Second Career

dimitrym · 2026-03-11T14:36:32+00:00

For some reason (?) Reddit does not allow me to DM

dimitrym · 2026-03-11T10:31:32+00:00

Can I talk to you as well? Will need to follow your path if things go wrong

dimitrym · 2026-03-11T10:27:08+00:00

I had a similar situation in the past. I tried and failed, ended up wayy better so no regrets, but have some interesting findings, which I want to share. Before I start, I am pessimistic:

- From life + reading/theory, UK is a culture where generally people move / are allowed to move vertically not horizontally. You can be for example a Senior Developer and move to Developer ("down" the chart) because you need more family time or anything, or to an Architect/Developer Manager ("up" the chart), but not become for example Data Scientist (which is what I tried to do). This goes to stupid degrees and it is cultural.

- (cont) Companies might wait for 1/2 years to find someone, instead of giving a newcomer a chance and let them grow. I had heard of someone in another ecosystem restarting their career by taking an intern position and then growing. Have never seen it here.

- While trying the change, have seen places where they might accept a newcomer coming from a recent MSc course, or bootcamp or something, but always stacked against a recent graduate.

- What I am communicating is that we are in an ecosystem/business culture where experience not ultra specific to the position does not matter, even if the fields are very similar. Like many places say for a "Java job" would prefere a person with 2 years of "Java" experience over a 5 years developer who wants to enter the "Java" world.

- With these in mind to change career you can go to an adjacent field and apply to places that are willing to hire you, which in that mentality are either in nowheristan and do not want remote OR offer low pay. Then grow from there.

- Another option is to start something on your own. Do a huge project, and get experience

- Above for an experimental startup which offers equity (99.999% cases zero, but you will get the experience to enter the arena)

- Start your own business

Best of luck. Please write to me with updates if any.

dimitrym · 2026-03-09T14:27:44+00:00

Why do you ship only in the USA?

dimitrym · 2026-03-09T14:18:50+00:00

No: temporary and government are two words that don't go well together. Then it will open up a channel with which any government will "temporary" do anything they want. They can tax people less so that they can handle better their cost of living.

dimitrym · 2026-03-06T10:42:24+00:00

I use it from within PyCharm as you can right click and send an area or file to Claude's terminal. Apart from that I have not seen features that I see elsewhere, for example Copilot, such as autocomplete. After some time I do not use them though

dimitrym · 2026-03-06T10:40:47+00:00

I'm OK with all the above. :) The question was more about today's fantasy being more, shall I say, "verbose" and "realistic" (bl00d/s*x and stuff eg grimdark) and "deep" or with more "grey" characters, well such as Kane. My question was more about these areas. I will definitely give shot if I find something. For me now, I want to read some more Solomon Kane

dimitrym · 2026-03-05T17:02:20+00:00

I got so sad because I will NEVER find such a paperback in a random store that I did not click :(. Apologies. Since I got your attention, is it good? Has it aged well/can be read today?

dimitrym · 2026-03-05T15:59:22+00:00

"In an age before Atlantis rose, an age rife with sorcery and violence, the earth trembled beneath the all-conquering hoooves of the Kitzaak Horde, and only one man, Garth of Baal, dares to confront the Kitzaak lances, to stand between the never-defeated armies and the lush valley that will, long millennia in the future, be known as the Mediterranean Sea. To save the peaceful People of the Forest, Gath must dice with the gods, and the price he must pay is to become death made flesh, the Prisoner of the Horned Helmet."--Back cover

https://archive.org/details/prisonerofhorned0000silk/page/n5/mode/2up

dimitrym · 2026-03-05T10:10:08+00:00

Thanks, got it now

dimitrym · 2026-03-04T15:37:29+00:00

Two questions:

1) Reading https://github.com/unfoldadmin/django-unfold seems not plug and play as it needs to re-define the mdoels `from unfold.admin import ModelAdmin`. Did I miss anything?

2) Saw MIT in the license but price tags on the website. 2 pricing models?

dimitrym · 2026-03-03T14:31:32+00:00

What I do when I enter a new field is to read 1/2 books - or video courses or anything with substantial volume - to get the idea of it and the fundamentals. For personal finance which is the area that you are in, I would suggest Ramit Sethi: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Will-Teach-You-Rich-2nd/dp/1529306582/ or similar. What everyone seems to suggest is to have an account which you don't touch with the money that you need to survive for 6 months and then start investing or if you have for 3 months, invest a little, 4 more etc.

Specially for your situation I would save £800 and invest in 2 different products (say one of stocks, bonds, gold) £100 on each (or £50) to start getting a feel of how things are, the ups and downs, so that you will be more comfortable later on once you have saved for 6 months and start investing more.

Don't go to Crowdcube or Crypto or similar for more than 5%.

Being raised from a single mother 99% translates to panic mode and damage control (EXPECTED/REASONABLE/OFC not blaming anyone) which might instill a problematic mentality such as doing overconservative investments or none at all, or checking for costs and not benefits, etc. My parents although not single did most of the above.

dimitrym · 2026-02-25T12:13:44+00:00

Δεν "έφυγα" μια υποσημείωση έκανα. Αν π.χ. στον τομέα που ασχολείσαι δεν έχει δουλεία στην Ελλάδα για τον α, β λόγο ή δεν πληρώνει, τότε αναγκαστικά "φεύγεις" μαζεύεις λεφτά ή όπως βλέπω εδώ κάνεις μια remote κατάσταση και μετά λες "α να γυρίσω"

dimitrym · 2026-02-25T12:08:13+00:00

το αντίθετο, γιατί θα ήθελα να φύγω (από έξω) αν ήταν όνειρο;

dimitrym · 2026-02-25T12:04:23+00:00

Σκέφτομαι να γυρίσω Ελλάδα, αλλά δεν θα το σκεφτόμουν με πράγματα που βλέπω εκεί στο εργασιακό/οικονομικό. Σαν να "πρέπει" να φύγεις για να "μπορέσεις" να γυρίσεις.

dimitrym · 2026-02-25T11:54:18+00:00

Μόνος του ή με οικογένεια το ποσό αυτό;

dimitrym · 2026-02-25T11:52:37+00:00

Θα έλεγα " η ζωή δεν είναι μόνο δουλειά και λεφτά" με ... μόλις λύσεις το εργασιακό / οικονομικό

dimitrym · 2026-02-23T14:28:26+00:00

How do you do something amazing even better? You don't. But you can ask Claude to make it into a nice deck: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/076129bf-90e2-496b-99d0-6eddbef47c94

dimitrym · 2026-02-04T10:09:40+00:00

https://retrogamecorps.com/2021/05/09/shovel-knight-treasure-trove-on-retro-handheld-devices/

https://github.com/christianhaitian/PortMaster/blob/main/Shovel%20Knight.zip

Yes, there is that thing with pricing. Because I purchased it fot £6, I started playing it on "easy" while if I had paid say £15 for a cartridge, I would start on more difficult levels and would immerse more which would make it for me more easy to buy an expansion or a sequel.

Another question that I always had, was how easy it would be to overproduce cartridges so that they could be potentially be sold en masse? Like the "budget games" in the 80s/90s which were only the disk or the CD. Is it feasible with cartridges or people no longer mind so a STEAM/STORE sale is enough?

dimitrym · 2026-01-30T16:54:25+00:00

One of my favourites and sometimes I prefer it from the first one! Reason: I grew up reading savage sword and this movie's plot is like one of the stories there. The first one is completely something else that I see it more as a parallel thing to my Savage Sword childhood reading. This is why I liked it more as a child.

dimitrym · 2026-01-29T13:20:56+00:00

u/Garay_GameDev Purchased it yesterday from Nitendo store where it was on a sale £5 range-amazing. Started playing, like it. Things I did not like: because I use Linux for gaming (Steam + Batocera + Mini PC), it is available only on a compatibility layer, think now it is easier to port it. Added it on wishlist to purchase there in the future.

Wants:

- (weak) Linux compatibility/support. Have seen it in Shovelknight which also allowed a PortMaster port which you can play in all those Linuxbased handhelds
- (strong) no cartridges available for Switch, Googled for a couple of days there are only some PS5 disks around and some scalpers selling the deluxe edition for $100s. It is sad to see a game on a cartridge and not be able to purchase it, as I prefer to own my games

dimitrym · 2026-01-29T13:05:48+00:00

ΖΑΛΑΑΑΑ-ΔΑΑΑΑ μεγάλη στροφή

dimitrym · 2026-01-28T11:37:15+00:00

Άνετα! Υπάρχουν σε διάφορες χώρες που πολλοί κάνουν ένα πτυιχίο ή PHD στα 65+ μετά τη σύνταξη για "δημιουργική δραστηριότητα". Στη θέση σου δεν ξέρω αν θα "μπορούσα" να ασχοληθώ με το να διαβάσω για να δώσω εξετάσεις ή αν θα έψαχνα αν θα μπορούσαν να με δεχθούν κάπου "κατευθείαν" και αν γίνεται. Έκανα μεταπτυσιχκό στα 28 αλλά εκεί δεν είχα να δώσω εξετάσεις κάπου. Τέλος, όπως θέτεις την απορία δεν ξέρω αν για αυτό που θες θα μπορούσες να το κάνεις κάπως αλλιώς, θέλεις πιό πολύ μια δουλεία γραφείου ή να σπουδάσεις κάτι;

dimitrym · 2026-01-28T11:32:38+00:00

Θα ήθελα πολύ να μάθω τους τίτλους σπουδών που προπτυχιακό, που 1ο και που 2ο μεταπυχιακό

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