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MollyR

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About MollyR

If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice to other women developers. Take the money from silicon valley, then run to a cheaper place to live. Invest it well, and relax.

ex. Buy a duplex, and rent one part of it out to pay your bills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— Confucius

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    Comment #16510745

    Passion is the biggest red flag from a company to me. It often means we want to work you to exhaustion.

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    I don't like how they buried what I consider the lede. "For the authors of this article, each negative story is overshadowed by dozens of positive experiences, where someone went o…

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    Its for warlords.

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    Comment #16459894

    In our highly globalized world. A civil war in China, India, Europe, Russia, or America is almost guaranteed to spill out due vast amount of global resources already being fought o…

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    Maybe in the western cultures, but I've been hearing variations of the "nail that sticks out gets hammered down" from my korean family for a long time.

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    Comment #16421615

    This is quite true, and Facebook knows it. I thought it was the reason they bought Instagram.

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    Comment #16400863

    I think President Trump proved people are lying to pollsters more than ever. Also Americans lie about guns quite a bit. I've even meet some who don't consider handguns as real guns…

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    I'm really hopeful for this and things like beyond meat, anything that will reduce of the misery and suffering of the animals we eat.

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    My big fear is in our rush to optimize labor/workers for computer science we will make them obsolete soon like most of the other workers in the face of automation and ai. I feel go…

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    Comment #16396248

    I'm doubtful of that statistic. Many americans hate the government knowing what guns they have. Ghost guns are hugely popular for this reason, and only increasing in popularity htt…

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    I'm not advocating for random people with guns, but law enforcement officers. >There are others where there have been plenty of armed security around, even police, and it's done no…

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    Comment #16396138

    I gave a realistic solution for the united states, One that I have personally seen work. You will not be able to do a gun grab without a civil war or extreme violence in the united…

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    Comment #16396068

    It should be a 100%. They also need to get armed security. My alma mater had its own police force, and it was really helped. It reduced not just shootings, but violent crime in gen…

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    I think you are missing the class aspect to all of this. There is a huge amount of documented research of the impact of social class on jobs. Most of society (men and women) doesn'…

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    When I volunteered at a suicide prevention center, I dealt with a ton of college grads who couldn't find jobs, and were depressed, suicidal and deep in debt. They said they felt al…

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    Its seems like they are dropping out of society for some reason. We probably need to go back and look at why people decide to work in the first place. What the incentives were and …

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    Yes this very true. I used to volunteer at a suicide prevention center before my twins were born. I dealt with a ton of college grads who couldn't find jobs, and were depressed, su…

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    Comment #16394525

    Its times like this I wish I lived in Europe. I was recently hit with the facebook 2fa spam, and it was infuriating.

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    My personal theory probably not. Its looks like small but significant percentage of men are extraordinarily sensitive to economic advantages of different activities. I think the bi…

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    When did you get your degree ? I recently looked at some college prices out of curiosity my alma matter is now 50,000 per year with 16,000 in other expenses. I would never have gon…

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    College is a poor return on investment right now. I think more women should avoid it too. The cost of tuition is simply far too high for the real value, of course this differs by m…

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    Wait until you get old (past 35), I'm a woman (ex web deck "ninja/rockstar/etc") and I can safely say the ageist comments are far worse. No one believes you can keep up the develop…

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