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- grafician0
For months now, re: the major layoffs in tech, from twitter to linkedin after reading many posts and re-posts, I got to the conclusion that many if not all of those cut were very much "online persona" type of people
All very self-conscious, with tons of followers, newsletters, selling all kinds of shit, promoting stuff, going to conferences, tweeting non-stop and having opinions on everything under the sun...except showing anything work related and such.
Just an observation, I guess...
Discuss, if need be. Maybe a lesson here to be learned
- If you post lots of "I'm really excited about..." posts you'll get cut for sure it seems.grafician
- the laptop class. they were the workers of the big corporations that own(ed) the post 2010 internet economy.uan
- opinions on everything and never shows work... sound familiarmonospaced
- Yes monospaced just like yougrafician
- OBBTKN3
To bed now. Tomorrow I'm going to do bbq with friends, for a ton of cycling aficionados as the Tour de France passes through our town, I will make Hi to tv copters, stay tuned!
Lol
- YakuZoku0
Just got word 3 houses got robbed in my neighborhood this morning while i was out surfing, 1 being directly across the street from me, I rarely lock my door but for some reason I decided to lock it today. Now I'm irritated that I have to keep locking my door and start worrying about all the junk I spend my money on.
- BuddhaHat1
Good quick read on Trainspotting hitting 30.
https://www.theguardian.com/book…
“The horrible thing is that Trainspotting was supposed to be a cautionary tale in some ways,” says Welsh of his 1993 novel. “But now, 30 years on, you can’t really see it that way any more.
“You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]: don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”
- On reflection this might have been better off in the World is Fucked thread. oh well.BuddhaHat
- OBBTKN21
Upadates and pics from the Le Tour arrival to our town.
All day cloudy and raining, and choppers barely recorded aerial images of our valley, but I caught a while to take some glorious images. The guy in the black shirt and blue beret was what was left of me, suffocated by the heat of the embers, LMAO!
- <3palimpsest
- <3Continuity
- That first photo belongs in the I Want to Go There thread. For real. Sigh.Continuity
- Further down that road in 1st pic, there is a txakoli winery, they prepare an exceptional grilled tuna ;)OBBTKN
- holy shit, are those guys slacklining across the whole valley?scruffics
- I'm gonna miss Sagan next year :(
glad to see you made the most of it OBB! That new Lidl Trek kit looks cooler than the Segafredo kit too.BuddhaHat - What is "slacklining"?shapesalad
- https://en.m.wikiped…
Something you would surely hate.palimpsest - At this point I don't know why you would think any human activity is fit for you.palimpsest
- lolscruffics
- flolContinuity
- ❤********
- Oi, Wordworth ... check your profile page, mate. ;)Continuity
- :) Mate my powers don't allow me to have that much power over the technical side of things. So sorry for the very late response though. Paging QBN overlords...********
- @scruffics, 400m long, not all valley. We hoped that the chopper would focus on the man in the fluor suit, and show a zoom-out of the entire valley, but no luckOBBTKN
- @wordworth All good, no worries! Thought I'd ask anyway. :DContinuity
- @Wordsworth
Let me know if you need help.palimpsest - Looking Great, Felix!!! <3PonyBoy
- Thanks palim, the requests been posted on my profile, if you could help a user out, that'd be awesome man. Much appreciated.********
- TdF is always great Winter viewing for us down under. Starts around 9pm and often finishes after 1am! Love it and try to watch as much as I can. Nice pics.sab
- Simpsons frog throat gifcannonball1978
- oey_oey0
A few questions regarding file formats and other users methods:
Does anyone here saves their scans of drawings in TIFF instead of JPG?
Does anyone use PDF instead to edit in Photoshop later?
And, does anyone save gtheir AI files as PDF instead of AI?The last question is because some documents that I send as PDF can still be editable and I end up having two files.
Any other file format use preferences?
- what is your question?
tiff is cool, takes lots of space to save. but it's lossless instead of jpeg.
AI files are PDF, ai format is based on pdf.uan - in ai you have the option to check / uncheck “Create PDF-Compatible File” on save...maybe that's the issue.uan
- and pdf is a container, it supports pixels and vectors (and more weird stuff).
there are diff methods to write a pdf that save vectors or pixels or both.uan - my question is what's your system of saving. I can edit PDF files without checking that option.oey_oey
- sorry, uan maybe it was not clear, but those are three questions asking if anyone uses PDF instead of PSD and AI and if anyone uses TIFF instead of JPG.oey_oey
- I used to save scan files as TIFF but in recent years I started to use mostly JPG.oey_oey
- not sure pdf for psd works...because of layers. tiff has layers. tiff instead of jpeg because of lossless, though png would also work.uan
- and about my preference...I just don't save no more. just produce/export what is needed and move on.:-)uan
- :-)oey_oey
- thanks uan!oey_oey
- I only send PDFs if the recipient isn’t opening it in illustrator. Native files are for other designers. You can uncheck editing in the pdf before export too.monospaced
- Having a copy as both illy and pdf is totally normal. Usually I have one Illy file and lots of pdf exports of it (versions). They’re all illustrator in the end.monospaced
- I store high quality photos as psd files or tiff so they have no compression. But fike sizes are huge. A top quality jpg is fine for high res photosmonospaced
- @mono there's no way to guarantee someone is not opening it in AI but you are absolutely right though.oey_oey
- I used to send invoices in PDF. Straight from AI. Now I open them in PS and save as PDF again. Yes, I have an invoicing app but still use AIoey_oey
- It doesn’t matter to me if they open it in illustrator. I just don’t send illustrator files to people who can’t open them. :)monospaced
- PDFs are good for everyone because you can view in email and don’t need special software to view them. And they preserve fonts etc.monospaced
- ^ exactlyoey_oey
- tiff only for scans jpg is a waste of scan time to intentionally lose detail. pdf for file interchangeabilityimbecile
- what is your question?
- doggydoggdog2
I still wonder about a girl I was in love with in college 14 years ago and have only talked to once in the last 10 years and weirdly now works with a company close to mine across the country.
She's 1 of 3 "what if" women, and would have made my life completely different.
But she's married now and seems to have a great life.
She went on to have a great career, after we knew each other and I struggled.
I wonder if I would have been more successful with her, or if she wouldn't have reached her potential with me.
- I wish someone told me at 22 that just because I was young, didn't mean I had to waitdoggydoggdog
- Don't think about it. That's in the past.********
- There is a saying that says: "Past water does not move a mill", leave the past alone...OBBTKN
- Turn up naked outside her work and squeeze your flesh against the window like a mollusk in a fish tank. Should win her heartPhanLo
- There's always https://www.urbandic…PhanLo
- go get some hookers and blowpango
- Dog, you not happy in your relationship?drgs
- A mi me gusta esa expresión OBB.BuddhaHat
- See you next month when you post this again?duckseason
- section_0142
Picked up a battery powered lawn mower recently. My old mower started surging real bad. And my years of dealing with small engines like this indicated it was the carburetor. Which, are 0% serviceable since they're plastic, and one solid unit.
So, instead trying to fix this thing, I decided to look at electric, and picked up one of these: https://www.lowes.com/pd/EGO-POW…
It's been raining like crazy (including the last two days), and my yard is at least a week overdue for a mow. So, I had about a 1/4 to a 1/3 of an acre of long, wet, thick grass to deal with.
Here's my initial impressions:
Good:
1. It's lighter than the old gas mower. Not terribly lighter, tbh, but lighter none the less.
2. It rolls SO much nicer. These wheels have ball bearings in them vs. the old mower that just spun around a metal shaft. So, while the initial push to start moving isn't terribly different, once you're moving, the lighter weight and smoother roll really make a difference. Plus, turning around to mow the other direction feels smoother. Was surprised by this part.
3. It's so quiet. I wondered if it was even working a few times because of how little noise it made.
4. It cuts every bit as good as my old one. I contemplated setting the blade higher to deal with the high grass, but figured I'd put it right to the test in wet tall grass. It powered right through. It rev'd up a little higher from time to time. But, my old mower would have been bogging down quite a bit more.
5. Folds up and stores upright to save space, or to clean off the deck. This is pretty awesome, actually. Plus there's handles to pick it up with.
Not as good:
1. I don't bag, because it would take twice as long to cut. So, I used the side chute thing. Which attaches to the back, instead of the right. Which didn't seem like a big deal, until I kicked it off pulling up a hill and ran it over.
So with the chute properly destroyed, I had to mulch the rest of the yard. Which, it handled just fine, tbh. The worst part in the back yard was already done, so I didn't put it to the ultimate test. But, under normal conditions, I assume it will do just fine.
2. The handle position isn't the best for pulling up hill. There's a bunch of spots I need to do this in. My yard is like 5% flat, so I'm always dealing with hills. I probably just need to get used to it, but the old one had a perfect angle for this.
3. I'm probably going to have to get another small battery to finish the front yard. When I finished, it was on the last bar of life (which went to 1 with probably 20% of the yard left). Which makes sense since it took me 50 minutes, and the battery is rated at "up to 55 minutes". But, I booked it for the last part of the yard so I didn't run out of juice. Will probably see how long it lasts with shorter, drier grass.
Overall, pretty happy after a single cut. Didn't get self-propelled, because they're shit on most every mower that's not like $800.
Hope you enjoyed my 4th of July, border line "signs you're getting old" post about lawnmowers.
- Isn't this our second electricity-powered lawn mower post this year? lol
Signs QBN's getting old :)Nairn - i wish more people use electric mower. the noise ruins my morning!!pango
- My neighborhood dads apparently coordinate and work in shifts so there’s always someone mowing, 24/7scarabin
- ^ that is one sinister plan!pango
- I mow the lawn and weed whack front and back yards plus trim the hedges 100ft and the battery is still good. Ryobi from Home Depot though but yeah get a longer1_niko
- NICE! I bought an EGO earlier this year and love it. You can adjust the height of the handle - there are two positions. And the less you use the self-propel...stoplying
- ...the longer the battery will last. I've started hosing it down when I finish (battery removed) and tip on its side to get the blades.stoplying
- Good luck! Every electric mower I've had (3 so far) lasts just about 3 years before failing in some way or having the battery discontinued by the seller.evilpeacock
- Isn't this our second electricity-powered lawn mower post this year? lol
- imbecile0
- whichever line I'm looking at.Nairn
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- For an eye_niko
- e-pill7
hello.
- fuck you candy!pango
- ‘Sup, e!scarabin
- kiss kisse-pill
- yeah!!!!!!!oey_oey
- E-PILL! Hope all is good with you :)BuddhaHat
- :*Continuity
- Hello, Edward.PonyBoy
- is it me your looking for?_niko
- hi e! <3sea_sea
- goodbyemilfhunter
- Heymonospaced
- There he isYakuZoku
- hans_glib0
is there any reason the search function has been removed from the filter?
- it's still there, maybe you are blocking google.shapesalad
- I hate googledrgs
- Ramanisky20
Questions ...
What are the best cheapest cell phone plans/carriers out there?
Do you guys use family plans?
What are your monthly bills like?
I have 3 phones I want to put on a plan.
- I'm quite happy with 1&1. Got my phone and internet with them for sub-100 € per month.
Of course, you have to be in Germany. :)Continuity - We have plans from Telekom for like 10 euros 4G unlimited everything
Orange throws in also TV servicesgrafician - 4 phones, tv and 1gb fiber, for 70 eur aprox. in BaskelandOBBTKN
- ^ That's a really good price!Continuity
- I'm quite happy with 1&1. Got my phone and internet with them for sub-100 € per month.
- zaq22
I am super proud of my wife for finally publishing the book she had been writing for ages. It's probably one of the last books written without ChatGPT's help.
- I dealt with small publication consignment authors for years and know how much effort and dedication goes into getting it to press. Good for her!BuddhaHat
- Galileo, Galileo...sausages
- Did you design the cover?canoe
- I helped with the designzaq
- Why.. did you photograph them in the bathroom?Nairn
- I keep a book, some magazines by the shitterdrgs
- Horp6
Yesterday I bought a really shitty BMX off Gumtree for £35. I pulled the wheels apart, fitted new bearings, and added thise wheels to my WTP custom paint build.
The £35 BMX was a super crappy 2012 "Redline" (Chinese owned, Taiwan made hi-ten steel frame) aimed squarely at the young kid market.
It was being sold by a local man of around my age (50-60) who has around 40 salvaged bikes listed on Gumtree at any given time.
He was telling me what an amazing bargain I was getting because it's a Redline and they are the best. He clearly has fond memories of 1980s 1st gen Redlines when they actually were good bikes.
He didn't realise what a true bargain I was getting though, because at some point very recently the owner had decided to invest in some decent wheels, hubs, and Oddysey Pathfinder tires.
To cost those up to fit to my build would have netted out at around £300 for a basic 9t cassette freewheel. More for a free coaster hub.
So I got two complete wheels and tyres for £35 and the rest of that piece of shit is now lying on my junk pile waiting to go to the tip.
I bought an entire GT BMX last week, but it was listed as "BMX parts" and came in various bags of components, a frame, forks two sets of handlebars, two wheels etc.
"BMX parts" cost me £10 and netted me a Fly bikes crank and BB set and an Eclat stem. So those are on my build, and the rest of that GT is also on the junk pile with the Redline.
I might make up one other BMX out of the junk and give it to a charity shop or leave it outside with a "free to take" sign on it.
People don't know how to do basic bike maintenance anymore. Every time I buy a BMX the wheels are seized or the bottom bracket is screwed.
The bearings are always shot and it's a simple case of replacing them.
But people squirt WD40 in the approximate area, think that'll fix it, and then.gice up and sell the bikes when it doesn't.
Crazy world. Takes ten minutes to fix.
- WD40 was the bane of childhood bike maintenance. It took me years to realise it's not an actual lubricant, in fact sorta the opposite.Nairn
- Yeah same. I used to think it fixed everything. These days I'm not actually sure what it could be useful for.Horp
- It's probably perverse but I get more excited about buying a BMX with seized wheels and cranky cranks than I do about a well maintained one.Horp
- Because I can feel a sense of superiority over the dumb fuck who is selling it because it's broke, and I'm getting a bargain because of their idiocy.Horp
- wd40 is good for taking stickers off things. once you remove the sticker gunk, rub on some washing up liquid and it neutralises it.PhanLo
- ^ Nail polish remover works a real treat, too.Continuity
- Depends what sort of adhesive is used - acetone is useless on a lot of the adhesives used on paper stickers. Will try WD40 though - sounds promisingNairn
- Support your local bike thief, lol.
Questions: Were they unsealed bearings? If so, Whistler is the way to go.garbage - Horrible grey goop that will wash off your hands in about 5 years.garbage
- You said Fly BB and I had flashback to the Spanish BB era. Please tell me it's not a Spanish.garbage
- Here's one that might crack you up: Always built my own bikes, was pretty serious about it for a while. I'm talking lace my own wheels..garbage
- ..truing stand (which there is no science to). But there was one weird thing that I think only east coast BMXers did.garbage
- Degreaser on the cassette. Everybody in our crew had the loudest fucking bikes in the world. "Chainsaws on helium".garbage
- pic or didn't happenArchitectofFate
- @Garbage, it's the very common BB with the R12-2RS races direct into the frame. is Spanish BB the ones with the great big cups holding the bearings?Horp
- I've not got into lacing my own wheels. Truing though is a bit of a chaotic art. I can do it quite well but if I haven't done it for a while it's tricky.Horp
- Really loud greaseless cassettes is still very much a thing, but less common now, with the freecoaster hubs.Horp
- What's Whistler? They're sealed bearing hubs. I do get open bearing wheels sometimes but I'll convert the hub casing to take sealed with a bit of surgery.Horp
- throw some pics in the BMX thread. I had an old GT with a laid back seat post.fooler
- Ech I would Fooler but it's too much of a faff to throw pics in here and I have about 4million of the buggers.Horp
- I'm using hot water (almost boiling) instead of degreaser, melts away all dirt around derailleursdrgs
- I'm convinced that degreaser penetrates the wheel bearing and thins out the grease theredrgs
- Whistler is that grey gunk that comes in a can, it's used on unsealed bearings. Spanish BB are so fucking tiny and Fly was pretty much the only company..garbage
- ..making them for a while. Still better than the Euro BB, which was a screw in situation instead of a press.garbage
- Pretty much everyone broke their bearings on install. Mids for life.garbage
- You should totally post some, the BMX thread could use some lovin'.garbage
- I miss my mongoosecannonball1978
- "I'm convinced degreaser penetrates bearings, thins out grease"
Same. I don't use degreaser anywhere near bearings.Horp - Well, that''s what WD40 was designed for, it's just that none of us stupid kids read the destructions when we were young... . WD40, let dry/wash, grease.Nairn
- I have such strong memories of my bikes working great for a day or three after WD40'ing, and then... notsomuch. lol.Nairn
- Nowadays I have a tube of grease to keep the rails in my laser running smooth - I just happened to lube those fuckers up this morning. Odd timing for me :)Nairn
- flol yeah. I think that many people really buy the rebrand of the "40 different uses".garbage
- And those uses are manifold. But the answer is in the title:garbage
- WD stands for "Water Displacement", and there were 39 failed formulas before they hit their stride.garbage
- Wd40 helps undo rusted on boltssausages
- At a push WD40 can help with stuck bolts, but it's nowhere near as effective as a thin penetrating oil which dissolves rust, or plusgas.Horp
- Back in the 80s/90s I'd spray WD40 on everything. These days, I cannot think of a single reason for using it. It excels at nothing. It's a marketing legend.Horp
- Smells quite nice though.
OH! Flame throwers. It's awesome for flame throwing.Horp - When I was a yougin', there was a kid on my bus that would take shots of WD40 on the way to school. He also ate Vaseline because his mom swore by it.garbage
- I'd put the whole bank on that guy being dead right out of high school.garbage
- Horp2
BMX then.
I went into lockdown at the end of a two decade classic car restoration hobby. I had a 77 El Camino at the time and I'd spent two years with it in pieces in a shared workshop that belonged to my friend.
It was a driving car when I bought it but the bodywork was badly rusted in places and needed a full strip down and rebuild.
Then my friend told me he needed his workshop to store furniture while he knocked his house down (which I helped him do. So much fun) so I had to finish the bodywork, reassemble it and drive it out of there, for about a year.
A couple of weeks after getting it back home, lockdown struck, and the Elky just sat there outside being pretty fucking useless. It did 8 miles to the gallon and all of my work for the year had been cancelled as it was all overseas. So I had nowhere to go and couldn't afford to throw petrol down it's throat just to drive it around for leisure. Not at UK petrol prices with no income.
So I sold it, and I realised when I sold it that I had got to the end of that hobby. It didn't interest me anymore. I'd rebuilt engines, done panel work from raw sheet metal, welding... I'd stripped and rebuild every possible thing at least five times on at least five cars. I was bored of it all, completely.
So I sold all my equipment too, and told my friend I wouldn't be coming back to the workshop, and I got out of that hobby completely.
... and straight into BMX. So small! So quick! So Easy! So Cheap! So much fun!
I started buying BMXs with my El Camino money. Realised people sold them "cheap cuz broken". I fixed them, cleaned them up, made them look box fresh and sold them. During lockdown I averaged around £20 to buy, £50 maximum for any minor new parts needed (inner tubes, bearings, tires etc), and I'd sell them again for around £250, often with a nice new paint job.
Then I got a really old Cult. Maybe a 2014. It had been rusting away in a dad's garage after the son had gone off to Uni. I paid £10 for it.
It was in a realy bad way but it was my first Cult and even though it was an old one, I really like the Cult brand and I wanted it for myself.
Stripped it down, stripped the frame, borrowed my (workshop) friend's professionally fitted out spray room and sprayed the frame and forks gloss black.
Slowly over time I indulged (like a kid) in all the fancy components for it. Totally stupid but when you're hearing about a new kind of crank set or the latest this and that, it gets addictive. So I had state of the art 2020/21 components on what was really a very out of date frame with really long geometry when everyone else was going short.
Then I tried signwriting on it in gold, and it failed, and I discovered a spectacular new effect. A gold wash over gloss black. It looked the nuts.
So I'm down on Brighton seafront every day during lockdown, 51 years old, doing tricks with all the BMXers who range from 15 to 25 years old. They're all going nuts for my "goldwash" vintage Cult.
This one guy really wants to own it.
I keep telling him it's a really old frame, but he's insistent. He offers me £350. For a £10 bike.
So I tell him I'll sell it for £350 but with a less fancy crank and some cheaper, heavier pegs. He agrees.
I wave goodbye to my much loved Cult, never to be seen again.
I buy a WeThe People Trust and start hitting a disused set of concrete quarterpipes in a shitty park near my house. Horribly designed place but I have it all to myself all day every day.
Pic of the ramps here...
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/…
Then I bought a Kink Williams frame because it had insanely short geometry and you know, that means easier to manual and more whippy and all that guff.
The local skate ramps have a spine. I'd never been over a spine before. I'm a fairly mild rider. At 50+ years old I get the fear. A bad break could really fuck my life up for a considerable time. So I don't get too ambitious.
BUT
The spine. It's there, every day, and I know eventually I'm going to go over it.
I start off going up, hooking the spine behind my front wheel, then kind of clambering over. Getting a feel for it.
I'm doing that faster and faster every day but I have the fear and I can't make myself just go for it.
Then one day I'm sat on the platform opposite and something comes over me and I drop in and go directly over the spine. I didn't give it any thought at all, I just got the urge and went.
But somehow, I did something wrong, like I pulled up when I should have pushed down... I don't know... but I was essentially heading into a somersault which ended with me trying to slice myself in two by landing back first on the spine with my bike above me.
Talk about pain. Fuck, I have NEVER felt anything like it.
I was winded and could not breathe at all. That took an insane amount of time to get better. I honestly thought I was going to die from lack of oxygen.
Once I started breathing again, I moved on to the fact that I couldn't feel my legs, Sarge. Nothing. Not a fucking thing. They were as good as somebody else's legs. They were kind of folded over me, buckled awkwardly, but I could not move them. I had slid down the spine head first on the side I had launched from, and I was just a rag doll now at the base. I had the bike on my face.
I was terrified. This is a park that people don't go to. The ramps are hidden behind bushes and trees in a corner that nobody ever goes to. I'd been there every day for weeks and seen literally no other person in there.
My phone was about 30ft away at the top of the ramps, where I would never reach it.
So I started shouting and screaming.
After maybe 25 minutes a local came to investigate, saw me there, and walked off again.
About half an hour after that, a police car pulled in and a police woman came over. I begged her to call an ambulance, and she did.
About 20 minutes later an ambulance arrived but they wouldn't move me due to the danger of permanently severing my spine.
They did various tests and had devices sent over and scanned me and did all sorts.
Then they said they were going to try and move me without moving my body parts at all.
Which was crazy because I was like a human pretzel on my back with my legs kind of next to me.
Anyway, got to hospital, my spine was okay but really badly beaten up and I was bed ridden for weeks until I could feel a metal point being scraped along the soles of my feet.
It was about three months before I could move properly again. About two more months of low level pain after that.
So now I just buy BMXs, paint the damn things, ride them around a little, get a little bit of air on the ramps, and then sell them on to fund my next one.
I am too old for this shit.
- Horp6
My vintage Cult with the gold wash paint job...
My WTP on the spine that almost fucked me up real good...
- I always wore a helmet on the ramps. Fat lot of good a helmet did me that day though.Horp
- What's with the welding at the front of the top tube? Some sort of BMX cut'n'shut?Nairn
- Looking at the protruding coping on that spine, I guess my front wheel jilted outwards, and I impulsively pulled 'up' in response.Horp
- Nairn, no it's a really badly compressed image with weird smoothing artefacts making it look like that.Horp
- Maybe this is clearer. It might be the swirly gold wash thing warping the compression effects...
https://i.ibb.co/dtV…Horp - https://www.youtube.…zardoz
- lol, so many points here.garbage
- I hate parks unless they are shitty, and I could totally see a bump fakie 3 oop into that box. Bump fakie bar smith if it was waxed.garbage
- "Vintage Cult" makes me feel.. so old.garbage
- And you run your bars Chicago-style? The nice men in the white suits will be around shortly.garbage
- I have them vertical. I'm not far off 6ft and having them lined with the forks is too short for me. I set my bike how I like it, not how the crowd says :)Horp
- Vintage Cult makes you feel old? I use the word loosely. It was around 2012-2014. That's not actually vintage. I forgot how 'precise' QBN is about words.Horp
- This is the difference between vertical bars and Chicago bars by the way...
https://bmxsociety.c…Horp - Cult pic was taken after I 1st mocked it up: loose chain, ragged brake cable, seat high. Thrown together. I'll dig out a pic of how it looked before I sold it.Horp
- It's still on the original bb, cranks and wheels in that shot too. I folded that back wheel within days. Pulled it straight then folded it again next day :)Horp
- Maaku16
Hey everyone, just passing by to say hello. I don't really come to QBN as often as I did in the past but I hope y'all are doing good.
A minor update from my side: I tried branching off of Graphic design during the pandemic. Like many, it started as a hobby, doing 3D and even some VFX but the truth is that after 15 years of back and forth with people trying to figure out what they want, I am sick and tired of designing for someone else. I like creating stuff for fun everyone now and then for myself, but that's about it.
I want to take a stab at becoming a Pentester and I am currently studying to get my CompTIA Security+ certification, next month.
I'll let you know how it goes.- Nice to hear from you stranger.
- "Stranger Danger"utopian - I'm considering a similar pivot, let me know how it goes. CompTIA+ is a cakewalk, you're pretty much paying for the cert. EC is running a racket, but..garbage
- ..I will say the CPENT materials that a friend of mine legally obtained went waaaay over my head.garbage
- !!YakuZoku
- @garbage the cost is around $392 for that one, then I'm looking into getting the EC-Council CEH Certification that goes for $1200Maaku
- Sounds expensive but salaries for Pentesters aren't bad at allMaaku
- I'm watching these videos: https://www.youtube.…
as well as the Cyber Mentor YT channelMaaku - And the self-paced Cybersecurity Analyts career path on the Networking Cisco Academy websiteMaaku
- fuck you candy!pango
- *waves nicely*Horp
- Design etc. is a great skill to have, but it's not a long-term thing for 90% of us, at least directly. Either you move into management or woodwork.. lolNairn
- Yeah, both good channels. If you want to safely acquire all of the literature, friend of mine suggests slsk.garbage
- Apparently there are hoarders with everything you'd want to read in epub form, but what do I know?garbage
- https://media.tenor.…Maaku
- Will look into it, thanks garbage. Woodwork sounds cool but I don't have the space for it, NairmMaaku
- nice, I pivoted to cyber security as well, your design skills will be a huge value add in that sectorspot13
- I did all of this 12 years agodrgs
- I switched from Graphic&Web Design to Inhouse UX at Tech Company a few years ago. Never looked back. Better life balance, better hours, more respect...microkorg
- ..better money, better (and faster) career ladder (started as a designer, now manage a team of 5).microkorg
- Nice to hear from you stranger.
- Horp7
Following on from Maaku's post below, apropos career changes...
I've meandered far and wide from my starting point as a designer. I burned out as a designer really early on. I was trained in traditional print and reprographics and worked for five years before going to college from 1991-1993.
By the time I left college, the entire industry had revolutionised, thanks to Apple Mac. Absolutely nothing I had learned carried over to my post-graduate career.
I stuck with it for about 20 years, more or less (<guesswork) but moved into strategy, then shifted into illustration (total blag that kind of worked for a short while) and then went into culture analysis.
But I'm so fucking bored and faded out now. I only work fixed term contracts. I neither want a permanent role nor to be flitting about doing 14 shitty three day freelance gigs on top of each other. I tend to be in large advertising agencies with FTCs, and it is pure fucking chaos in those places now.
Everything must be done in 12 hours, and everyone is obsessed with TikTok and Instagram.
I am 53, and male. My peers in this field are around 20 and usually female. They live and breathe social media. They look at TikTok for 15 minutes and produce an "insight" eg "Gen-Z females are SO hot for the #SassGirlHermitGothcore vibe right now... it rejects the blah blah blah and opens up the doors for XY and Z and YOU GO GURLFRENNND TWENNY-FOUR-SEVEN-THREE-SICKY-FI...
I look at TikTok for three days straight and all I can see is fucking teenagers being dorky fucking tweakers, desperate for attention.
I AM FUCKING TIRED OF IT ALL NOW.
So I'm having a career break (inflicted on me due to serious family issues) and I am currently applying for local driving jobs. Driving vans.
I have always planned to do my heavy goods vehicle license, but the pay is shit, the lifestyle is shit, nobody likes HGV drivers, and it costs about £6k to qualify, so fuck that. I am not paying £6k to discover whether or not I would actually want to do that all day every day.
Van driving also pays pretty badly but it doesn't cost £6k to do it.
It's a big step though. I will cut my annual income down to 15% of my earning potential as a strategy/insights/culture consultant. But I figure if I can find the right hours, I'll use van work as my basic and then pitch myself out a few times a year for a bit of freelance consultancy to make up the shortfall.
I have a job interview for a family business in the fruit trade. Hours are 2am to 9pm weekdays. Job interview is at 2am :)
I reckon I could do that, then do a bit of consultancy, then go to sleep.
- The tweek shall inherit the urf.Nairn
- You said 2am to 9am, no?OBBTKN
- I did yes :)Horp
- Streets will be empty. I love driving.Horp
- Why not? Good luck!!OBBTKN
- FanksHorp
- There are good design jobs out there if you look for in-house. Either medium to big corp institutes in finance/consulting/i...shapesalad
- insurance... or if you are into crypto has plenty of good jobs:shapesalad
- lots of small dev teams of 30ish people, then you as their only designer doing site, exhibitions, social, brand etc.shapesalad
- https://cryptojobsli…shapesalad
- https://web3jobs.soshapesalad
- My tip - look at the big VC investment fund websites - they'll list the 20 or so startups they have invested in and will have a job board that coversshapesalad
- all the open jobs across all those 20 or so startups. You'll often find a good quality design job where if the company growsshapesalad
- you can build out the team and get yourself into a good position.shapesalad
- But agreed - a lot of design is now social media this and that, and it's all shit.shapesalad
- And about to get shittier with the mid journey “ninjas” running the show_niko
- Oh hey Ss, To be clear I haven't actually been a designer since about 2003. I have absolutely no idea how to be a designer anymore.Horp