I’ve been on YouTube daily for ~15 years and my experience is totally different. I found NJB via the YT algorithm and I don’t get any recommendations for AI spam channels. In fact, I get a pretty steady flow of high quality channels. Periodically, I have to hit them 3 dots on the recommended video and click don’t recommend this anymore. This does a pretty good job of filtering out crazy political videos and low quality reactionary content.
I live in Houston currently and the heat is absolutely oppressive. Most days going outside feels like exploring Arrakis. It’s dangerous to go outside while the sun is out, lest you spontaneously combust.
It’s steadily been getting worse, year after year, but this summer is the worst I’ve ever experienced.
I’ve already decided this is the last summer I’ll spend here. If I don’t land an in person job here in the next few months, I’m packing up and going to Denver or Seattle.
This summer in Boston has been the coolest summer I ever experienced in my life (colder than last 4 summers in Boston) including 3 summers I spent in SF (which, as the famous joke goes, are colder than its winters). So, maybe Boston is a good option for our climate change future?
NYC this summer was disgustingly hot though! So maybe this Boston thing is a random statistical anomaly.
Do we live in the same city? The last few weeks has had multiple days over 90 degrees, with a very minor respite when it rains. We haven't even hit August yet (which is typically way hotter than July).
Also FWIW, the entire New England area may be prone to forest fires as bad as the west coast if the region continues to dry out. There is no management of brush in Maine or Vermont or New Hampshire (or even Canada for that matter).
You also can't exactly predict the effects of climate change on regions. I don't think anyone ever thought Washington or Oregon state would experience 24+ hour 100 degree heats during the summer, but they did and will likely experience it again in the future.
There definitely were warm days, but I think overall it was a cold summer, coldest I personally experienced. I've been in Boston since 2018. E.g. night were quite windy and cold, also it rained quite a bit. It was a chilly, windy, wet summer, which is something I enjoyed. It was extremely easy to cool my house down, only worked the AC at the worst of the heat at Eco mode.
> So, maybe Boston is a good option for our climate change future?
Unlikely, given that places nearer to the poles have experienced greater variations. But I don't think Boston is at existential risk or anything like that, with ample water sources and enough elevation aside from a few places.
It will be a fantastic place for HVAC contractors over the next few decades. Not enough homes have AC (and the ones that do are underpowered), and there's a huge imbalance of tradespeople vs. PMC-type people, so the former will be able to command much higher rates.
I grew up in northern US, then used to live in Saudi Arabia / UAE and now I live in Houston. Honestly Houston just feels "warm" to me now, even on the hottest days. The "Khaleeji" GCC area of the Persian gulf is just so, so, so much worse. Even New Orleans felt just a touch worse to me than Houston, but neither compare to Qatar/UAE/the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
I often jog or bicycle 3 miles to work in Houston during the summer and enjoy plenty of daytime outdoor activities in my late 30's.
Before my first visit to the Emirates, I made the (what seemed to me) reasonable assumption that it was a dry heat, since sand dunes are literally right next to the city. Boy, was I wrong about that one.
Unrelated to climate, but speaking of unpleasantness indoors, the Houston airport authorities decided to let a barbecue restaurant open in the middle of the newest, nicest terminal at IAH, with smoke pits and all. It smells strongly of smoked meat 24 hours a day (or so I assume, as someone who has been in that terminal at both 2 am and at noon in the last few weeks). It’s completely intolerable and frankly kind of disgusting.
And I say this as someone who loves BBQ! It’s just too much, too soon, as soon as you step off the plane. I can’t imagine spending a long layover there.
I worked as a cybersecurity engineer for 2 years and I've applied for over 300 _entry level_ developer jobs over the last few months and still haven't heard back from most places. It's definitely not just you!
I've heard from family and friends that are still in the tech field that most companies still have a hiring freeze in place and that this will probably stay in place for the remainder of the year, maybe even into Q1 or Q2 of next year.
The best idea right now might be to get _any_ job (even entry level positions) and just hunker down while we wait for the market to recover before we can apply for jobs that are more commiserate with our experience levels.
I decided to go back to school and get my Masters in CS while I wait and I'm also planning on doing some web or app development on the side just to pad my resume a little.
I'm sorry I can't help any more, other than to say that you're not alone in this :)
Unfortunately, when it comes to online applications, there is never a reason given beyond "We appreciate your application but we have decided to go with a different applicant."
As for interviews, I did a few technical interviews last year and discovered my data structures and algorithms knowledge was a little weak. I did spend some time practicing leetcode questions to shore up my knowledge in that area.
This year, I haven't managed to make it past phone interviews where my lack of (specifically) work related technical experience was brought up every time. I was told several times that my work experience, educational background and hobby projects (like homelabbing) were impressive, but did not make up for the lack of previous software development experience.
I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...) and I've tried to emphasize these acomplishments on my resume. I was also recently promoted to global team lead, and I believe there will be some more oppertunities to work on technical problems so I will keep this in mind for the future!
> I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...)
Do you consider devops types of roles software development and something you'd do? Those tasks you describe sound like sys-adminy types of things. Maybe try applying to that type of position?
Another option is to just get same role you have now but in an organization that has people writing code as a major deliverable of the company. I'm assuming there aren't teams like this in your current organization.
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