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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I very intentionally received only an associate’s degree with the plan being to immediately get a job and start learning from there. It’s worked great. Except that was 20 years ago and now many jobs “require” a bachelor’s or otherwise have the nerve to say that 4 years of on the job experience is the same as 1 year of college.

    In my experience, I’ve seen the same thing. The university time kick starts things. But university lessons are so different than real on the job work.







  • My dad is probably about the same age (currently 81)

    He didn’t touch a computer until the mid 2000s, and he just wanted to be able to email. It was a looooong journey to get him comfortable doing that.

    Since he got a smart phone he texts literally every day, has installed a number of apps himself, can mostly get new services working himself (he did Amazon Prime, with some mild hand holding).

    If anything, I call him more then he calls me!

    It’s doable :)