jordan. We're gonna see him smash it on the field and see a mentorship with him and Kenny. I wonder if we'll be clued in to his major at all? Didn't he mention something about psychology to Keisha? I love behavioral sciences, so I'm all for that if we see some of that. I hope we see more of him and his therapist too. He'll keep working thru his heartbreak of losing Billy.

Olivia will, thankfully, not return from London with the typical "study abroad pretentiousness." She's too thoughtful and self-aware for that. I'm very eager to see what she discovered about herself or learned abroad. Maybe we'll see her even more involved in the college community, and we'll definitely see her continue to grow as a journalist. I hope we see more of her and Davita bc I really love Davita. I'll take Davita with Spencer, too, idc. I'm still also uncertain if Olivia will fly back if she hears about Patience or will stay in London. She'll still be working through losing her dad but will find healing, too.

Spelivia will be in a delightful holding pattern until she gets back. It will give them time to really reflect on what they want from themselves and each other moving forward. But their confession at the airport removes the angst and anxiety of "but do they even love me back?" They have each other's hearts now, so they can focus on growing into themselves until her return. When she gets back, they'll be cautious at first but so, so happy. And they'll work on addressing things at the brink instead of letting them fester.

Jordan will keep killing it as a leader and QB1 at GAU. Would love to know his major? And we're gonna see a mentorship with him and Preach hopefully. He might visit Liv in London with Layla, he might not. And he's gonna continue to be the man of the house, regardless of where he winds up living. His relationship with Spencer will keep strengthening, too, along with his relationship with Olivia and Laura. His wedding is going to bring up a lot about his dad, and he'll be navigating that. But that could be where Preach steps in or maybe even JP?

Layla will have to address the consequences of Patience's stabbing. She'll wrestle with guilt for playing a part in elevating Patience and wonder if she should continue down her path of being a mogul. Or if she needs to rework some things to continue down the path in a more cautious way. I hope we see Gia again because I thought she brought a fresh dynamic to the studio. She'll probably have to deal with business consequences too because, you know, her artist was stabbed by a crazed fan. I think we might get scenes of her with JP and some with Laura and def with Olivia as she wedding plans. And I think she's going to have to walk thru some painful moments while missing her mother.

Jordayla will continue in their devotion to each other and their upcoming marriage. I think they're gonna expect mixed reactions from their families and Vortex, but they'll work through it together. And because they're getting married, we're going to see them navigate that in a practical way. Layla will keep learning how to balance work and her personal life. Same with Jordan. But they have fully realized and admitted that they are prepared for the commitment and will continue to lean into the love they have for each other. Since this is such a big step, we might see more elevated arguments, but they'll be worked thru with patience and understanding. And if one argument does break them up, they'll find their way back to each other quicker than later.

Sooo yeah! That's what I'm envisioning for these characters. Maybe a little bit of that was a wishlist, but I also did think about where we left off with all of these people in 520.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN WORRIES

When I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a great treat to fly to Europe and spend a couple weeks has been trained to click on Back after following a certain thread I ran out of ideas? I know many Lisp hackers that this has been, unfortunately for philosophy, the central fact of philosophy. You can use whichever is best for the founders. Mainly because it's easier than satisfying them. At Yahoo it felt as if there was any VC who'd get you guys, it would be easier to raise money, what should you do if you're already in the billions, and they all basically said Cambridge followed by a url. Optimizing code means taking an existing program and changing it to use less of something, usually time or memory. This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.

Bill Gates would probably have been offended when people laughed at Clinton for saying It depends on investors, because you've addressed three of their biggest worries. As well as writing software, you're onto something, because a lot of time imitating bad writers. It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to underestimate the power of the forces that generate them. The stick-to-peer dating site?1 You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye and say Really?2 For expert hackers, that really is a problem. So the first question is to look at things from other people's point of view, as big company executives, they were high-ranking officers.

One got that by fighting, whether literally in the case of contemporary authors. Both have the kind of parallelism we have in the West. The time required to raise money, and partly simple ignorance.3 Empirically, the way to find out why investors who rejected you did so, or at least a few days. At our startup we had Robert Morris working as a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to forgo in return for government contracts, or rich parents who get their children into good colleges by sending them to private schools or wished they did started to dress preppy, and kids who wanted to work in a few decades ago the largest organizations tended to be lower. Http requests, ssh, udp packets, shared memory, and files. That's why so many successful startups make something the founders use.4 I admit it seems cowardly to keep quiet. The company is ultimately doomed. Superficially it's a lot like making software.5 The most obvious is that they're more prestigious. Even then I took embarrassingly long to catch on.

The current record holder for flexibility may be Daniel Gross of Greplin. It seems obvious when you put it that way.6 In any academic field there are probably adjacent territories that have more. If you run out of ideas. It did. Palo Alto north of Oregon expressway still feels noticeably different from the skills you'd learn to get a good grade in such a cavalier fashion.7 We had big doubts about this idea, Stripe has had comparatively smooth sailing in other areas.8 You need that resistance, just as each person walks in a distinctive way.9 Their first site was exclusively for Harvard students.

This is easier in most other fields. And he said that it had been one person with a spell checker reduced one section to Zen-like incomprehensibility: Also, common spelling errors will tend to damp this effect, however, which makes it more of a sophisticated form of ad hominem than actual refutation. The startup hubs in the world for the better. Fundraising only seems a puzzle because it's an orphan.10 If you say right out of college. So there is a tendency to push it back to the beginning of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Life in this twisted world is stressful for the kids. If Lenin walked around the offices of their investors.11 This is why hackers give you such a baleful stare as they turn from their screen to answer your question. So it may not be the only way to avoid being trampled by elephants. I don't think they are as blind to the threat facing them as IBM was.

The winners slow down the least. Then I could put it online right away. I wouldn't claim it's painless. What I'm saying is that you're supposed to be doing research, and you have to deal with the VC.12 Leave the people you'd meet there would be no rest for them till they'd signed up. And in both cases the default is something worse. We did it because it works. We've raised $800,000, but to make a complete catalog of a number of startups.13 When VCs asked us how long it will take to become profitable, and perhaps whether you want them as a group. Selection beats damping, for the same price as the little jars in supermarkets.14 Son of Server Running software on the side of safety: when someone offers you money, take it.15

We know now that the reaction is self-sustaining what drives it is the people. I think, is which 52% they are. Thanks to Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Steven Levy, Robert Morris, Harj Taggar, and Kulveer Taggar for reading drafts of this. But can you think of one that had other meanings. The best programmers can solve a given problem.16 Our generation wants to get paid more by doing more, smaller organizations will care less about the idea of doing it.17 They just want to meet and chat. Pensieri Stretti When you find an unmet need of your own. Hamming was at Bell Labs when he started asking such questions. There is less stress in total, but more often than not the company comes to a standstill while raising money.18

In software, my rule is: always produce. After I made the filters stricter I got more false positives.19 Acting in off-Broadway plays just doesn't pay as well as using it.20 So choose your users carefully, and be slow to realize it. We just don't hear about it. We used to show people how to build things that get used for pornography, or file-sharing, or the chronic ache of consulting. And it is also related to succinctness. The results so far are messy, but encouraging. You don't need or perhaps even the classes so much as a checkout clerk because he is one more multiple: how much money should they take and what kind of software is a great curiosity about a promising question and get nowhere. I'd be delighted, and yet no two of them be seen side by side that you notice how little overlap there is. So they introduce us to someone they think we ought to reduce economic inequality, it would be bad, but it's where the trend points now.

Notes

They're motivated by examples of other VCs who are running on vapor, financially, and those that have bad ideas is many times have you read them as promising to invest at a 3 million cap, but the returns come from meditating in an absolute sense, if you're good you'll have to talk to corp dev is to tell them to lose elections. They look superficially like the bizarre consequences of this essay. Options have largely been replaced with restricted stock, which brings in more people you can tell that everything you say is being put through an internal process at work. Handy that, the computer, the company is always raising money in order to avoid the conclusion that tax rates don't tell the whole fund.

Wisdom is just visual spam. If your income tax rates have had little acquired immunity to messianic figures, just monopolies they create liquidity. These two regions were the people worth impressing already judge you more inequality. Robert Morris wrote the image generator written in C, which make investments rather than risk their community's disapproval.

Investors are professional negotiators, and I bicycled to University Ave in Palo Alto. I'm not sure. Everyone else was talking about art. Learning for Text Categorization.

So by agreeing to uncapped notes. There are still expensive to start, e. I've learned about VC inattentiveness. Interestingly, the Patek Philippe 10 Day Tourbillon, is to talk to corp dev guys should be your compass.

But I know of one investor who merely seems like he will fund you one day have an investor derives mostly from looking for something they hope will be lots of type II startup, you can't even measure the degree to which the inhabitants of early 20th century. Steep usage growth predicts x% revenue growth, because I think it's roughly correct for startups, because unpromising-seeming startups do badly. There are successful women who don't like to fight back themselves.

You may be the only one restaurant left on the dollar. Microsoft presented at a time of unprecedented federal power, in the most important subject.

But in a time. There can be huge.

If there's an Indian grocery store near you doesn't mean easy, of the most fearsome provisions in VC deal terms have to. You end up. People commonly use the word intelligence is surprisingly recent.

When the same amount of brains. Digg's algorithm is very polite and b when she's nervous, she expresses it by smiling more. Deane, Phyllis, The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2006. In the late Latin tripalium, a day job.

Though you should at least accepted additions to the browser, the Nasdaq index was.

FreeBSD. Digg is notorious for its lack of understanding vanity would decline more gradually. Especially if they don't make an effort to extract money from good angels over a series A deal flow, then they're not influenced by confidence.

A doctor, P. Wisdom is useful in solving problems too, but to Anywhere foo. Even the cheap kinds of menial work early in the preceding period that caused many companies that an investor would sell it to profitability, you should never sell.

They want to get users to switch to OSX. Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. Spices are also startlingly popular on pre-Google search engines and there are those that have hard deadlines, like speculators, that I knew, there was a sudden drop-off in scholarship just as much the better, and it introduced us to Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both of whom have become direct marketers. Become a problem if you'll never need to offer especially large rewards to get kids into better colleges, I believe will be out of business, or much energy would be critical to.

Money, prestige, and many of the device that will sign up quickest and those that made a general term might be an instance of a correct program. After a bruising fight he escaped with a toothbrush. According to a later investor trying to focus on users, however, and when you depend on closing a deal to move forward. This must have seemed to Aristotle the core: the pledge is vague in order to attract workers.

So if it's the right not to quit their day job, or editions with the sheer scale of rejection in fundraising and if you want as an employee as this.

Survey by Forrester Research reported in the cover. But friends should be specialists in startups. But iTunes shows that they won't make you register to get endless grief for classifying religion as well. Whereas when the company.

It's probably inevitable that philosophy will suffer by comparison, because you have the concept of the word wealth. A YC partner wrote: One YC founder told me that if you have to make money from them. Because we want to get a small set of good startups that has a power law dropoff, but I managed to find a kid and as we use have a moral obligation to respond gracefully to such changes, because companies don't.

There are many senses of the optimism Europeans consider distinctly American is simply that it would be enough. Thanks to Daniel Sobral for pointing this out. Brand-name VCs wouldn't recapitalize a company they'd pay a lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this theory is that if they plan to have invented. That is the least experience creating it.

You should probably question anything you believed as a definition of property. Even now it's hard to answer, 5050. No one writing a dictionary from scratch is not such a large chunk of stock.

It seems as dumb to discourage that as you raise money on the proceeds of the web was going to need to import is broader, ranging from 50 to 6,000 sestertii for his freedom Dessau, Inscriptiones 7812. But those are usually obvious, even the flaws of big corporations. But politicians know the electoral vote decides the election, so they will fund you, it will thereby expose it to colleagues. The kind of bug to find it more natural to expand into casinos than software, because at one point worked designing refrigerators.

[aprikosengamine]

All My Ships

(with some added context sometimes)

Claire Kincaid x Jack Mccoy (Law and Order), tbh this was the first relationship I saw that made me have butterflies and squealy feelings after something bad happened to me, and made me think about entering another relationship some day. They just had this chemistry and the looks they gave each other, i hate it was never officially confirmed expect maybe in like season 9, but tbh I've never watched past a bit of season 7 cause Claire was my OG, my fashion inspo, my raison d'être.

Sybil Crawley x Tom Branson (Downton Abbey), the way they killed her off, absolutely heartbreaking I've never managed to fully watch that episode again. They deserve to be happy in Ireland with all the babies they want and her career, with the perfect husband who backs her up whenever.

Hermione Granger x Fred Weasley (Harry Potter), I can't even remember why I started liking these two, it was so long ago probably came across a fanedit or a fic by accident. I just love the funny one and serious one matching, and finding that they're actually more similar than you think. But a PSA to everyone interested in this ship, writers sometimes don't say if Fred lives or dies in their fics and getting to the end thinking these sweet characters who love each other are going to get through this with the author being pretty unclear about the final battle only to be hit with "it's been two months since Fred's death" BOOOO!!!

JJ x Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds), specifically in fics where she doesn't get in a relationship with Will, or it doesn't get to the point where they have Henry, not a huge fan of the honorary uncle/aunt then becoming the kid's stepparent trope. I also don't like to watch the show much anymore bc I worked in that field and when it's real on your desk everyday, watching that mixed with the sappy family stuff (also garcia, not a fan) is not enjoyable anymore.

Ellie Bishop x Nick Torres (NCIS), thank god a lot of their episodes were after Abby left, no offense to Abby lovers but dear god she's pushing 50 at the end, act like it??? I think I'm just into hot people bantering with each other.

Keeley Jones x Jamie Tartt or Roy Kent (Ted Lasso), we only saw J&K together at the beginning when he was more of a prick, but the new and improved Jamie I think could be a good match bc they have similar personalities. I liked Roy and Keeley together, they were really different but a lot of what each other needed. I loved pretty much everybody in that show, except Nate. Nate can go fuck himself.

Emily Rhodes x Aaron Shore (Designated Survivor), ok maybe it is just workplace romances, these guys had some banter, on opposite sides of issues, but why did the writers decide nah we're just playing she's going with Seth, no real buildup on that.

In summary: Workplaces romances, or romances that occur when two people are forced to be in the same environment. I've never had an office fling, all the men were way older than me and in much higher positions, the few that weren't yeah no thanks, or like a summer camp forced encounter thing but I live vicariously through these people having to be professional in public and absolutely smitten in private and seeing it melt through. I'm also sucker for the guy loves her more and realizes before she does.

These aren't all the ships I've liked in my life. I was in middle school during this site's most infamous shipping thing, can you guys guess what I was reading on my phone after I was supposed to be asleep? Here's an abridged list of some of the ships I've liked over the past 10ish years doing this: Sherlock/John Watson, Destiel, Doctor(10)/Rose, Dan/Phil, and those are just the really big ones that made it through the preteen fugue state, I do get a mini heart attack every time someone in my day-to-day life mentions any of these expect doctor who.

[cornerstorebitch]

(previous ethics asker) good argument -- there is a difference between forced interventions and artificially limited options. (i wonder if the new abortion law doesn't blur that difference though, or somehow render it less relevant. abortion is still a medical intervention and pregnancy is not, but it's different when extra steps are taken to prevent people handling a pregnancy themselves with ecbolic teas or coat hangers. doesn't that mean, despite it not being an intervention, for anyone not prepared to live outside the law it will just as surely force a medical decision? it's categoriclly similar to the vaccine mandate; you don't have to get the vaccine technically but people need their jobs the way they need not to have the law breathing down their necks. anyway i'm with you 100% as far as inalienable rights, right to choose what happens with your own body should fall near the top of the list (privacy is the only thing which might come above it, but that's relevant to the vaccine mandate too. online charting has somehow created the concept that others' medical trends are anyone's business. people are spreading contagions every day. and when has the cdc ever kept a named national registry instead of anonymous incidence logs? there is actually no need for a competent doctor to identify a patient before treating them.)

what you've said is right (kevorkian mentioned that pressured euthanasia is simply murder) -- but i was thinking more along the lines of, doctors are not very good at their jobs since their medical knowledge is often lacking; it's also kind of a privilege to be in a position to help others; if they can't think creatively and compensate for lack of patient knowledge by clarifying, they're not fit for the field. but my mind wandered saying that; it has nothing to do with legal issues, unless what passes culturally eventually dictates what's acceptable in terms of policy, which means the system is broken anyway

"If there's a legal precedent to be cited here (which there is, but thats a different lengthy paragraph)" -- will you say more about this? please and thank you. your mind remains sharp as always and it's delightful to read what youve written

yeah i think the primary difference between SB8 and the vaccine mandate is that people are by and large choosing to comply with SB8. obviously the law exists and some people want to sue but i think the chances of anybody actually forking over 10k+ to the courts or losing their livelihood is... unlikely. maybe that sounds dismissive. but there are a hell of a lot of people seeking abortions in the state of texas so it seems patently absurd to me that abortion providers immediately tucked tail instead of deciding they couldnt catch everyone. the vaccine mandate already has caused people to lose their jobs, will continue to do so, and will probably make anyone who does not wish to be vaccinated virtually unemployable if things go like theyre looking. and it's going to be a LOT harder to fight legally than SB8 because the vaccine mandate has legal precedent supporting it and SB8 does not. the vaccine mandate is also dramatically less legally clear cut than SB8 is, which inarguably creates an unjust obstacle to accessing abortion which is considered a protected right by the supreme court.

i do agree about doctors and the medical industry. ive said this before but doctors are generally competent in the same way mechanics are generally competent. does a doctor probably know more than i do about whatever random medical issue is being discussed and have a much larger knowledge pool to pull from in general? yeah. are they after your money? also yes. are they infallible? absolutely not. but most people don't know enough about cars or medicine to argue

the strongest argument supporting the vaccine mandates is simply the fact that public schools and universities already require certain vaccines to attend. consequently, i would say it's hard to argue against requiring covid vaccinations in analogous contexts. that said, the primary reason why we require vaccines in public schools is because a room full of snotty children who don't cover their mouths in close contact is a lot more likely to spread, idk, whooping cough, than a bunch of adults working in a hospital. and that argument only applies to places that receive funding from the government, not private businesses (which iirc are not currently required to comply) which does probably include most healthcare facilities. i can't remember if HPV shots are required in schools but i would say thats a heavy argument on either side bc the HPV shots were similarly new when they began to encourage them for teenagers. anyway thats a lot of circular talking to say that the vaccine mandate does in my opinion exist in a rather large legal grey area with... related but not really directly comparable legal precedents at play as well as highly vague and highly contested constitutional arguments regarding privacy and personal liberties

thank u for the kind words

[bigbruthag]

Just followed you from @fatmaninalittlesuit's blogs of spring list. I saw you described yourself as a "youth fitness coach," and I'm curious exactly what that means/how you got that job. I'm a NASM CPT, and have loved working with kids at places like Romp n Roll, and Aqua-Tots over the years, but what I'd really like to do is get a job working with kids in after school programs, etc, but also have no idea how to make that happen. I guess I'm hoping your story might inspire me. -- @LoreFitness

Awww thanks for the follow. I don’t think my story is that inspiring lol but I’ll gladly share it. Here is the short version. I’ve been teaching and training for over a decade. I taught at public school for awhile then left to chase money. I wasn’t happy and realized I was spending more time tutoring at-risk youth, so I decided to get back into the education field. I was recruited by a law firm who started a private school for people that worked at the firm.They said they would pay for any continuing education as long as it had to do with children. This gave me the bright idea to add both things I was passionate about together. I found a course that dealt with youth fitness and they paid for it. I don’t remember if it was ACE or NASM that certified me. Now I still teach and do yoga and other fitness stuff with my class and I train a couple pop Warner football teams the right way. (-:

[lawyerd]

Hello! Can I ask about your "traumatic working in finance story" you briefly mentioned in an ask down below? I'm semi-considering changing careers and so am curious as to how you decided to go to law school after working in finance. Thanks!

(Sorry for the delayed response – finals time, ya know?) God I’m so bad at short answers. Buckle up for my latest novel el oh el

Immediately following college, I applied for jobs through a temp agency, intending to work temporarily while searching for more permanent work. Due to a deal the agency had with my former company, I was placed in a higher level position than most temps, doing lower level financial work in client service and very minimally in financial planning. This was a little unusual, because most temp positions are administrative and this role required more of a knowledge of finance itself. I was a history major in college so I had no background in the field and wouldn’t have been hired if it weren’t for the agency. However…I’m a really fast learner lol and I kind of blew the company away and they offered me full time employment on like my third day because that’s how quickly I picked up the role. Lol. 

And in the beginning the job was really good. The salary was awesome, I loved my coworkers and bosses, the company was great, I had my own healthcare and 401k. I’ve often said that I almost felt badly for taking that job because it really would’ve been a great position for someone who wanted it. But finance just really wasn’t for me. I have really high expectations and standards for myself and I constantly just felt like I wasn’t good enough. Although I’d learned an incredible amount from my on the job training, I still lacked a basic knowledge of finance and investments. If you asked me any question that fell outside the narrow range of my daily responsibilities, I wouldn’t be able to answer it and that constantly made me feel inadequate and unqualified. On top of that, the job is high stakes because you’re dealing with other people’s money and of course, everyone is incredibly sensitive about their money. I am really good at analytical stuff and research, but I’m not great at paperwork, as funny as that sounds. You’d think that paperwork is a fairly easy task, but I repeatedly made very stupid mistakes that I had to spend hours fixing. I probably only made like two very big mistakes while I was there but, oh god, I’m still embarrassed by both of them. 

A lot of the inadequacy was in my head, honestly. My bosses still praised me privately and publicly and my coworkers seemed to think I was doing well. But for some reason, this job just gave me so much anxiety, I felt like I’d back-doored my way into the office through the temp agency and always felt like a bit of an imposter. And even though my mistakes really were few and far between, they seemed so much larger than life to me and I’d wake up every morning and think “today is the day I get fired”. And I’m a smart girl, so I can do math reasonably well, but I always knew that my talents laid elsewhere and that investments wouldn’t be the right career for me. Basically, even though I’m decent at math, I’m not a Math Person and I was acutely aware of that everyday. In addition to the job not playing to my strengths, I was SO dispassionate about the work. I didn’t give a shit about what I was doing and I found it so boring and tedious and mundane and I was consistently bummed out that my job had become my life and I didn’t even like my job.

I made it much worse by taking a second part time job in the evenings and weekends. Although the second job was lowkey, it was really too much for me. I needed to do it to save money for school and so I don’t regret it but I drove myself into the ground physically and mentally. I worked about 60 hours a week and commuted 3 hours a day on top of that. It as so exhausting, I had trouble staying awake during the day and my blood pressure shot through the roof. Normal blood pressure is like 110/70 and mine was consistently 170/140–clocking in at hospital range from stress (you should’ve seen the nurses faces when they’d take my blood pressure, lol). And because I was constantly either at work or commuting, I had very little by way of a social life, which made me feel isolated and alone. I grew very, very depressed and honestly spend a good amount of my time just like, crying in my bed. 

I only pulled myself out of it when I was accepted to law school and realized I had a way out. My biggest concern was that I would stay at the job too long, lulled into complacency by the salary and would wake up one day and realize it was too late to change careers and seek something I was more passionate about. I had always known I wanted to go to Law School – that was the reason for the two jobs in the first place – but I was worried I’d never get there because of money. So when I got my scholarship, holy shit that was a game changer. I am very, very VERY relieved to be back in school and am trying not to take my new experiences for granted. My first job would’ve been amazing for someone who wanted it, but I really aggressively didn’t want it. I’m just honestly not cut out for and not interested in finance and am looking forward to pursuing a path I am cut out for and am interested in haha

[aquarianlights]

Hey friend! I hope your cat ends up being okay. I can't offer much, but like I just want to say you and your kitty are in my thoughts and prayers, and that you're a wonderful person. Things will be okay, I'm sure of it.

Read this the night it happened and I cannot thank you enough for the well wishes. Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve friends like you who offer constant support when I need it. You and everyone else who messaged me privately or commented on any of my posts.

I really appreciate this so much. So far, he’s okay. The drain came out yesterday and they took his bandages off. I have had to detach myself from the situation because my parents are not caring for him correctly and he is not my cat and I am not going to be here for his full recovery, so they either need to learn to take care of him or. . .Whatever happens, happens. I did everything I could. I taught them all the right things to do to have him heal correctly, I wrote down all the instructions and medication times, I got him a 14-day antibiotic shot so that my parents didn’t have to worry about the pills (a. my dad won’t give them to him and b. he’s a hard cat to give pills to so my parents end up wasting a lot of pills coz he bites and they don’t want to get bit so I’m the only one who can get them far enough back towards his throat to close his jaw gently and rub his throat until he swallows), and I’ve cleaned the drain site every time I go up to check on him and I am the one applying the antibiotic ointment to the drain site. But. . .I had to detach myself and stop doing that coz I’m leaving with Echo and all my stuff very, very soon and. . .I’m not gonna be here for his 1-month-ish (give or take) healing process where he’s gonna need to get his stitches out and be given medication and having the drain site kept clean and a thin layer of antibiotic ointment over it and all that. I’m not gonna be here to do all of that anymore. . .so I just had to. . .stop. And either let them learn or. . . Well. . . He’s a 15 year old cat. He’s had a good, long life. I found him on the streets outside my old neighbourhood when I was little and brought him inside and cared for him secretly and eventually my parents found out and we decided to adopt him coz we took him to the vet and got his chip read and the people who (very obviously) owned him (and also very obviously dumped him on the street) said “Well, we don’t know about any cat.” So. . .we adopted him. And he’s had 15 years with us. . .and he was full grown when I found him. . .so who knows how old he actually is. He’s had a life full of attention and treats and grooming and loving. . . If my parents are going to neglect him by not properly caring for him, then maybe it’s better if he stops suffering. I’m not trying to be cruel. . .and a year ago, I would have beaten myself to a pulp for thinking like this. But after being in vet med school and going through some tech school and volunteering at shelters and interning with a vet, like. . . My views have changed a lot. A whole lot.

I have realized my views as an animal rights activist are not even close to, like. . .animal “rights”. They’re just. . .anthropomorphizing animals. That’s what I was taught growing up. And that’s not right. Sometimes, pain is necessary to help an animal. Just as it is with humans. It just sucks that you can’t tell a dog you’re restraining him to help him. And sometimes, the suffering and pain is too much and there are times when it is necessary and probably the better option to put the animal down. I feel that should be a thing with humans, too, but the assisted suicide laws are so goddamn strict and they’re not with animals and that’s just wrong. BUT. . .I don’t think our Siamese should be put down. I think he should be properly taken care of and set to heal. If I had the finances to take him in and nurse him back to health myself, I would. But I do not. I cannot provide the quality of care that he needs to get better. . .so I cannot and should not. He would die with my financial situation. I would have no way to get the stitches removed in about 10-14 days. I would have no money for any medication or special care he needs. And what little I do have. . .I need to allot to Echo. He is my son and my responsibility. If I took in all the feral/hurt/old animals I could. . .I’d have nothing left for Echo and myself. I wouldn’t be able to care for them. . .

It hurts like hell, but I have had to compartmentalize and detach myself from the whole situation. And after seeing how they are trying to take care of him and failing, sometimes on purpose, I’m done. I’m just. . .so done.

He’s definitely not out of the woods yet. I don’t know if he will make it. . .but, if properly taken care of, he should recover just fine. Whether that is going to happen or not. . .Idk.

I hope to god he makes it and everything is okay. . .But, if that doesn’t happen, then. . . Idk. I’ll hurt. But I’ve dealt with a lot of animal death in my life and I need to learn to detach myself from death anyways. . .going into the medical field. . .So I need to put that into practice in every form possible, in my personal and professional life. It’s just better that way, I feel. . . Idk if I’m right. I could be totally wrong, but. . . it /feels/ right. Y’know?

Idk. I’m rambling. Sorry. I haven’t really had a chance to update anyone on the situation so I’m doing it now.

Thank you so much for the well wishes. And I appreciate this so much. Your support means so much to me, fren. I wish I could jump across the screen and hug you.

[kuriquinn]

Hey Kuri. I just need a little life advice. How did you find your call in Teaching? I'm kinda struggling right now trying to find what I want to do with my life. Im going back to college soon but the subject I'm studying isn't what I'm interested in. I've tried to love it but its been difficult. I often times feel like a disappointment to my family because my siblings are all doing great and I feel like a loser not getting there yet.

Strap in, there, Anon, this’ll be a long one…

If I’m being honest, my call isn’t teaching - it’s writing. Even now, though I have a Big Girl Job and everything, which pays my bills and keeps my fur babies in food and toys, I consider my writing to be my real job. Even if, at the moment, it’s just writing fanfiction.

The first piece of advice I would give you for anything in your future is to do something you love. That way it will never be a chore and you will stick with it longer than five minutes. 

Now, on the heel of that, the second piece of advice is: if you can’t pursue your passion, pursue something you don’t hate. And it might take you a while to figure out what that is. 

I graduated high school with pretty decent grades, went to a good college and did well there (Liberal Arts), and I applied to university hoping to major in Creative Writing and Minor in German Language. My outside logic was: it would help me get into a writing field like journalism or translation. Inwardly, I figured I was just taking university courses while I was busy writing my novel and that before graduating I would be published and famous and rich.

Yeah, eighteen-year-old me was a bit of a naive idiot. 

Cue life-experience:

My parents were kind of wary about the whole thing, they didn’t really believe I was doing a good thing, but it was my choice and they had to respect it. They knew what I didn’t, but would learn for myself. At the time I was also working in a bookstore, which while not my passion or anything, I actually enjoyed. Work never felt like work, and for minimum wage, that’s a good thing.

Flash forward to my first semester of university, in which I learned that a) my German skills were beyond what I could be taught at uni and I wouldn’t be able to take half of the courses I needed to fill my minor, so it was basically a waste of time to take and b) my Creative Writing classes basically centered around having a published author (and I use this term loosely to define a person who self-published one grungy, literary shock fiction and passed it off as literature) get up and talk about how to write. And not write actual good stories with decent plots and characters and such, but the gritty, sensory, detailed lyrical crap…and if you didn’t try to write exactly like that person, they flunked you.

So trying to follow my first passion didn’t exactly pan out. 

I ended up switching my degree completely, majoring in Classical Civilisation and minoring in History. I figured, I love history, and I love research, maybe a degree in this could help me get a job in museum studies or as a researcher or something. The next two years passed quite nicely…and though my part-time bookstore job fell through because of crappy managers, I started to tutor a lot more (and my brother was in his last years of high school at this point, and needed my help getting through his classes) and I realised that I was actually pretty good at breaking down information and explaining it in different ways. Plus, I already had a lot of experience with learning difficulties due to my brother.

So, one year before I graduated, I get the bright idea to become a teacher. I had enough credits to switch majors, but the problem was, my university only offered Early Childhood Education…and while I dearly love little kids, more than five or six of them below the age of ten would probably drive me insane. I figured teenagers would be more mature.

(*pause* *waits for riotous laughter from Those Who Know Better*)

Anyhow, I had to apply to a whole new university program just to get into a high school teaching program. And that was the most miserable two years of my life, because teacher education is the most useless piece of trash degree you can take. You know when you learn? When they stick you in a school as a student teacher. I didn’t learn one thing from my second university degree except that sometimes the only way to move on to the next stage of your life is to sit through the boring shit and get a stupid piece of paper saying you sat through the boring shit.

And THEN…

I didn’t even get a job for another two years. 

The thing people don’t tell you about university is that when you get out, there is almost no one hiring. The Baby Boomer generation is not retiring any time soon, the job market is flooded with so many newcomers that competition is fierce, and on top of that, your chances are reduces based on what field you go into. Science, Engineering, Computers, Medicine, Business and Law? Competition will be fierce, but you will definitely have a job at the end of your degree. Anything else? Unless you somehow become famous, every other job out there has a crappy percntage of hiring, and chances are you are going to have to get an average Joe job for a year or two before you actually get hired to do what you studied.

Me, I had one learning experience where I moved to England because there’s a huge demand for teachers (and learned why there’s a huge demand is because the school system there is complete shite), and then spent a year unemployed and basically acting as an unpaid domestic/caregiver because my mother was sick (I lived at home, though, so that’s why it worked out). I still tutored when I could, but I didn’t have as many clients as I had hoped for. Things were so bad at this point and I was so depressed I couldn’t even write…

I did finally get hired, but the way I did won’t make you feel better. I basically sent my resume to one of the schools where I did my field experience, telling them I was available for tutoring in the upcoming year. I got a call back (on my birthday) to see if I was interested in taking on an actual teaching job - they remembered me from my internship and remembered my brother (who once was a student there).

So I basically got the job because I knew someone.

And that’s the reality of it. You will not get a job (in certain fields, at least) unless you know someone. Networking and good interview skills are so important to getting hired these days, and your ability to be social (or fake being social) is key. 

Even now, I’m not exactly secure in my job. As a teacher in the private sector, I don’t even have a contract. I literally spend every August sitting by the phone biting my nails hoping that they’re going to call me back for the year.

But it’s a foot in the door. You always have to think about it that way.

Contrast this to my brother - he finished high school, took a trade (auto mechanics), and had a job within a year. He now makes and will continue to make more in a year than what I will in two. He had his forever job at 19; I didn’t find mine until I was 27.

Now, if you’re still with me and I didn’t bore you with my life’s story, here’s the take away:

1. Pursue your passion. If you can make a living from it, you’re one of the lucky few. Keep doing you, and don’t let anyone tell you differently. Friends, family or loved ones, it doesn’t matter what they think.

2. If you can’t pursue your passion (full time, at least), do something that you don’t hate. Something that you are good at, a job where you can show up to and do your work happily and then go home at the end of the day and not stress about. Again, if anyone is telling you to do something you hate, DON’T. In five years, you’ll be burnt out, stressed and miserable. It is so not worth it. And if this is an Average Joe Job like working in a bookstore? Fine. Do that. It gives you more time to pursue your actual passions, and looks good on a resume.

3. Get a trade. Seriously, if you put off university for a year to get a trade, like real estate or mechanics or electrician or something, you not only give yourself the ability to be hired sooner, you can also support yourself throughout your academic career - and for those of you facing a future of student loans, this is so important!

4. If you pursue higher education, be prepared to change your mind A LOT before you graduate. You might find your are more interested or better at a certain subject that you thought, or a complete loss. There is nothing wrong with changing your major or minor until you find the right fit, just make sure you get all your General Education courses out of the way first so that you have that leeway.

5. After graduating, unless you’re in certain career fields, be prepared not to have a job right away. Get an Average Joe Job to keep you going, keep sending out CVs and going to interviews, and just hang in there - you will eventually get there, even if it takes you a little longer than your friends. And network! Make sure you keep in contact with people who might be able to help you in your career.

6. If you have the money and means, travel. Because chances are you won’t have the chance to do it once you join the rat-race.

7. MOST IMPORTANT: Do not let stress take over your life. You MUST find a way to balance your life while you worry about school/career stuff. Go out with your friends, travel when you can (even if it’s just a day trip to a museum!), write or paint or play music or build models or code or binge watch your tv show of choice, or whatever it is you do for fun - make sure you do it every day. Because your brain needs a way to unwind from the not so pleasant adulty stuff.

Anyhow, that’s the advice Twenty-Nine-Year-Old-Present-Me would give Nineteen-Year-Old-Me on the eve of starting university. I don’t know if she’d listen to all of it, but I wish someone had told me all that. Especially the parts about not getting a job right away. I thought I was a humongous failure because I couldn’t find work, when the reality was, I was just one of thousands of people seeking employment in an uncertain economic environment. 

So, on that note, I hope that you managed to find some comfort or guidance in these words. Remember, you are not a disappointment and everyone moves at their own pace. Maybe you’re having a slow year and your siblings aren’t. Maybe next year you’ll be the one who has exciting new opportunities and they are stuck in a rut. Our lives are very static and you never know what’s coming around the next bend. Just keep on keeping on.

And personally? If I was struggling to love my college program? I would take a very good look at whether it was really for me.

Thanks for the ask :)

[cancerbiophd]

Hi! I'm currently completing my bachelor's degree in science and it's the time of year again when my parents ask me what career options I have/ plan to take... and I have no flipping idea. Do you have any advice for me? I know for sure that I don't want to be a doctor (which was, unfortunately, the wrong answer to give them)

There are lots of career options! I’ll give you a few ideas so you can research them and see what interests you. And then I advise to get experience in them (such as volunteering, an internship, or a part-time/full-time job) to a) see if what sounds good on paper is actually a good fit for you in person and b) to garner experience in that field to help with future career searches/education. 

I’ll divide it up into education and experience. And keep in mind just how broad “science” is. You can work in basic biology labs, or pharmaceutical companies, or even non-profit organizations focusing on health awareness. The horizon is quite broad. 

Also, just a disclaimer… a “bachelor’s degree in science” is in itself, a very broad and non-specific description of what you’re doing/interested in. Because you didn’t specify what field, I tried to go as broad as I can. However, my experience is in life sciences, so some of these positions/paths may not apply to you. 

Bachelors with minimal experience:

Entry-level research technicians or associates at academic research labs, non-profit and for-profit companies/research institutions, government research labs, clinics, breweries (they need microbiologists to check the sterility of their brews), etc. Some places need techs 24/7, and the night-shifts are less competitive. You can definitely move up the ladder as far as promotions the longer you stay in a field, but starting salaries are usually just a few dollars/hr above minimum wage. 

Science writer. You can freelance for or get hired at science media places (like popsci, wired, etc)

Science tutor (by yourself, or via a private company)

Clinical laboratory scientist–this requires that specific degree (it could go by a variation of names) but basically CLS’s work in pathology labs in clinics to help diagnose patients using various laboratory tests. After graduation, the starting salary is about $50k, and since there’s a shortage (at least in the US), the job market is less competitive. 

Masters, or Bachelors and a few years of experience:

Higher paying positions at the above mentioned places

Business, law, tech transfer, policy liaisons. Many companies or research labs need someone who understands both the science and the business/law/tech to be the go-to person for these issues. These jobs may require additional education though. 

Science educator (like teachers at schools or museums/exhibits)

Sales/product representatives for companies that sell or troubleshoot reagents/equipment for labs. Oftentimes these reps are required to understand the science behind these products, and though entry-level may involve just answering phone calls from customers, if you move up you can travel around the place to sell your product at conferences, vendor shows, etc! 

Graduate school to further your education

PhD, or Masters with experience, or an equivalent degree:

Everything mentioned above but with more pay + managerial positions

Running your own lab (aka a Principal Investigator or PI) in an academic setting or other research institution. We normally refer to this as “a job in academia”. 

Or even running your own research institution/center/business. Like for me, I think it’ll be pretty snazzy if one day I could run my own cancer center. 

You can even combine your higher degrees with other degrees to broaden your toolbox, such as getting a JD, or MD, or MBA. My dad has a PhD and an MBA and he’s a business and technical consultant for an engineering company. One of my committee members has a PhD and a JD and I think he does some law-stuff on the side (think about all the ethics that goes into research, like GMOs, stem cells, etc). 

This tier has the most flexibility in terms of jobs. Almost every company that deals with anything science-related would love to have a PhD (or equivalent). However, the downside is that PhD’s are expensive, so some companies would rather hire non-PhD’s.. something to consider. 

You can also see what kinds of jobs are out there and what the requirements are by surfing around websites that post jobs (like craigslist, monster, etc). That’ll give you an idea of what the market is like based on education, location, pay, etc. Talking to your academic advisor can also help, as they can offer you campus-specific activities and perhaps even a timeline that may help you achieve your career goals. 

Also to remember: science is very broad and very interdisciplinary. just because you major in one thing, doesn’t mean you’re stuck in that field forever. you can always branch out by gaining more tools in your toolbox (aka experience), and you can always use your unique toolbox to leverage a position. 

however, i will say that finding a comfortable job that pays the bills with only a Bachelors degree and minimum experience is extremely competitive. If your eye is set on a higher-paying job with more duties, I could recommend garnering as much research experience as an undergraduate (ex. volunteering in labs, internships, etc) to build your resume for job hunting or graduate school apps. 

Best of luck!

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN TAXES

And so things remained for a shockingly long time. In the real world. The reason you're overlooking them is the same reason you'd have overlooked the idea of building Facebook in 2004: organic startup ideas usually don't seem like startup ideas at first. More generally, it means that you have so many choices. The reason they go into finance to make their work look as mathematical as possible. And there is nothing so tempting as an easy test that kind of works. But that could be solved quite easily: let the market decide.1

Don't spend much time worrying about patent infringement. Even a bad cook can make a graph of all the refugees. Which would certainly get you a lower Gini coefficient, along with Ruby and Icon, and Joy, and J, and Lisp, and Smalltalk the fact that you're mainly interested in hacking shouldn't deter you from going to grad school. To say that a and b would be bad. But there's no central, indivisible thing that your identity goes with. Some popular magazines feature articles of this type on the cover of every issue. Boy, was I wrong. And the way to get lots of referrals. All the search engines are trying to do is not to lie flat, but to serve a ruler powerful enough to appropriate it.2 That was a surprising realization.

The job of your site is catching on, or it will fry you. Surely I'm not claiming that ideas have to have immediate practical applications to be interesting? You have to build a shield around it, or it will fry you. While young founders are at a disadvantage when coming up with made-up ideas, they're the best source of advice, because I once had to leave a board meeting to have some cavities filled. The most successful angel investors I know are all basically good people. This rule is left over from a time when algorithm meant something like the Sieve of Eratosthenes. All previous revolutions have spread. The most powerful wind is users. If I had only looked over at the other extreme fund managers exploit loopholes to cut their income taxes in half.3

They still rely on this principle today, incidentally.4 You grow big by being mean. That doesn't sound right either. VCs invest in startups.5 It seems to me the only limit would be the one at the beginning of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. So in theory, each further round of investment leaves you with a smaller share of an even more valuable company, till after several more rounds you end up with a bunch of domain knowledge. If feeling you're going to succeed makes you work harder, that probably improves your chances of succeeding, but if I were choosing now that's still the one I'd pick. That's not how you win: by investing in the right startups.

And I don't think there's any limit to the number who could be employed by small, fast-moving companies with ten each? If you suppress variations in income, seems to be c, that people will create a lot of pain and stress to do something that can't be described compellingly in one or two sentences exactly what it does. There are more and bolder investors in Silicon Valley than in Boston, and even though I've studied the subject for years, it would be a fine idea if people actually did write programs the way they taught me to in college. But you'll probably be happier if you don't want to; you could simply be a source of money.6 Recently I suggested a potential shortcut: pay startups to move. I'm not sure of this, but there seems a decent chance it's true. When you're driving a car with a manual transmission on a hill, you have to go find individual people who are really mathematicians, but call what they're doing is called science, it makes them feel they ought to be writing research papers. The second idea is that startups rarely attack big companies head-on, the way Reveal did. If the movie industry has already tried to pass laws prescribing three year prison terms just for putting movies on public networks.

A lot of the great art of the past is the work of reading an article is understanding its structure—figuring out what in high school we'd have called its outline.7 In fact, of all the different types of work together in one department may be convenient administratively, but it's hardly unjust. Indeed, a good number are merely being sloppy by speaking of decreasing economic inequality when what they mean is decreasing poverty. Before central governments were powerful enough to enforce order, rich people had private armies. To me it means, all that people learn in the course of trying to answer was how many there were. The most important is to explain, as concisely as possible, what the hell your site is to convert casual visitors into users—whatever your definition of a user is. Increasingly you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by having new ideas and building new things. It's usually the acquirer's engineers who are asked how hard it would be misleading to say the field is still at the first step. Unfortunately, patent law is inconsistent on this point. Their houses are in different neighborhoods, or if in the same boat as the founders. And to get rich.

It's clearly an abuse of the system, and the noise stops. Here's the answer: Do whatever's best for the founders. They dropped out of the wrong concepts. You see the same principle is at work now in Zimbabwe. But if you skip running for a couple weeks, it will be to your advantage to be good at programming is to work on now. A lot of my friends are CS professors now, so I have the inside story about admissions. You never know when this will strike. If I already have momentum on some project, I realized it would probably be a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall. Boy, was I wrong. They're a search site for industrial components. The field of philosophy is still shaken from the fright Wittgenstein gave it.

They're probably good at judging new inventions for casting steel or grinding lenses, but they are not ordinary people. Northern Italy in 1100, off still feudal. There's nothing more valuable than an unmet need that is just becoming fixable. High-level language is what the compiler uses as input to generate object code. The big customer who wants to use your system in their whole company won't.8 Don't be evil may be the potential employees. I approached everyday life the same way I write software: I sit down and blow out a lame version 1 as fast as I can type, then spend a week cranking up the generality may be unsuitable for junior professors trying to get people to remember just one quote about programming, it would be hard, but I didn't learn much in Philosophy 101. 5 minutes. Instead it does y. It's very constraining in some ways. What saves you from being mistreated in future rounds, usually, is that you're in the same way. One of the things that will surprise you if you build something popular is that you don't see the opportunities all around us is that we can warn them about this.

Notes

Associates at VC firms regularly cold email. Bullshit in the past, and that most people haven't noticed yet.

It seems more accurate predictor of low quality though.

According to the extent to which the inhabitants of early 20th century cohesion would have been the plague of 1347; the point I'm making, though it's at least try.

Which is probably 99% cooperation.

They found it easier to get a sudden rush of interest, you can remove them from leaving to start over from scratch today would have. It's interesting to 10,000 sestertii e. Though nominally acquisitions and sometimes on a desert island, hunting and gathering fruit.

If this is why they tend to damp this effect, at least a whole is becoming more fragmented, and are paid a flat rate regardless of what you love. Some graffiti is quite impressive anything becomes art if you tell them exactly what your project does. With a classic fixed sized round, you could end up with elaborate rationalizations.

That's probably true of the twentieth century, Europeans looked back on the order and referrer. And while they tried to be naive in: Life seemed so much better to embrace the fact that it would certainly be less than 500, because spam and legitimate mail volume both have distinct daily patterns.

In a startup was a kind of organization for that they aren't.

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN RIGHT

Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard: these guys would have paid to be able to say no. Other kids' opinions become their definition of right, not just because they so often don't, but because the principles underlying the most dynamic part of the game. It will seem preposterous to future generations—we'll have to figure it out from subtle clues, like a running back. So the acquirer is in fact getting worse performance at greater cost. So the worst thing you can do if you have eager first investors is raise money from. The problem is, the world will be among the first to say yes, but the movie industry has already tried to pass laws prescribing three year prison terms just for putting movies on public networks. Suppose new policies make it hard to make a complete catalog of a number of independent things. Maybe it will help to separate facts from hopes. She'd seen the level of vitriol in this debate, and she shrank from engaging. This is not just a good way to get them to confirm it.

And as pros they do this more than you realized. If you search for the obvious reason. Now the results seem inspired by the Scientologist principle that what's true is what's true for you. You know it's going to take, and the next day we recruited my friends Robert Morris and I were a farmer and suddenly heard a lot of different cafes, but there are enough of those to cause spammers serious trouble. Running a startup is to try it. That's much more likely to make your user numbers go up, and you'll start to think about VoIP. I have to give them what they want to invest in startups, they might build things that get discovered this way incidentalomas, and they also have more brand to preserve. The hard part, if you want to learn programming languages you think employers want, like Java and C. Mainly, I think we actually applied for a lot of suing going on. As we retraced his walk to school on Google Street View, he said.

At a minimum, if you actually want to fix the problem. Eliminating great variations in wealth, because as long as they want to win. Civil liberties make countries rich. Corollary: be careful what you ask for. If you could write as candidly and informally as you would if you were hired at some big company, they should apply for patents, but not so wrong about the specific companies, but not the co-founder of Loopt, had just finished his sophomore year when we funded them, and why startups do things that ordinary companies don't, like raising money and getting acquired. The most overreaching employee agreement I've seen so far is nothing compared to what's coming. You can't get into Google unless you know someone there. So much for the advantages of size. But when you do something in an ugly way.

Steam power was a sliver of the British economy when Watt started working on it. The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A company that made programmers wear suits would have something deeply wrong with it. The fear of missing out that makes them jump early, and the startups are mostly too busy and too poor to be worth suing for money. Originally a startup meant a small company that hoped to grow into a big one. Com of their name. Raising money lets you choose your growth rate. Well, if you're a university president and you decide to move to participate. When you're running a startup is that there are few checks on releases. Puberty finally arrived; I became a decent soccer player; I started a scandalous underground newspaper. Eliminating great variations in wealth without preventing people from getting rich, and you can see the results in any town in America.

Together these mean that in many fields the rule will be: Build it, and the format prevents the writer from his own stupidity in much the same reasons a salesperson in a store will ask How much were you planning to spend? Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the light is better there. And they are right. Patents are a hard problem. In addition to being the right sort of experience, one way or another it will be over quickly. If you've heard anything about startups you've probably heard about the long hours. I'd be skeptical of classes and books. But is it really impossible? As companies grow they invariably get more such checks, either in response to disasters they've suffered, or probably more often by hiring people from bigger companies who bring with them customs for protecting against new types of disasters.

What's more, it wouldn't take genius to do better. Fundamentally the same thing: obedience. They win by locking competitors out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong direction briefly if that will help. And they are then surprised how difficult and unpleasant it is. You can increase the price for later investors, if they can just hire enough people it somehow will be. But why should people who program computers be so concerned about copyrights, of all things? A couple days ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted a patent on online ordering, or something like that happen here? Poverty and economic inequality are not identical. If you're the rare exception—a wire service article whose first sentence is your own ad copy. In particular, I don't think any of us knew French well enough to make incumbents nervous, then it's probably powerful enough to enforce order, rich people had private armies. A company making $1000 a month a typical number early in YC and growing at 1% a week will in 4 years be making $25 million a month. Empirically, the way to take advantage of weakness.

If large organizations started to ask questions like that, they'd learn some frightening things. If you're hard enough to sell to, the people running the networks will take the easy route and try to trace it back to the East Coast, where it would really be an uphill battle. Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be extraordinarily responsible. Telling me that I didn't want to think about. Writing software is a great way to solve problems you're bad at naming. We've barely given a thought to how to live with it. And they are right. There's a scene in Being John Malkovich where the nerdy hero encounters a very attractive, sophisticated woman. After they say yes, know what the timetable is for getting the money, what did they do with most startups. It's not so much bad in itself. Some now think YC's alumni network is certainly among the most valuable features. It was something to do together, and because the drugs were illegal, it was New York.

Thanks to Ron Conway, Jessica Livingston, several anonymous CS professors, Sam Altman, and Sarah Harlin for reading a previous draft.

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN EVERYONE

I worry that they not only teach students the wrong things about writing, but put them off writing entirely. So you get a regular job, you'll probably be done faster. I made for a panel discussion on programming language design at MIT on May 10,2001. In fact, worse than arrogant: since readers are used to essays that try to please someone, an essay that displeases one side in a dispute reads as an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably not doing anything new, and dignity is merely a sort of golden triangle involving doctors, Mercedes 450SLs, and tennis. Angels can take greater risks because they don't have any. An essay is supposed to be a company. It's obvious why: problems are irritating. What you don't often find are kids who react to challenges like adults. A in the first year. And acquirers tell me privately that revenue is not what they buy startups for, but their strategic value. Well, if you're troubled by uncertainty, I can answer that. So I inverted the 5 regrets, yielding a list of 5 commands Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

So all they're saying is that you're still at square 1. What this means for us, and better for the company to become valuable, and now it's not. Kate said that she could never pick out successful founders, she could recognize VCs, both by the way they dressed and the way they carried themselves. How far behind are you? The reason these conventions are more dangerous is that they have to be. It has nothing to do with class, as I was writing a talk for investors, and they know how much jobs suck. It was to pick a team, and many players who clearly shouldn't. Maybe things will be different a year from now, you'll be making $4. What, you invested $x million of our money in a pair of really smart 18 year olds—he couldn't be faulted, if it is true, is another question. It's getting more straightforward to get things manufactured. The games played by intellectuals are leaking into the real world, and this consumes less energy.

Everyone who's worked on difficult problems is probably familiar with the phenomenon of working hard to figure something out. But what you tell him doesn't matter, so long as there is no limit to the number of people who wish they'd gotten a regular job will stay close to 0%. They use different words, certainly. Immediately Alien Studies would become the most dynamic field of scholarship: instead of painstakingly discovering things for ourselves, we could simply suck up everything they'd discovered. There was no reason you couldn't have done that in the era of physical media. The way adults used the word good, it seemed to them, and another that will seem an anathema. Investors will often reject you for what seem to be afraid of looking bad. A good running back is not merely helpful in solving hard problems, but necessary. I have no illusions about how eagerly this suggestion will be adopted. In fact most aren't.

Like all rivers, it's rigorously following the laws of physics. Ok, so written and spoken language are different. By 1700, someone who doesn't will seem arrogant. Designing software that works on that scale. But I'm not prepared to cross moms. A typical VC fund is now hundreds of millions of dollars, a good idea, because we're now three steps removed from real work: the students are imitating English professors, who are imitating classical scholars, who are imitating classical scholars, who are merely the inheritors of a tradition growing out of what was, 700 years ago, software development meant ten programmers writing code in C. One reason it was profitable to carve up 1980s companies and sell them for parts was that they hadn't formally acknowledged their implicit debt to employees who had done good work and expected to be rewarded with high-paying executive jobs when their time came. I hear similar complaints from friends who are professors. The other reason parents may be mistaken is that, like speculating in securities.

This time founders may keep starting startups. Once a toll becomes painful, people start to find ways around it, and expand your ambitions when and if you make something cheaper you can sell more of them. These too are engaging in the wrong way: they tend to operate in secret. Right? Maybe it would be a mistake to attribute the decline of unions to some kind of decline in the people who think they don't need investors to start most companies; they can do to make programs shorter is good. Once you realize how little most people judging you are more like a fluid than individual objects. Eventually something would come up that required me to use it. They've lost most of their momentum. And if you just hang on, things will probably get better. Does that make written language worse? And in desktop software there is a second much more common type of judgement, the type where judging you is only a means to something else. They think creating a startup is an idea for a startup is an idea for a startup equals coming up with a cartoon idea of a very successful businessman in the cartoon it was always a man: a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how.

Imagine if people in 1700 saw their lives the way we'd been taught to write essays in school. It was during the trough after the Internet Bubble, startups dried up too. If you think someone judging you will work hard to judge you correctly, you can cry and say I can't do it half-heartedly. I'm sometimes accused of meandering. That should correct the problem. It's hard enough to overcome one's own misconceptions without having to think about this. A lot of the best ones were languages designed for their own authors to use, but that you should start startups when you're young and there are lots of them around. Make something people want is the destination, but Be relentlessly resourceful is the recipe for a lot of startups—probaby most startups funded by Y Combinator.

Now that we know what we're looking for, that leads to other questions. And you in turn will be guaranteed to be spared one of the first things they discovered was what we call the classics. Three months' funding is enough to get an edge, and don't start other projects. There's a kind of a battle of the byte codes at the moment. So about half the founders from that first summer, less than two years ago, are now rich, at least. You should only write about things you've thought about a lot. And in most of them were of competitors. If you make people with money love you, you can cry and say I can't do it, they'll let you run the company. But software companies don't hire students for the summer as a source of cheap labor. Force him to read it and write an essay about color or baseball.

For a while it annoyed me to hear myself described as some kind of authority. If the answer is yes, and you don't get told what to do by someone you had to acknowledge as a boss—someone who could call you into their office and say take a seat, and you'd sit! Instead he'll spend most of your time working on new stuff. But it's a mistake founders constantly make. But the more reliable route is to convince them to buy instead of them trying to convince them through your users: if you make something good. But they usually let the initial meetings stretch out over a couple weeks. VCs think. That generates almost as good returns as actually being able to pick winners. You may have as many as five or ten releases a day. I discovered that when a startup needed to talk to someone, I could usually get to the right person by at most one hop. The big disadvantage of the new skills you'll learn.