I feel bad for you man. Why don't you apply for a temporary job at local coffee shop or a grocery store until you get a proper tech job again? ~50 hour per week even at minimum wage in CO ($10.2) should cover your rent, right? You will have Sundays and night time to apply for developer jobs.
Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
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Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#182- Public libraries can help with the job search if they offer free internet access - If you don't mind camping, its an extremely cheap way to live, and a gym / YMCA will help before interviews. - If you have any friends / family, ask them if you can crash. Have a friend who lived this way for ages. - If it comes to it, there are often abandoned structures that are reasonable for keeping rain off. Lived in an abandone…
> Send me a msg (email in profile) FYI, your email is not displayed in your profile. The "email" field in your profile is only visible to the moderators. If you want to publicly share your email address, it needs to be included in the "about" field.
Thank you. Was not aware. Figured if I included it in the info it was viewable. Changed.
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#183- Public libraries can help with the job search if they offer free internet access - If you don't mind camping, its an extremely cheap way to live, and a gym / YMCA will help before interviews. - If you have any friends / family, ask them if you can crash. Have a friend who lived this way for ages. - If it comes to it, there are often abandoned structures that are reasonable for keeping rain off. Lived in an abandone…
Sidenote: how does a place like AL have so much government money poored into it?
Its like gravity. You make a divot in spacetime, and things being to roll downhill toward the divot. Mass collects, attracts other mass, and soon you have a significant planetoid. Leave it alone long enough, you have a star, or in the case of some places, a black hole.
In HSV case, several significant divots. NASA MSFC, Army Materiel Command (Logistics), and the Missile Defense Agency. Caveat on living here, if WWIII happens, we will get nuked.
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#184I’ve been there. Transition to your car, but find someone or some place to stay before worrying too much. You’re off the grid, so look and plan where to start again. In the future, always plan for this. But for now your life will be reset. Just go with the best you can.
Once you can think, stop and do so. Acknowledge you are a SJW and as a result, lost a standoff with your previous employer when you brought it up. That company isn’t going to risk the livelihood of its employees, even if you might and did.
What did I do? Living in my car there’s few options, so I took a job canvassing for causes I believed in. It paid nothing, but I got out there doing my SJW stuff and felt better.
When I got off the streets, stayed with relatives, found a tech job and moved out, I learned somethings.
I never have enough info. Social justice causes are fine, but if you don’t have all the info, you’ll lose. Support agendas only with all info.
Second, make commitments and stick to them. I agreed to work for an employer, so to accuse them of bad data practices is not the right move. If the company bothers you, leave, stop trying to ‘change the world’.
Finally, be prepared. Jobs can be lost at any time. Apartments are not yours, be prepared to move at any time. And stop spending. Buy what you need. Adults do not need workstation computers, they need laptops. Not toys, Legos, Funkopop dolls, etc. Those are for kids.
Yes, after 15 years most have saved or diversified. Improve your handling of money.
Some turn spiritual at this point and pray your body stays healthy. It’s a strange journey called life!
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#185I’ve been there. Transition to your car, but find someone or some place to stay before worrying too much. You’re off the grid, so look and plan where to start again. In the future, always plan for this. But for now your life will be reset. Just go with the best you can. Once you can think, stop and do so. Acknowledge you are a SJW and as a result, lost a standoff with your previous employer when you brought it up. Th…
> I agreed to work for an employer, so to accuse them of bad data practices is not the right move.
It's the ethical move. Just because you agreed to work for an employer doesn't mean you have to accept everything they demand from then on.
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#186> I was 3 days late on my rent this month and now have to appear in court to explain why i haven't paid. I fully expect that to lead to an eviction. wow that's harsh. I own a house in the UK when the tenants lost their job but promised one was lined up. They didn't pay for 2 months, then the tenancy agreement was up and I told the estate agents to not renew it as I cannot afford to pay for these people to live in my…
The role of a landlord is parasitical by nature. I expect your tenants were just redressing the balance.
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#187Doesn't the eviction process take at least a month? How long will it take you to land a new job? It seems pointless to have to be homeless if you're able to land a job within a month or 2. Are you in a position to borrow money? Maybe even an online lender like bestegg. You could setup a bitcoin wallet and livestream yourself coding, I feel like a person in your situation is a kind of person I would be willing to dona…
Having been in this situation, I'd recommend against borrowing money. Only family and friends will lend it to you, and you know you can't pay them back anytime soon. Unpaid debt puts a strain on any relationship, and OP is gonna need all the support they can get.
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#188I’ve been there. Transition to your car, but find someone or some place to stay before worrying too much. You’re off the grid, so look and plan where to start again. In the future, always plan for this. But for now your life will be reset. Just go with the best you can. Once you can think, stop and do so. Acknowledge you are a SJW and as a result, lost a standoff with your previous employer when you brought it up. Th…
> I agreed to work for an employer, so to accuse them of bad data practices is not the right move. It's the ethical move. Just because you agreed to work for an employer doesn't mean you have to accept everything they demand from then on.
No, it’s not his company. He needs to leave.
He’s naive if he thinks they need his ‘extra advice’.
Sure, make judgment calls without all the info. Get fired. Your choice.
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#189Can you get your old job back or is that bridge burned?
Re: Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
#190I was in a similar position post divorce. Drove away from the family home with next to nothing and was sleeping in the car. That was actually not as bad as it sounds - I worked out and showered at the gym, and spent a lot of time in the office - sometimes sleeping on the sofa in the break room if I thought I could get away with it. I remember one guy came in one morning and joked with that old chestnut "you been here all night?" - I would laugh, but little did he know!
Then the company went bust almost overnight - VC pulled the plug...
It was then a lot tougher. I moved to Thailand and lived on my credit card. I got some remote work with a borrowed Windows laptop, and did some marketing work for local companies. I then moved to Malaysia and became a dive bum. Best time of my life. I was lucky.
All I can say is hang in there, things have a way of working themselves out...