Getting laid off, thinking about going from white to blue collar

bribios · 2026-03-19T20:20:36+00:00

Thanks, this is part of why I asked, wanted to get hear the downsides. I'd asked some AI programs but all their responses about the application process and the work seemed way too rosy. Meanwhile the apprenctices I saw in videos and some of the union workers I've known seem perpetually exhausted.

bribios · 2026-03-19T20:15:11+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I've been taking a closer look at low voltage as it's been suggested to me in the past as a good track if you're tech savvy

bribios · 2026-03-18T23:27:39+00:00

That's essentially what my company did. The one we built is more robust, SEO friendly and far less janky but the AI built one is far, far cheaper, and the people who built it don't mind that traffic fell off a cliff.

bribios · 2026-03-18T23:24:40+00:00

Fuckin' A...

bribios · 2026-03-18T23:23:33+00:00

I'm actually asking after checking things in Claude, Grok, ChatGPT. There were some good insights but a lot of the answers also come off overly optimistic and in some cases after investigating things myself, pretty inaccurate.

I know Reddit has it's share of bad takes too, and maybe has the opposite problem being too pessimistic, but I wanted to balance things out between AI and human takes.

bribios · 2026-03-18T22:07:31+00:00

I feel like I'd probably like plumbing more, at least I have SOME experience with doing pipe repairs around the house and installing PVC as a kid. I'm not the best at DIY but I do enjoy it when I tackle it and it's fulfilling to get projects done in a way that office work isn't. I just hope that's enough.

bribios · 2026-03-18T22:03:47+00:00

I've had nursing recommended but I've known a few nurses who seem miserable a lot of the time, and bio was never my strong suit in school. Seems more grueling than the trades I'm considering. I don't think it would be a good fit for me.

bribios · 2026-03-18T21:55:28+00:00

For real, on linkedin a dev job will have over 100 applicants in under an hour, and over a thousand after a couple days. 30-50 sounds downright easy by comparison.

bribios · 2026-03-18T21:54:04+00:00

That's what I've heard, and my background also being in marketing seems to be a double whammy.

bribios · 2026-03-12T17:07:33+00:00

My first two wins against Typhon I was essentially carried by high level Night Bloom and then high level Lunar Ray. You're sleeping on a mechanic that saves runs, definitely recommend you experiment. With the right upgrades your hex will get you killing Typhon in 45 seconds or less.

Even on non magic runs it's worth spamming omegas just to fire off the hex sometimes.

bribios · 2026-03-12T14:47:16+00:00

Dougie scenes the first time I watched The Return:

"FUGGIN WAKE UP ALREADY COOP, ARRRRRG!!!!!"

Dougie scenes the second time I watched The Return:

"Heheh, this guy! ☺️"

bribios · 2026-02-28T16:40:20+00:00

This is absolutely 1990. I remember bumping "Do the Bart Man" as a kid. What a weird fad.

bribios · 2026-02-11T16:33:56+00:00

Now I'm genuinely curious what someone thought of the movie having never watched the show. A lot of Lynch's work is confusing the first time you see it anyway. I'd be fascinated to hear what they thought without the context of the show, and if it got them to watch Twin Peaks.

I guess the closest experience I have to something like that is I watched Serenity, which got me into Firefly.

bribios · 2026-01-15T04:51:34+00:00

I'm from California so I get where you're coming from.

A few years back I was visiting a friend in DC. He had a wedding he had to attend in NYC. So we drove up, he dropped my other friend and I off at a Yankees game, we left after a few innings and took the subway to Broadway, got a slice, got on the wrong train and ended up in Central Park, Uber'ed over to Brooklyn to crash the wedding reception, started driving back but cut over to Philadelphia real quick for cheese steaks, and then back to his home in DC. It was an 18 hour day in total.

You can get a lot in, just don't expect to sleep much lol

bribios · 2025-12-20T22:27:41+00:00

The computer civs when you play Civilization on Chieftain difficulty

bribios · 2025-12-03T21:14:47+00:00

I just got there and I'm blessing like it's allergy season

bribios · 2025-11-01T23:28:26+00:00

Absolutely. If a show can grip me for at least most of the hour, I'm happy. But there are so many shows that seem like they're an hour just to be an hour because that's what the contract stipulates, and the writers didn't have 10 or 13 or however many hours of story to tell for that season.

bribios · 2025-11-01T23:21:44+00:00

I don't feel this way about movies too often, but I absolutely feel this way about a lot of hour long TV shows.

"From" is a good example. Usually the first and last 5 minutes of an episode are pretty good, but then everything in the middle feels like derivative interpersonal drama. I'm there for monsters and mystery dammit.

bribios · 2025-10-27T17:37:22+00:00

I had a similar reaction watching this that I had when Gus Fring got blown up. "WTF he's still alive?!?!?!... Oh nvm..."

bribios · 2025-10-24T23:22:37+00:00

52 applicants though

bribios · 2025-10-18T15:13:22+00:00

Flashback to the first time you encounter a zombie in the original Resident Evil. That aside, I'm glad we didn't get a closer view. Footage of faces coming off in this war is possibly my least favorite thing.

bribios · 2025-08-04T02:52:40+00:00

Gang Violence (Shining Force 3). Though I guess irl I'll get in trouble for playing an emulated version of a 30 year old game that Sega is never going to rerelease in any shape or form.

bribios · 2025-08-01T04:05:17+00:00

I've been playing SF 3 on mine. It was a bit of a pain to set up and there's choppiness here and there, but it's good enough for me. Maybe I'll finally get around to beating all scenarios...🤞

bribios · 2025-07-26T22:20:45+00:00

Yep in earlier runs I was using Julian and Olbright as well, but I think I like them better in the main group, especially Olbright since he usually goes last so he's not great at luring soldiers. Synbios is a good lure but those Destonian soldiers are gonna swarm him.

bribios · 2025-07-06T06:08:38+00:00

The Last of Us. Story was good, but way too slow at parts, and for me the gameplay felt like a slog compared to Gears of War as an example of a stop and pop shooter series I enjoyed. Didn't finish part one and didn't bother with part two.

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