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My index fingers are longer on palm side but ring fingers are longer on back side.

I do have a lot of anxiety, I am not muscular but rather skinny fat. I am also attracted to yoga, running, swimming, etc instead of more manly sports like football or even soccer. I do lift weights though. Another funny thing, I tend to really enjoy games in which you play as female character like Tomb Raider and if a game let you pick your gender, I tend to pick female. Outside of video games, I have no desire to dress as a female.

Based on these traits it does seems I have "wrong" ratio.

I think criminal penalties is too much. I think at some point paying ransom is better than not paying, for example, in case of attacks on hospitals. People can literally die.

What needs to happen is that when an organization that skips IT security practices, it should have large monetary penalties and its executives held responsible, no golden parachutes for them. You can imagine any factory where they don't practice OSHA safety guidelines will get in major trouble.

Yeah I loved Amazon but have moved away from them for everything but things that have really low risk like Kindle, video games, or toilet paper.

I used to still use Amazon for research and reviews but now reviews are useless.

Now my biggest reason to visit Amazon is for price comparison and price history via camelcamcelcamel extension.

Yup I have interviewed at a lot of companies with unlimited time off, every single one of them seems to have taken less than 4 weeks off. This is what I get at my current company with no unlimited vacation. And at our company, sick time and mental health days are separate and not counted against your regular PTO.

I am assuming this this doesn't count major expenses like housing, insurrances, childcare, regular bills etc. After the stuff that everyone pays for, my top monthly expenses are:

1. Kids Ninja Warrior style gym: $109 2. Dog's Health insurance: $50 3. Home security company: $18

Can you build an autoresponder to their boilerplate emails?

Always wondered why spiders have their own phobia defined. I have probably a mild form of arachnophobia, they just give me creeps especially when moving.

Your comment makes me wonder if it is indeed related to their relative intelligence to other insects.

It is not just that. The biggest test for contractor vs employees is IRS classification. If a person earns majority of their income from one entity, then they are classified as employee. There is no official percentage cutoff like 51% or even 95%, IRS supposed to look at the whole situation.

Majority of tech contractors are actually employees of contracting company, so that is one way to get around it. At one point, I was freelancing, and I had only one client. My/their accountant had me open an LLC for this reason.

Now there are a lot of gig workers who are on all of the platforms and probably earn equal amount of money from each platform. But there are plenty who are only on one platform, so they will need to be classified as employees.

That would QA department. And QA department is not exactly the most respected department in technology. I have seen numerous times where issues raised by QA are ignored, or even worse they get code to test 1 day before the release.

The issue lies with leadership. Start with CEO for creating a culture where safety and quality is ignored. Go down the chain only if there is considerable proof that someone under them ignored corporate orders and delivered buggy software.

Blame lies with CEO. Unless CEO can show there was insubordination that is CEO wanted to do the right thing but director ignored CEO and ordered their reports to ignore CEOs orders.

I was scheduled for JnJ vaccine tomorrow but late in evening I got a text that my appointment is cancelled. I was conflicted all day about whether to keep my appointment or cancel it. I am sort of relieved that someone else made this decision for me and honestly makes me feel good about getting another vaccine. This assures me if there were or are any issues with any other vaccines, our regulators would have paused those vaccines too.

Also I was able to get another appointment for Moderna vaccine next week. So I just have to spend another 4 weeks or so social distancing. It is better than developing blood clots, imo.

I don't really have an answer but I am 40 and I feel the same. I am just senior dev in major tech giant, but work is boring and and unmotivating. I really enjoy programming and learning but I realized 10 years ago that working for someone else is not my thing. Here are few things I have tried but mostly failed at them or got bored:

1. Portrait Photography - lots of fun, you meet great people. Cons are that as an introvert, selling myself and then helping client pose during photoshoot was very draining. Then it was selling time for dollars, maybe one day you can charge $5000 per shoot but most likely you will not create decent wealth for your kids.

2. Real Estate Agent - again lots of fun exploring new places, and meeting great people. But unlikely photoshoots, buying home is very stressful, you will absorb client's stress, and of course so much paperwork and deadlines. I never got started properly. But helped a few friends and it was very stressful experience. Again introvert issues with selling myself to strangers.

Then I have had some ideas and tried/half-assed these:

1. Writing fiction - seems like a great idea but it is really hard to write.

2. Fitness blog/spam - I started with a blog sharing fitness tips and workout and motivational videos. Eventually, there was very little original content, it was just embedded YouTube/Instagram videos. It was generating lunch money with affiliate links and ads, but I felt sleazy, especially, when most of the content on the blog was girls in bikinis or yoga pants. (Men's videos were not that popular). As I got old, I didn't want to do this.

3. Tutoring for devs - Still working on this, started informally where I help my friends with the dev problems they are stuck at work. Working on getting paid clients. It is kind of hard because some people just want you to do their work and I don't want to do that. Then there is issue of security. I don't want to get in any trouble but looking at private code of some company.

4. Related to tutoring, I try to blog about every topic I help someone with. Not getting any traffic. Not sure how to compete with SO.

I am not really sure what my next steps should be, I have tried so many things, people don't really take me seriously anymore. I am really looking for something that I can do online without selling to friends and family. Makes me feel like the bad guy from the Founder.