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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Autodidact here. If one has drive, and a >20Mb internet connection and even a ten year old computer, one can teach oneself Mechanical Drafting, Excel & Access (or other spreadsheet & relational database, like libre office suite). Here is my advice to any driven young person, like 16 with a car.

  • get your GED/HiSET
  • if you are into trades, like the South Park episode showed is gonna be jackin', is apprenticeship.gov
  • if you are into free college, modernstates.org
  • if you want to start a business, sba.gov

I went with finishing public HS till 18, instead of jumping out with a GED or HiSET at 16, getting an apprenticeship (mechanical drafting) & doing that put me 2 years behind the ones that did this, and like AI, those are two important years, like the Pink Floyd song, Time...

And then one day you find

Two years have got behind you

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a good deal if you live till ninety and retire at 65. The one in my family is rolling along at her same payrate each month (adjusted COLA) as she had when she left, and since inflation has been under control, generally, it's like her pay was effectively doubled. Every month she gets a Direct Deposit for the amount she would have got if she were still working, 25 years of that and she only worked for 20.... UNIONS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Part time math tutor for trig & algebra [or higher] you can get $50+/hr working 1099 for yourself. [might start lower, bc remembering now was able to jack up the rate bc the recommendations]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

as a former student, there are some bad apples in public schools, and I mean teachers, administrators, coaches & janitors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Same. be a part time math tutor. It pays well ($50+/hr & you're under no one's thumb) for trig and you filter for generally interested students.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Local School Board: It's bad enough you Teachers are unionized, don't spread the pinko propaganda to our dear christian childrens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Like PE, it's all optional now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My only question is: Is there a limit to one person's power?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

As a future boltzmann brain, I agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

that waste of effort cold war... /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I often wonder what happened to the code I wrote in 2010 and used for production coordination & was working fine when I retired (2018). I figured the minute I left the hotshot kids would want to upgrade to their own styles. Not everyone liked it bc it wasn't beautiful but no one could say it wasn't functional, so it persisted. I was busy learning design and assemble CNC routers; but it worked and I didn't have time to make a selection of backgrounds & banners. It's just Excel, AutoCAD, & Access using VBA, which everyone has says they are going to deprecate VBA but, alas, people still want it. I remember Autodesk announcing the deprecation of VBA c. 2012 and I just looked and I guess they changed their mind bc there are modules for VBA available

14 years ago at stackoverflow. What is the future of VBA? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112491/what-is-the-future-of-vba Download the Microsoft VBA Module for AutoCAD - Autodesk https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/tsarticles/ts/3kxk0RyvfWTfSfAIrcmsLQ.html Links to download for VBA modules for their products Feb 7, 2024 To install the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Module (VBA) for Autocad, do the following: Select the appropriate download from the list below. Close all programs. In Windows Explorer, double-click the downloaded self-extracting EXE file.

sometimes legacy methods last longer bc no one wants to be a hotshot.

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