virtueman

A visible, tangible tool was needed to help reduce collective panic. Masks were used as a prop to serve that purpose, regardless of the actual efficacy of masking in reducing disease transmission. You walk into a room where everyone is masked, you can take your stress down a few levels, and continue on with your life.

March 3rd, 2009

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

This is the point of standup. Give the worker anxiety and pressure him to do more work. During my years and years of standup, I never learned anything useful and I doubt anyone else did either.

The good news is that management generally doesn't understand the low level details, so you can project confidence while using technical jargon to make them think you are far more productive than is the reality. It's really just a performance.

They are tradeoffs certainly, those benefits generally come with less pay.

I do agree they are in the minority. It is possible if you own your own practice. But also attainable by most physicians willing to work locums, essentially being a substitute doctor. You can take gaps between these locums contracts to travel.

- extreme longevity of a career (if that appeals to you) or retire early (if that appeals to you)

- ability to help people and even work directly with/in international communities to promote global health (eg, doctors without borders)

- dictate your schedule including working minimal hours

- answer a calling (life is more than money)

- ability to work in any area of the country or world (every city needs a doctor)

- solid job security and pay for your entire life

- respect / social status (people want to have a doctor as their friend / spouse)

- ability to develop and maintain social skills (ie, be more "broad") which are exercised as a physician significantly more than (in my experience) as a software engineer

- have months of vacation every year without any consequences

- life time of growth and learning

Take a year to go teach english in a foreign country and completely immerse yourself in the culture. What do you have to loose...

In the context of prostitution, the bed should be seen as a sacrificial stone. People often 'choose' this work - sacrifice themselves - because they can care for aging, ill family in ways that would otherwise not be possible.

Sex work irreparably destroys one's ability to desire or enjoy intimacy. A core function of what it means to be human is completely erased.

Through first hand experience, I have gone from being completely pro-sex work to now viewing it as an evil industry.

Absolutely do not do that. You are too early in your career and have too few funds. Once you are unemployed, you will experience fear and panic unlike what you've known. The US is a tough place and this is how many people end up on the street. With the economic situation becoming more precarious, it is almost certain that you will be forced to accept even worse conditions than what you have now. At least with your current job, you can negotiate from a far stronger position.

In short: you are risking either 1) running out of money and accepting a worse job or 2) running out of money, not finding a job, being an unemployed aging adult who lives with his parents, and being rejected by recruiters for an increasingly large gap in your resume.

Look, I get it, work sucks. But the alternative, for those without sufficient funds, is far, far worse.

My advice - apply to new jobs like your life depends on it. Find new pleasures in your life; bring new fun and interesting snacks to your work place; listen to new music while you work; change the color of your IDE; just, overall, find a new perspective and tough it out for a bit longer.

They have healthier livers because they drink tea instead of alcohol.