Friday OT - A Series of Unfortunate Events
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If you squint, you can see the Iowa State bridge.
No one says you have to fully retire.
I'll probably volunteer at the high school when I retire. Both kids will be there.
Or maybe I'll do something else, but I'll do something
The commercial showing a slacker using AI to rewrite his messages because he is too unskilled and lazy to draft a simple communiqué is sort of shocking to me. Particularly galling is the smug look he has for "accomplishing" something and fooling everyone. Or the one where the guy rolls back out of a meeting and has his AI summarize a report he never read.
I retired 10 years ago and we were already having issues with newer peeps going back 20-25 years ago who were utterly deficient in their ability to write, despite their college degrees. At about the same time our office did not fill the positions they had for writer/editors when those folks reached retirement age. I thought that was insanely sort sighted given the amount of engineering and planning reports we generated, to say nothing about the official letter-headed correspondence.
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I have pretty significant mobility issues due to an inoperable condition affecting T4-T12 in my spine (the center where your brain uses your spinal cord to regulate balance). It's also taken most of the flexibility and muscle tone out of my left leg. The ultimate cruelty is that I have all of the strength in my right leg but none of the sensory nerves are active so I can't feel the leg that works.
I'm early 40s and walker dependent and use an electric wheelchair for distance. My existential dread is that I become a burden on someone. I have a great job, I can do all the things that I want to do and I'm just really worried that if/when this progresses that I'll be a burden and resented. I don't want to put anyone in that situation.
I'm early 40s and walker dependent and use an electric wheelchair for distance. My existential dread is that I become a burden on someone. I have a great job, I can do all the things that I want to do and I'm just really worried that if/when this progresses that I'll be a burden and resented. I don't want to put anyone in that situation.
If you're a son or daughter that is not close by of an aging parent, same can be said of that also.
Microsoft gave us a presentation and bragged how the bottom level employees see the greatest benefit from AI use.
The lowest performers are almost on par with the higher level employees. I asked how the higher producing employees can separate themselves.
The answer was an enthusiastic "they'll figure it out!"
So when the ******* at the desk next to a high level employee hits the same production metrics and $$$ it'll be no big deal?
We absolutely do not truly understand what is coming. This is fairly low level stuff. We are in for a bumpy and potentially society changing ride.
Although I am in reasonably good health, I am thinking a lot about my own mortality. And not because I'm afraid of dying, but because I'm afraid I didn't teach my kids enough!
Health. Have recently stumbled upon several youtube accounts in which user goes public, detailing journey with major health issue, in which it ends with the heart-breaking 'farewell' video. Like this:
Think you have big probs? Watch one of these vids.
Think you have big probs? Watch one of these vids.
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Brooks has been great.
Except now any models are too tight, too wide or don't fit me in some other way.
I thought I found a good fit at a shoe store but had to order my pair online for a color (basic) preference. That part was too tight vs. what I tried at the store.
The workers told me the dye in different models may cause them to fit differently.
So instead of keeping it consistent with like 4 different colors that are reliable to fit, there's like 17 models of different (ugly) versions of the same model that don't fit.
I guess Hoka, another one with a good rep does the same thing.
This is definitely me. I can't say I stress about it. But I do feel like I'm starting to realize I'm just not going to achieve my career aims. I hit 40 this year, so still 20-ish to go, at least. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I probably won't make it as far up the latter as I wanted to. I'm grateful for a good job with a paycheck that can support my family, but I'd be lying if I said I was where I expected to be at this stage.
One of my fears is losing ANOTHER home game this year to the Hoks in football. It's bad enough to have all of the Hokroaches show up and walk around the tailgates. They also urinate and puke anywhere they can find (even in front of children). They make my skin crawl and I hate that game every year.
The Netflix series with NPH as Count Olaf was very well done. We rewatched it with the kids recently and the parallels between the "series of calamities" that befall the Baudelaire orphans and the way that all of the adults in their lives don't listen to them and can't see that it's the same bad guys in disguise all resonated a bit more realistically this time around.
It seems like we all kind of feel like that now, that the people we look to for guidance and help are oblivious (or pretend to be) to the real problems going on
It seems like we all kind of feel like that now, that the people we look to for guidance and help are oblivious (or pretend to be) to the real problems going on
Seeing my dad in hospital not doing great has been rough. A few consecutive complications from a minor surgery. Its a glimpse at your possible future - will I spend my last years hooked up to wires, unable to walk or care for myself, surrounded by strangers in a facility, pulled out of the comforts of home? TERRIFYING.
Now, dad has a clear path out, made some huge progress in last couple days -- this isn't the end for him at this time so fear not! Likely will be back running (well, limping) around the house pissing mom off in a month or so, after some PT rehab.
But seeing it, when its YOUR dad, makes it a lot easier to visualize your own future.
It's so easy to check out now, and not really 'live'. For $100 per month you can have the sum total of human knowledge and unlimited entertainment in the palm of your hand.
I know it sounds like "kids these days", but not caring about making some money and having a house and car? Not caring about society, government, history, current events? Not even caring about finding a partner to love and share life with?
If half or more of the population is just existing with no motivation to DO anything, who is going to keep everyone alive? How will society function?
I used to be worried about 1984 (still am wrt China/Russia) but now I am thinking that Brave New World is more like it for the USA. Everyone just checks out.
And I don't even care about me, really. In 25 years I will be dead, so nbd. But my kids are ~30 and I have a months-old granddaughter now too. Well, they don't let her look at any screens, so maybe she will end up as Empress of all the other fool wandering around.
Repeating but when I retire I'll still plan to work, just not something that I have to be tied to out of financial necessity.
You know, something enjoyable.
3 y/o is getting his tonsils out in a few weeks and it's been giving me a little anxiety. i know it'll be quick and painless. recovery might suck a little but thinking of taking him back to the OR so they can put him to sleep hurts ol' coach H's heart.
