News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:‘Tired’, ‘lonely’ and hated by locals: the reality for th... by skim_milk on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:32PM (#36155342)
I've been doing some budget digital nomad for several years and the most boring part of it is having to re-explain what I do for a living every time I meet someone - oh why does every conversation start like this? I don't think I've even met a single soul who knew what programmers do or what "digital nomad" is when traveling within the USA over the past 2/3 years.

Granted, this is mostly rural camping and small-city AirBNB all in the borders of the US. (Except for one time I stopped in DC for a month - strangely the only people that came to talk to me were the homeless and even they held decent conversations)

We're getting our adrenal glands pumping over Narcissistic obsessives dedicating every ruminating moment towards writing the next hit piece where they finally resolve their past scenarios, and they finally said all the right things to the wrong people, in an orgy of retraumatizing material. Just ignore them, go travel, say hi to people, change the world and all that stuff.

Re:‘Tired’, ‘lonely’ and hated by locals: the reality for th... by soco on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:54AM (#36163531)
Might be my wrong sampling methods but I thought introducing yourself with the job description was more of an American thing? My impression meeting people around here (Europe) is more like "where are you from? aaaa cheese right?" and it goes on from there.