AskewLord

my company has hired 3 people in the past month and is looking for 5 new folks.

it's not tech though. it's entry level research and we pay like 45K to start.

we haven't hired anyone since 2023. all our tech staff have been working here for 10+ years and we only one one tech position like every 5 years.

personally i think the economic forecasts are kinda dumb. There is still a lot of demand out there and once mid-terms are over I think the economy will start growing again, esp if they can fix Trumps stupid shit that has really killed growth.

AI bubble will pop but there is still massive demand in other sectors of the economy. Try working for a healthcare company. there are so many great jobs outside of big tech, but the salaries will be lower. our senior programmer is making like 160K, not 350-500K. way too many folks are really arrogant about their salary expectations

the people i went to grad school were smart and nice people who were mostly there for the same purpose I was, hence i became close with them and it was cool. only folks in my life who didn't mock me for reading and studying and learning shit. they all got married to each other and had kids and moved to rural areas and I visit them once every few years.

have had lots of other friends past and present but without that core level of common interest, values, and respect, they pretty much all withered and no longer became worthwhile. I really lose interest in being friendly with people when they show themselves to be spiteful, selfish, and petty.

No, it's because it's considered chivalrous for the man to put himself between the street and his woman to protect her.

It's 19th century crap that dummies still think is relevant, and there are many of them out there.

I've been on this date dozens of times. Had many women ask me if I'm poor and become totally disgusted with me when is said I used to be as a child.

all the time.

have you tried being attractive?

algos and real people both basically don't understand my interests and think i'm a weirdo for them.

i love it.

internet is just for filling the void at work where I can't engage in any productive personal interests, because i'm on company time.

human contact is what makes me go insane though.

not contacting with others is how I feel sane.

I had a lot of nice girlfriends and really fun nice dates from like 2012-2018. Like dozens and dozens.

At least, until they were honest about stuff and they were not so nice. But while they were lying to me the relationships were often wonderful. and I'd have totally married a few of those women had they not been lying to me about who they were.

I really will never understand why folks lie in relationships. Seems like the most surefire way to guarantee you are wasting your time.

that reminds me of one date I had where this woman was super nice and super honest and at the end of the date she told me straight up she was not interested in seeing me again but thank you for spending time with her. It was the the nicest and most pleasant rejection I have ever received in my life. I was not interested in her either, but I wanted to kiss her for being so mature and grown up and assertive. The total opposite of like 99% people I meet who are so passive, and often weird and hostile when they reject you or feel rejected. I've never met anyone else who rejected me and made it so normal and pleasant. It's sad that more folks can't be like her, instead of the normal passive-aggression nonsense where they profess how great it was and they can't wait to see you again and tell you to call them but then ghost or become hostile if you follow up.

nothing. i don't use the internet to avoid work. i use it to fill in the void between things at work.

yeah no shit. this place desperately needs folks who aren't constantly dooming and blaming the world for their personal woes.

my life is great.

not responsible for anyone else's choices. and sick of weirdos who try to tell me i am, i notice such folks tend to be very unhappy with their own life choices and tend to blame other folks for them rather than take make better choices for themselves.

yeah i expect to die alone. i have no close family, just relatives who kind of tolerate me but think I'm disturbed because I am not a Standard American Male. Also can't seem to find any romantic partners that last, just ones that hate me for not being a a doctor or finance bro of their dreams.

hopefully just drop dead one day in the woods doing what i love from a heart attack, and not wasting away mentally from alzheimers, which is my other most likely fate.

my grand parents died while sleeping. my dad died in a hospital choking to death from fluid in his lungs and heart failure, but not before letting me know what a disappoint I was to him. he was a piece of shit human being.