I’m considered an expert in my field, and with almost 20 years experience I tried what you are suggesting.

The thing all us tech geeks forget about when starting a business, is all the stuff that actually goes into the running a business part of it.

You want to focus on the work, but there are bills, invoices, client and project management, etc.

I had clients, I had projects, but I didn’t have nearly enough time in the day to handle all of it.

Then clients started paying late, causing all kinds of fees to stack up. So even when I had time to do the work, I was distracted and nothing got done the way I wanted.

I tried hiring an admin, but it was too little too late. In the end I went back to being the in house guy at a large company, where I get to focus on the stuff I am good at and enjoy.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be very very aware about all the other elements before going off on your own.

Unfortunately yes. In another post someone asked “what’s to stop Trump bombing Chicago?”. The only real answer is American service members all the way down the chain of command disobeying the blatantly illegal order to bomb Chicago.

At the end of it all, political power really rests in who has the biggest stick, and the biggest stick in the world is the US military.

If the military is beholden to Trump, then he has his kingship, if they honor their oath to the constitution, he doesn’t.

For small projects, I’ll use csv files for my data.

It’s much faster for me to prototype concepts in simple text files than designing and building a database.

Once the project matures or scales large enough, I’ve usually reached the point I’m going to rewrite it from scratch “the right way”, so will build a database if it makes sense.

Maybe one in twenty projects reach the point it’s worth moving.

Laughed at the humor in a game? High on life had some really good stuff in the opening hour.

Laughed at the situation in a game? My recent play through of the ever chaotic madness that is Far Cry 2.

No, not in the sense you mean, it’s a 5 door hatch back. The gold standard was always “Can it fit a sheet of plywood?”, and no not a chance.

With the roof rack it can carry whatever ,including the giant tree that fell on it five years ago that makes me not care if I carry anything on it.

If you have the money, buy the all wheel drive Volvo wagon, it’s what I’m looking at next.

2014 Subaru Impreza sport wagon and I couldn’t be happier.

Had to basically replace the entire tans at 80k miles this year, but otherwise bullet proof.

After many such threads I’ve come to the conclusion that peak car is between 2014 and 2018.

I’m old enough to believe I’ll never have to drive something with a touch screen.

I design touch screen UI as part of my job and I can see no argument for one in a vehicle other than GPS, and for that I have my phone.

Was at multiple events through out the day in burbs north of Chicago. Nothing but relaxed peaceful people waving signs and honking horns.

For me there is no line. I do not have a military super power at my disposal.

If the US military is on one side of the violence, there is no force on earth I’m aware of to counter that.

We have to protest peacefully and in larger numbers to be sure if that time comes, they are on our side.

Both should, one does. Don’t sink to their level.

Hope she’s not a fan of sport fishing.

I’d be happy loading a backup copy from around 2012.

I am so glad I’m too old to worry about any of this shit.

Just boggles the mind how little science has to do with the CDCs decisions.

If my company is looking at my Lemmy posts all I can say is what a huge waste of time and resources.

I did it for a few years, and blew through all my savings in the process.

Had to start an actual business, LLC, and deal with all the parts that as an engineer I absolutely hate.

Had done about 15 years in the industry with a small tech company, had all the skills, leads, etc, and wanted to do it on my own.

Way underestimated how much time and effort the running of a business part takes, and while I had projects, I didn’t have the time to do them right, payment was always late so my profit shrank, and I burned out in two years.

Hired an admin to help with managing the projects and clients, but it was too little too late.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be sure to have all those other elements well in place, cause the actual time spent programming was pretty small.

In the end I took a role as the on site guy for a very large company, making decent money, and I’m back doing the parts I enjoy.

Best of luck to you.

Why is there a next target? Are we at war? We used to declare war on everything, drugs, poverty, crime, but we didn’t send in the Marines.

This can’t be the new normal.

Nothing to see here, move along citizen.

Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.

1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.

2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.

3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.

Not wringing my hands, in fact I never stated whether I was actually against Trump bombing cities, I just answered what was stopping him.

That was the question, and the answer is still the same.

As far as my lifting a finger? Well, short of the usual civic duties like voting and such, I’m not getting involved.

The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.

I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.

My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.

Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.

I’m going stick with my plan thanks.