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[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a good one, thanks for the suggestion. You mentioned another contributing factor to my hypothetical career change too. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to work at some place that has a more direct impact on my community. My current job is more indirect, I would say.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Definitely my current team is a huge contributor. My previous job was a government contracting job with basically no stress, but now I'm in banking, and the stress is off the charts. My team is also a bit mismanged, which doesn't help.

I think if I could find another team like my previous job with low stress, then I'd definitely be happy to continue being a web developer.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's true that healthcare jobs are plentiful out in rural areas. I never thought of that. I'm not too sure how I would feel about having to go back to school, but it's a good option to consider.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

That's a good idea. I'm not the most proficient in terms of tech support, but I guess a lot of that stuff would be googling the issue.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I've accepted the fact that whatever options there are will most likely be a downgrade in pay. Wildlife ranger work does sound nice, though. If it's one of those ranger jobs where you have to go live out in the woods for an extended period of time, then that might be rough. But patrolling the wilderness sounds like a nice change of pace from IT work.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

Hello small instance friends :)

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this supposed to be funnier than the exiting vim jokes?

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, hopefully the insubordination keeps growing. I like to imagine the root cause of it is Russian soldiers realizing that Putin is kind of a dumbass and they're throwing their lives away for him.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this hoarding? You should try to break this cycle. There's no way every single one of those hundreds of tabs is important to you. Take an hour or two to go through the tabs and manually create the bookmarks on desktop for only the ones that are most important to you. Let all the other ones go.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Svengoolie tonight while trying to learn about using Docker for my local development environment.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

There was a bug with the hot sort a couple weeks ago, so that kind of poisoned the well a little bit. I'm never sure if the poor sorting is due to another bug or if it's just the nature of how hot and active sort works. Assuming the sorts are working as intended, I'm beginning to believe that lemmy is just too small for hot and active to work well. Maybe they'll be more applicable if lemmy grows to the size of reddit.

But anyway, I've just been sticking to the "top" sorts, for now. Those work well.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I only looked at the abstract, and only for like 3 minutes, but it looks like this is the relevant line:

Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1).

So not that 1 in 5 adults can't read, but 1 in 5 adults have difficulty completing basic tasks involving reading. OP's choice of the term "illiterate" seems like a poor choice, but that also seems like a never ending pedantic argument that I'm not really looking to get invovled in.

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