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  • You’re getting good advice here, especially @Doomsider@lemmy.world

    2 months isn’t that long and you should keep your head up and keep trying. Discouragement and lack of effort are the enemy.

    I would add, consider your target industries. Different industries have different cycles and levels of available positions. If you’re mostly looking in retail, this might not be the right economy or time of year, etc. One industry that usually has high demand and might overlap with psychology is health care. Assisted living, home health care, and many related non-medical care environments have consistent staffing challenges and don’t require specific degrees in nursing or medical, etc. I paid my way through college that way and learned a lot of life lessons, including the reasons that work isn’t for everyone. YMMV

    There are probably some other under employed unglamorous jobs in your area if you look with fresh eyes. And as others said, volunteering some free time could be a win win, doing stuff keeps the spirit up and being involved creates opportunities.




  • I work on this stuff. Pretty interesting situation with Chinese competition.

    Western culture has both normalized a safety first culture and sensationalized all flying accidents. FAA was built to uphold these things. The barriers to entry are so high, that effectively zero new companies or innovative products were successful for 50 years. Today tech companies are leaning in to lead the new markets, but it takes billions to get through the barriers, and most find it better to launch in less regulated markets. Zipline from CA, for example, has been flying medical drone delivery in Africa for many years.

    Chinese leadership decide what priorities are, and are willing to tolerate some failure and loss. They bring products to market quicker internally, the products are less mature. This gives them the opportunity to iterate in the field, which is a competitive advantage. But with lower barriers to entry may come inferior products, and time will tell whether those orgs iterate to succeed faster than Western companies aiming for high initial capabilities, or if the Western companies have enough war chests to carry them to market with superior products or if they burn up trying.

    At the moment, my career hinges on the Western approach, but I very much appreciate every step to minimize barriers.

    And don’t worry so much, honestly. These things will be comparatively safe before they drop off your order or pick up your kids, no riskier than the ride in today. Unless you are an early adopter is a less regulated market, then keep your head up.









  • T3CHT @sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlEspecially with their low pay
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    The underfunded school, or its expensive insurance will pay, raising rates and eroding the service of public education further.

    I found out here in CA public schools are paying several percent of total budget to cover liability from the past where kids were harmed.

    These are not for profit, these are not businesses. When they pay, the taxpayers pay, and the kids lose service.

    But whatever, she got hers. Big smile.


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    6 months ago

    But, it doesn’t change much, really. Folks need to move on from charge rate fetish or go deeper.

    My >5 year old Tesla does 250kW, this says 1000kW But - you dont actually charge 4x faster at 1 MW. Nor do you want to. 250kW doesn’t charge 2.5 faster than 100kW either, in my experience. This is because this is the limit, not the average. And the averages are slower for many reasons. Including you dont want to slam energy into your very expensive battery that much faster than you take it out, it will wear it out.

    And you know what? 100kW is good enough to charge over a meal or store visit. Packs are usually less than 100 kWh, and sessions are <<100%. And plugging in longer at level 2 / 11kW is better for the battery and grid if you’re in no hurry.