realAzazello

It's getting harder to get a web-searchable answer, because in countries like Kenya 'good' jobs like this aren't publicly advertised. Yes, really - not publicized!

Fact: a lot of jobs (in Kenya, at least) from corporations and international NGOs, come with a deadline to submit your application - yet, the job isn't posted anywhere until 1-2 weeks before the deadline, AND then only on the company's website!

Kenya has private job posting sites that obviously crawl the company's pages for listing updates; and this helps to at least get the jobs publicized. But none of these sites have the sophisticated scraping systems like i.e. Indeed.com

For "social enterprises" work, it's all made worse because of the bad press and lawsuits that Sama/Samasource -YET AGAIN- and similar companies have been getting into within the last year, re: https://www.wired.com/story/social-enterprise-technology-afr...

These Companies have now stopped (i.e. hidden, temporarily) their listings for "content moderators" and "image labelers".

I guess the only way Kenyans are going to find about these jobs are through some connection with current employees; informal sources like Whatsapp groups; or Sama's recruiters sourcing exclusively within the country, so as to not put more international spotlight on their company.

Other content filtering work is primarily videos & pictures. Check out this article: https://www.wired.com/story/social-enterprise-technology-afr...

Sama/source in trouble yet again!

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How depressing is it that we're all calmly discussing how a nation's minimum wage is $61 per month.

> (influencers) getting ripped apart on Reddit

Refers to the aptly-named subredd, 'Linkedin Lunatics' </r/LinkedInLunatics>

Congratulations!

And thanks for the reminder, it's not publicized enough:

> CISSP is a management certificate

That's it exactly: it's focus and audience is not for specialization in technical knowledge; instead for those who wish to understand the management of security-specific technology.

> The joke is perhaps on everyone else, as many of the same (influencers) getting ripped apart on Reddit have figured out a relatively easy way to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by spouting inspirational, if often conventional, wisdom. These influencers...say the platform has become a profit machine, the sort of business-friendly space where a strong presence can directly lead to speaking gigs, brand deals, sales leads, career coaching opportunities, and more.

Here it is: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-26/airbnb...

(Also posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289112)

Article focuses on the writer's 'bad' review being removed without a reasonable explanation from Airbnb support, and insufficient followup from escalation staff:

> After I contacted Airbnb’s media relations department and said I was interested in doing a column about my experience, a spokesman...took quick action.

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The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

Weird lead-in for a title from the WP - but then again, it's the WP!

The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

But thanks for sharing a not-paywalled link.

The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

But I prefer your link! yay for 'not paywalled'!

Already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

(with some not-paywalled links)

There was an article (can't find the link) where a journalist couldn't get sufficient help from regular Abb Support; so he called up one of their (Media Relations?) people and told them he's writing a piece on customer satisfaction with Abb -- of course conveniently mentioning his most-recent troubles -- *"Would you like to comment for the article?"*.

He says, his problems were immediately escalated, then resolved properly. And...he still wrote the piece.

When I can find the link, will post here.

So... perhaps put a Twitter/HN/etc call-out to journalists, if they're planning to write articles on Abb, that you'ld like to share your experiences (headaches).

Be sure to link to this thread!

Define "'creative' ideas".

Do you think improving your critical thinking capacity would help?

Agreed-- look at what happened to poor Klaatu in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still#..., within just the first 10 minutes of in-person contact.

It's pure schadenfreude on my part, but I love it when 'ivory tower' organizations internally gnaw at each other, with thinly-veiled passive-agressiveness.

Even so...

> "Bill Gates owns more private farmland in the US than anyone else. His 242,000 acres of farmland stretch across 18 states from Washington to Florida."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...

Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34340894

Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343187

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That's about what ChatGPT is good for: playing human bureaucratic behaviors and systems against themselves.

Why do I feel this is a setup?? Still...Alright, I'll be the first to bite....

You're talking emigration, not just 'nomading'--which is that grey area of having a tourist visa but working remotely, thus technically you're not working illegally within that country.

Since most countries are very strict about emigration, yes even EU ones, your best bet is to go for that Italian citizenship which if gained will grant you EU citizenship, and thus the right to free movement of working in the EU. From that, you can leverage working elsewhere in the world.

Fun fact: got a friend who has the same benefit as you--he got IT citizenship thanks to both his parents, now lives & works in Milano in cybersecurity.

> felt like your US Passport was worthless

Don't say that. Don't even joke about that. You must have no oversea-living experience: a US passport will never be worthless - It's priceless--it's the best insurance you'll ever own - no, that you have a Right to - when traveling & working overseas. It'll allow access to more countries than any other passport; it'll help more than hurt your chances for employment in many countries; it'll provide you diplomatic services that most other countries have never and will never provide their citizens; and when the worse happens, it'll allow the US embassy staff to get your ass out of a country (yes, brooking the local rules of law) before you get thrown into its prisons -- even if YOU are the one at fault. If the 'worser' happens, it could be a literal 'get out of jail Free card' for you, depending on the diplomatic relations between the US and that country.

Another Washington Post irony is that they had the tongue-in-cheek but applaudable bravery to put quotes (albeit single ones) around 'Breakthrough' in their Title -- unlike other new sources trying to appear relevant by jumping on the coattails of this leak.

Well-played WP, well-played.

If I could flag this for being advertising, I would.

It would be very useful to put the year of the article - 2007 - in the title.

Just noting that this was first reported on HN a bit over two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24650344

He is this century's Howard Hughes. Especially in being his own worse enemy. Let's watch & learn how his end-story closes in a few years.

> "It's like an agency no one wanted and everyone is stuck with."

It's not like - it Is. The DHS should have never been created at all. It's one of several examples of dangerous reactionary responses to a tragedy that needed long-term, systemic solutions - not a new set of bureaucratic government agencies perpetuating old forms of fascist-leaning policies and bumbling through security theatrics.