I've been in between jobs for several months. I have less than $1k in the bank.
I had a confirmed job offer from nVidia. Then yesterday, I was notified they just went into a "hiring freeze" due to their stock being down. So even though they have 2 billion dollars in the bank, they can't hire me. Poof, I just went from "decent living" to "likely impoverished". (I've been in the process of getting a job there since January. Everything went very positively at every step of the way, so I didn't try to pursue anything else.)
My wife is displaying signs of schizophrenia, which has become acutely evident to both of us within the last several months (and slowly evident over the last 5 years). We're both freaked about it, especially because there is literally nothing we can do. She was just hired at a coffee shop, so there aren't any health benefits. And since we're married, she can't use her father's insurance.
I personally suffer from either hemorrhoids or rectal cancer or stomach ulcers --- I can't go ask a doctor because, again, no job = no health insurance. So I try to ignore the blood and quietly hope it's nothing serious, even though there's a possibility it might be.
Where's my charity? I don't get any. And I don't want any, unless it's to help my wife.
Because people are supposed to deal with their own problems.
It's not easy. In fact, it blows. But that's why they're called "problems". You just deal with them. You have to.
If you want to be charitable, then email me an offer to let me work for you remotely. I have a decade of experience and can solve virtually any software task. There's just nothing in St Louis MO, which is where we happen to be stuck at.
I don't need to hire anyone and don't hire people based on charity. I do however make monthly donations to registered charities (in the UK), and I pay my taxes, while asking politicians to raise my taxes.
I've been in between jobs for several months. I have less than $1k in the bank.
I had a confirmed job offer from nVidia. Then yesterday, I was notified they just went into a "hiring freeze" due to their stock being down. So even though they have 2 billion dollars in the bank, they can't hire me. Poof, I just went from "decent living" to "likely impoverished". (I've been in the process of getting a job there since January. Everything went very positively at every step of the way, so I didn't try to pursue anything else.)
My wife is displaying signs of schizophrenia, which has become acutely evident to both of us within the last several months (and slowly evident over the last 5 years). We're both freaked about it, especially because there is literally nothing we can do. She was just hired at a coffee shop, so there aren't any health benefits. And since we're married, she can't use her father's insurance.
I personally suffer from either hemorrhoids or rectal cancer or stomach ulcers --- I can't go ask a doctor because, again, no job = no health insurance. So I try to ignore the blood and quietly hope it's nothing serious, even though there's a possibility it might be.
Where's my charity? I don't get any. And I don't want any, unless it's to help my wife.
Because people are supposed to deal with their own problems.
It's not easy. In fact, it blows. But that's why they're called "problems". You just deal with them. You have to.
If you want to be charitable, then email me an offer to let me work for you remotely. I have a decade of experience and can solve virtually any software task. There's just nothing in St Louis MO, which is where we happen to be stuck at.