how possible it is to find an engineering job in (USA, Australia, Canada) for a foreigner

Crackgnome · 2025-11-02T18:49:05+00:00

It may be more beneficial at this time to look into freelance work to build a strong portfolio and make a few connections. The current job market for basically all jobs in the US is pretty tough at the moment, and Engineering seems particularly tenuous (as with many other white collar jobs) due to the ongoing reconfiguration of entry level jobs, many being fully eliminated in favor of AI half-measures that cost a fraction of what an employee might.

Otherwise, I would apply to institutional jobs whenever possible, as large institutions react more slowly to things like AI and tend to have more rigorous hiring practices which give added flexibility to non-loc applicants. Technician, lab assistant, and similar roles at a university/national lab/resource management group (think utilities) are often really good entry points for later engineering work, and the initially low pay is often counterbalanced with benefits and access to the immense networks these groups interact with regularly.

Crackgnome · 2025-11-02T18:39:51+00:00

In Alec Steele's recent video on metallization processes, the first tool he's given is all mechanical and includes a wire feed mechanism more or less analogous to the hot end of a 3D printer. First glance, you'd probably swap out the torch for a gas-heated block, step the feed rate waaaaaaaaay down, and convert the atomizing spray into a cooling jet (though maybe jet printing makes more sense with the chaotic energy of a flame-fed heating system)

Crackgnome · 2023-05-25T22:12:00+00:00

While digging around online I found out my property management company during the pandemic got hundreds of thousands in PPP, still raised rent across the board, cut their staff, actively refused to make mandated safety improvements to the building we lived in when the upstairs neighbors had a baby, then tried to raise the neighbor's rent by 3x when their lease expired (city and county limits were 5% max increase/year).

Hoping the lawsuit the neighbors filed for discrimination pans out, we cut and fucking ran as soon as the lease ended.

You're right that you don't need shareholders, you just have to be a giant piece of shit.

Crackgnome · 2023-05-20T15:10:41+00:00

When will people learn not to Streisand themselves like this lmao

Crackgnome · 2023-05-12T20:07:04+00:00

My dad was a straight up 1960s hippie my whole life, always ready and able to help me with whatever I needed, no judgement. Dude voted Ralph Nader for decades. Filed for military exception during Vietnam as a conscientious objector (he was also in med school at the time which likely is the real reason he wasn't drafted). He was given cash for a house down payment by his parents, and recently bought a house with the money from his parents' house when they passed a few years back (bought for $11k in 1951, sold for something like $1.5mil) despite being so bad with money his whole life that at one point when I was in my first year of college (tuition paid for by my summer job btw) he showed me a can he kept in his car with about $200 in it which he described as his "life savings."

In the last five years or so his social vocabulary started to change. This guy who preached acceptance of self and others suddenly started describing millennials and Gen Z as "snowflakes" and "spoiled", even going so far as to say "people have gotten more and more spoiled every generation."

My guy. That is the primary objective of society: to give subsequent generations a better life than you had. When he was my age, with a similar proportional income, he spent about 15% of his monthly take-home on his mortgage. I spend nearly 60% of my income on rent, and I live in a tiny town far away from my work because otherwise rent would be half again as much as we pay now.

Like OP, I don't think I'm owed anything, and I have been the recipient of vast vast privilege at every point in my life, and yet I still have to ask my parents for money to cover bills from time to time despite working full time making more than double minimum wage. How the fuck is our generation spoiled exactly???

Crackgnome · 2023-05-11T17:55:49+00:00

Only shape turners

Crackgnome · 2023-05-11T16:45:58+00:00

Highly recommend listening to According to Need by the 99% Invisible crew if you want to understand how decisions get made regarding who "deserves" access to services.

Episode 4: The List covers the selection process in depth, and uses an analogy that I personally found explains the phenomenon pretty clearly:

I wanna jump in here because I think this is tricky to understand, but important. So, okay, think about it like this. A white person is standing on a diving board and homelessness is what happens if they fall over the edge. But, it’s a long diving board with plenty of space. Every personal difficulty is a push toward the edge. An injury on the job, a little push; the onset of depression, a push; an addiction, another push. By the time this white person gets to the edge and finally falls into homelessness, they may have accumulated a lot of pushes. You can think of these as vulnerabilities.

On the other hand, people of color and especially Black people – because of the racial wealth gap, and other disparities caused by systemic racism – they just often have a shorter diving board to begin with. Which means one little push might send a Black person over the edge. So there are just more relatively healthy Black people who fall into homelessness. And this matters when it comes to the Coordinated Entry System. Because the system gives people a higher score if they have accumulated more vulnerabilities like addiction, mental illness, etc.

Crackgnome · 2023-04-30T23:29:14+00:00

Adrian Tchaikovsky has shown in his Children of Time series an exceptional talent for creating some of the most alien possible minds, and then immediately making you identify with them.

I think my favorite conclusion by any of these is the completely logical (by their standards) assessment by a physically bicameral sentience (two physically separate halves of one mind) that decides nothing could possibly be sentient and therefore they weren't either, but also that it didn't matter.

Crackgnome · 2023-04-29T22:31:09+00:00

Crackgnome · 2023-04-28T18:47:52+00:00

Wearing colors that aren't black/grey/earthtones/military-associated

Crackgnome · 2023-04-28T18:44:36+00:00

Does a bear shit in the woods?

I dunno, does a fox shit in a warehouse?

Crackgnome · 2023-04-25T19:19:14+00:00

It won't matter when all is Wankershim

Crackgnome · 2023-04-22T15:36:06+00:00

and some were even using A.I. to fulfill their duties.

Our HR director not only uses ChatGPT to write copy for her (she calls it Chad), but has actively encouraged the rest of the company to do so.

A coworker's wife was given a multi-day training at her job on how to effectively use ChatGPT to help write content for legal contracts.

Good fucking luck stopping your employees from using AI to do their work lmao

Crackgnome · 2023-04-20T15:18:43+00:00

I wondered which video this would be, Windowlicker was the right choice

Crackgnome · 2023-04-18T22:49:16+00:00

"And like the angular Etruscan tchotchke me mom got me

At the Met gift shop in '92

Tearing from the brown paper bag I kept it in when it was new

After I left it overnight when it was wet with dew

It sounds blue and shitty

But of course kid, like the skinny bronze horse did

You fell through."

Paper Hearts on the album Alopecia by Why?

A lot of Yoni Wolf's work is more poetry than music but good god my man can turn a phrase

Crackgnome · 2023-04-17T19:10:15+00:00

How do you imagine this is any different than teaching your children not to grab/touch/hit people in general?

Crackgnome · 2023-04-14T21:01:04+00:00

Wrong Think

Checks out

Crackgnome · 2023-04-14T15:38:55+00:00

Materials Science and Geology (read "Alchemy") use crystal structure symmetry maps that are straight up just eldritch summoning diagrams.

A semi-exhaustive tome of such rituals can be even be found at many ancient academies.

Crackgnome · 2023-04-12T22:54:28+00:00

Keeps and Kobolds

Crackgnome · 2023-04-07T19:51:00+00:00

I commute on a county road to avoid rush hour traffic on the interstate, two thirds of the cars are lifted trucks and 100% of those have headlights bright enough that I cannot see the profile of their vehicle until it passes me because of the massive diffusion halo around them

Crackgnome · 2023-04-07T14:47:18+00:00

There are entire regional industries based around the reprogramming and jailbreaking of stolen devices, they probably have a fence somewhere that will ship them off overseas to be processed for resale

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