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Re:Ask HN: Been job hunting for two years. No luck. Do I nee... by PaulHoule on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:46AM (#28524713)
I've had painful job searches where I nearly succumbed to despair. Reading Bob Firestone's writings on the subject turned my psychology around

https://job-interview-answers.com/

I have no fear of job interviews anymore.

For me a good side project "changes my life" in about 18 months. For my current project, I started out printing anime characters on a cheap inkjet printer and soon it was art reproductions, then photos I took. I realized I couldn't give them away without explaining where the images came from so I started adding a QR code that links to a "web side" and invented the "three sided card".

Somebody asked me to explain my motivation for choosing images and when I thought about it, 90% of my thinking was about the system itself and the needs of the system. Sometimes today I feel the cards work through me, just because I practice so much when the opportunity arises I can take 70 square inches of vacant space and make it mine.

That's what a "life changing" side project looks like to me and it's how hard you have to throw yourself at it and even possibly lose yourself.

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Re:Ask HN: Been job hunting for two years. No luck. Do I nee... by moviewise on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:55AM (#28524838)
Is there a website or pictures/examples of the "three sided card"?
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Re:Ask HN: Been job hunting for two years. No luck. Do I nee... by PaulHoule on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:33AM (#28525436)
I was writing a manifesto but haven't gotten finished because my practice has been changing so rapidly (e.g. I talked about all kinds of problems that I used to have but felt like I had to fix them instead of complain about them publicly)

There are 48 of them on the wall opposite my workstation

https://gen5.info/$/XQ*42RXF-TLY:$B.8/

there is a placard which links to that URL. Those are 8 inch squares and it covers 30% or so of the wall so it has a major effect on radiative transfer in the room. I had to replace many of the images with less bright images because the effect was uncomfortable and unsuitable for a video conferencing background.

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