29th March 2026, 8:00 AM
Thank you very much for your help, and I want to let you know that this rough time IS over now. I'm gainfully employed in a very satisfying position with coworkers who all seem to enjoy me being around and say so regularly. I'm getting paid better than I ever have as well. I intend on paying this forward as time goes on, though to start with I'm paying a number of friends BACK first thing.
I've got some real world perspective on poverty I didn't before, if nothing else, and it's reaffirmed what I'd known before, that the systems we've got in place need to be heavily revised. While my current position is somewhat solid (I've only been at it for a little over a month), I know for a fact far more are looking for work. I know that because every job I applied for, I was competing against dozens of others. The tech sector layoffs are only getting worse, and there's a bubble ready to pop very soon. All I can do is use my position to help others here and there when I can.
I've got some real world perspective on poverty I didn't before, if nothing else, and it's reaffirmed what I'd known before, that the systems we've got in place need to be heavily revised. While my current position is somewhat solid (I've only been at it for a little over a month), I know for a fact far more are looking for work. I know that because every job I applied for, I was competing against dozens of others. The tech sector layoffs are only getting worse, and there's a bubble ready to pop very soon. All I can do is use my position to help others here and there when I can.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)