"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
but are u now like a convicted felon type a deal where the cops have a hardon for u every chance they get like u see on tv ?
no more right to vote?
I've been one of those since I was 18. So no voting.
Sorry guys for not answering much, catching up with life and time with family.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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but are u now like a convicted felon type a deal where the cops have a hardon for u every chance they get like u see on tv ?
no more right to vote?
I've been one of those since I was 18. So no voting.
Sorry guys for not answering much, catching up with life and time with family.
Aren’t we your family?
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Nope no job, 18 years there and gone
Boss fought for me HARD. but we was bought out by ECO3 some conglomerate that does business in anything that turns a profit. Essentially a hedge fund but for businesses. it don't care what that company does, it cares about if it makes them money.
So one less employee, one less retirement fund to grandfather in...yada yada.
Now got to try to find a software engineer job as a 51 year old, good luck to me
I got about 40 grand to live off of, or 4 months or so. Going to there cost me around 100k between bail, lawyer, lost wages, paying for stuff while i was in there..etc.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
I work on the frontend side of newspaper production software, building customer-specific workflow customizations and interface behavior in Java and JavaScript.
Our software doesn't "do" anything when you install it. It's just a blank slate/framework. I do the front end workflow building to whatever they want/need it to do.
its all web based. And this is what it looks like:
All the things on the right (this one is a simple workflow, mostly all one line), I add, customize, program behavior for it, and which ones they need and the logic that the workflow path uses to pass to the next.
And filename regex parsing on whatever custom filenames they want to tell us, and so we know what PDF is what page and putting it in the correct folder on the right.
Like a reallllly simple name: 090726 CM 01A32.pdf
I break it down so I know its September 9th 2026, pubcode CM, version 01 of page A32. Then store it in the left side tree and do PDF 'stuff' to it like preflight, layer flattening, color corrections for print..yada yada.
Well..I DID. Not anymore. Was there since 2007.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Sounds like a niche industry that might not be well understood by recruiters or even recruiting managers these days. You should take the time to distill specific technologies (Java and JS is too broad) you've used (and want to continue using in your next job), and break down how you used those technologies in your current (long time) job. You probably haven't maintained a CV/resume and/or LinkedIn, so it's a good time to polish those as well. On LinkedIn, in particular, make sure to populate keywords for each job, since that's how recruiters find profiles. And set your LinkedIn profile as "open to work" with that green badge; it sounds ridiculous, but that really boosts your discovery. If you are interested in web front end technologies, it is a good idea to take some time to at least familiarize yourself with that world, as it's a fast moving subject, with new technologies popping up left and right. I'm not really of the web frontend world, so not sure how those interviews go usually, but I'm taking a guess that you haven't done much interviewing since you've had a steady job; consider doing some interview simulations just to get a feel for modern practices.
For the two primarily US companies I've worked for (current and a previous one), had to go through a "background check" process with a company named "Sterling". My guess is that bigger companies use that crap, but smaller ones might not, so you should carefully choose where to apply or entertain a recruiter's offer, at least initially.
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