andyburke
@andyburke@kbin.social
- Comment on Is Gmail's "Dynamic Email"/Amp4Email like AMP? 1 year ago:
At this point does Google ever do anything that isn't awful for the consumer?
Eject, friend, eject!
- Comment on Is there a word in English to describe someone who wants to preserve a (minority) culture against erosion from a majority culture? 1 year ago:
As an outsider with no horse in the race, I thought this a good discussion.
In the end, I think maybe Quebec gets what it wants: I have no interest in visiting a place that tries to police its "culture" that much.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.
It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with "others" than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It's maddening.
- Comment on What is the worst US state to live in generally? 1 year ago:
How much do you think you'd need to get out? (Asking, in a kidding way, as a Californian who is tired of these memes about how it's bad to live here when you're just describing any major urban center in the world.)
- Comment on How did you get your job? Any advice? 1 year ago:
In 10 years you haven't made any professional connections who would want to work with you again?
That is the single best avenue to other jobs: foot in the door through someone you have worked with who can vouch for your professionalism and ability.
If you're not making those connections, something is wrong. It could be the kinds of jobs you've taken, eg: if they're all solo contracts and you don't interact with anyone on anything other than deliverables. Or you are taking roles where your output is used only by a small sunset of the company or something?
If you're taking reasonable roles and have decent interaction with co-workers and no one is willing to refer you for a job, then you need to think about what your relationships are like at work and why they aren't positive enough.