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Tomorrow I'm going back to school and they start at 9. Going to look, and might turn into an associate degree if I sign up. I can't get a job anymore without a degree it seems, so, we'll simply have to fix that.
But.. 17 years ago, a girl asked me advice on finding work and I advised her that school. She walked in my footsteps then to become a coder, and now I'm following hers to get a degree.
Life is pain, princess. Anyone claiming otherwise is trying to sell something.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Best of luck to you in your school work and in finding subsequent employment. With your credentials and achievements I do not understand the need for a diploma. It is a shame such is required as few things are more pleasurable then studying to mastery a subject in one's own home at one's own time and in one's own way.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: Best of luck to you in your school work and in finding subsequent employment
Tx 
BernardIE5317 wrote: With your credentials and achievements I do not understand the need for a diploma
None will hire me without, despite history. Dem achievements don't count no more.
BernardIE5317 wrote: It is a shame such is required as few things are more pleasurable then studying to mastery a subject in one's own home at one's own time and in one's own way.
I can survive a few weeks, trying to learn for-loops from a "master".
To make it worse; I cannot start at that school, because I miss the minimal education for entry 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The University of Liverpool would let me go for my Master's based on work experience, but I wouldn't be able to get a tax deduction because they were not accredited at the time (for remote learning? or something); so I passed.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I could buy a bachelor a few years ago; the paper degree doesn't guarantee proficiency.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Good luck. 
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Tx
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thank the great Ghu I made it to retirement before this sort of insanity took hold, I dropped out of school at 15, started coding in my 30s (in VBA of all things  ). My last CV summary was 4 pages long and that was 20 years ago and now I'm probably unemployable.
Good luck and may the learning be pleasurable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Good luck and may the learning be pleasurable.
It's hard to be a student; last time I stood before them as a teacher.
Now, someone is going to step up to learn me python.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Good move.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Great, best of luck!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I can't get a job anymore without a degree it seems
One would think that a person with many years of experience would be a better choice than a newly-minted B.Sc, but then the hiring managers would actually have to exercise judgement, and couldn't fob hiring off on HR. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hey, good luck in your new adventure. I am sure you will do very well. Stop by here for the codez when you need them.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Gonna go off the rails here for a second…
Lie on your resume?!?!?
Do you think most employers bother to check?
I have recovered now. That would be bad. Nobody ever lies on a resume!
Or you could just leave a four year gap in your CV and when they ask about tell them that is when you went to Yale. When you get the position tell them
“Thanks! I really need this yob!”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
modified 23-Nov-22 9:09am.
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DRHuff wrote: Or you could just leave a four year gap in your CV
I have multiple gaps in my resume; also a few spots where I quit after a year.
I'm not the type of person to thank for "this job", I'm just selling skills and labor. That's a take it or leave it proposition, and what you see is what you get
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have a PhD in Computer Science that an agent once told me to leave off my CV as he said hiring managers don't like "over-qualified" candidates. So I just used my Bachelor's degree for a while and that seemed to work fine in most cases. Don't worry about the "level" of your degree, any type will normally do.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I was worried about the place itself, and whether I can keep my big mouth closed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's the portfolio. I did a whole bunch of little freelance jobs for remote clients that resulted in getting attention landing longer term contracts ... which led to another contract based on what I learned previously, etc. But all remote.
One goes back to satisfy "IT recruiters"; not customers who just want a good solution.
With "IT shops", when you think it's about a degree, more often it's ageism; which contracting and freelancing doesn't suffer from (in my experience) ... because everyone knows it's temporary.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: because everyone knows it's temporary.
Everything is.
"Even this, shall pass away."
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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About a month ago, I started having problems with my bluetooth mouse...lagging mostly. I've had this mouse for over a year now and it's always had minor hiccups where it might lose it's connection for a few seconds, but mostly worked fine.
One of the first things I did was to swap the bluetooth mouse for my laptop's wireless (rf) mouse. At first it seemed to work, but I quickly noticed that it also was losing connection, mostly when I was working on my secondary monitor.
The second thing I tried was a brand new Logitech wireless (rf) mouse. Nope, same thing, it seemed to work at first, then the experience got worse, especially when working on my secondary monitor. By worse, I mean selecting text/line with a left-drag was impossible, clicks were randomly 'ignored'...there were many times where I had to just get up and walk away from it. 
At least the Logitech mouse came with software that showed the device connection status. As I was working, I could watch the connection drop and reset depending on mouse actions. I could even cause the connection to drop simply by clicking once a failure occurred and hold the connection closed by keeping a mouse button down. Hmmm, maybe it's the USB port? Swap the rf receiver to another port and it works...for a minute, then starts failing again. 
Finally, Google produced a result that mentioned that for best results, there should be no obstructions between the device and the receiver.  Bingo! Winner!  Watching the connection status in the Logitech software, it became abundantly clear that my desk was interfering with the connection! My mouse sits on the front right of my physical desktop and the cpu sits on the floor just to the right of the desk. It's a mere 28 inches from the corner of my desktop to where the receiver is plugged in. My mistake is that I assumed that rf would bounce/bend given such a short distance.
I remembered having a Linksys USB extender (from when N became a standard) so I dug it out of a cables drawer and hooked it up. The receiver now sits in a nice little stand on the back right corner of my desktop at around 16 inches from the mouse, though it seems to work flawlessly up to at least 36 inches. It's nice to finally stop fighting with the mouse, but annoying to think how much frustration I went through without seeing the real problem!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I had the opposite issue with Logitech M187s (of which I've had several over the years). I mouse right handed, and if I plug the receiver in a USB port on the right side of the laptop, so the operating range is maybe 6" or 8", it hiccups. Dongle in left side USB port, all is cool.
Big wooden desk on steel frame, lots of 2.4GHz signals flying round the room.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have the Logitech M215 and experienced similar behavior. Occasional lag when USB receiver gets blocked by hardware like a USB external drive, just move keyboard and mouse closer or move drive. I use desktop.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My muscles are relaxed and I feel so good! I've just discovered that Win11 added the option to open Task Manager when you right-click on taskbar. I know there are many other ways of opening the Task Manager but my hands just have muscle memory and every time I wanted to open it, my hands would right click on the task bar just to see that the option is no longer there (by this time brain will kick in and click on Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open said Task Manager).
Imagine my surprise this morning when hands again went to right click and eyes noticed the old/new option. Not sure when this happened but sure was a nice surprise. Soon Win11 will look just like Win10 but with rounded corners.
Mircea
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I think that's a challenge that Microsoft face - they have to usher in the new version, but not too different from the present one.
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That's my problem with all major version Windows upgrades. I'm all for the additional security, support for new devices and device types, etc., but why do they have to mess around with the UI? 
(I don't mean the way things look; I mean the keyboard shortcuts, context menus, placement of options in "Settings", etc.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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