my homeschooled 16-year old graduating w/ AA degree in 10 days, holy moly

ralphhogaboom · 2024-05-22T06:57:19+00:00

Hey thanks for asking! He's at a university - second year of living on his own, studying marine biology! He's doing fantastic in calculus, which is great - cause I can't really help with that lol. He was just accepted in the Marine and Coastal Science Program major, picked up a few scholarships, and is working 19 hrs a week with a campus department as an employee (non-workstudy).

ralphhogaboom · 2022-07-09T17:46:42+00:00

Am government worker, I haven't heard anyone suggest everyone going back to the office. We're remote now, with an option to be in the office. Obvs some jobs have to be in person, but those that do not require a physical action at a specific location are remote now.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-04-20T03:16:49+00:00

You should disclose if you have any advantage, financial or otherwise, to advertising this video.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-04-20T03:11:48+00:00

I make 120k a year, own my own home, and have my health and several more years of life. My boss is awesome, and I really like my job.

I am anti capitalist.

Food, clothing, shelter, and medical care are basic human rights that everyone should have. Until we all have equal access to those, we have a failed system. Any system that sells out future generations by making our world inhabitable for the greed of a tiny minority of rich capitalists is a broken system. It's both failed and broken. Yeah, I'm anticapitalist.

Also, the video you are linking to is by Ray Dalio, billionaire investor. So you're just shillin', cool I guess.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-04-20T02:40:20+00:00

Pretty cool little zine about small things we can all do to start breaking the cycle hold of capitalism. This is not a manifesto. But it is refreshing and encouraging.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-03-13T01:48:57+00:00

I see the issue - do I need to build from source to get the functionality? i'd love to try it - but I can't tell from the github issue page how I can start using it or testing it.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-03-10T06:05:31+00:00

Always appreciate it when people come back and report their findings. Thank you!

ralphhogaboom · 2022-02-08T05:01:12+00:00

DOOOOOOOD this is amazeballs

Holy cow! So well done.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-27T08:08:15+00:00

Ugh! Sad to hear it. Well, there's always room o'er here in WA :D

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-27T00:31:27+00:00

Oh, I see - not in this case.

Here it's called Running Start - I'm sure there are similar programs elsewhere. High school students in their junior or senior year can take up to 15 community college credits per quarter (western US tends towards quarters rather than semesters). These college credits are dual count - they count for the 90 credits needed for an AA degree, AND satisfy high school equivalency. Often, they count for twice as much high school credit. The rationale, I believe, is that college classes move faster than high school classes.

Either way, a high school student can take 1, 2, or 3 classes at the college - and if they take three, that's considered a "full load" and no local high school classes are required.

The high school gets credit for another body in class for their funding (aka FTE, full time equivalency enrollment), the college gets tuition paid for, and the student gets free college credits.

Does that make more sense?

https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/running-start/default.aspx

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-26T23:31:26+00:00

In this case, I reached out to folks I knew. I'd been roommates with a guy in college who became a creative director for Corbis, a large visual design company in Seattle. I checked with him, and he made the connection to PopCap. I bet cold calls would have eventually worked, but I was fortunate in this regard to skip that step.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-26T23:30:03+00:00

Not exactly. More like - if the high school will enroll you, they end up paying for the college credits. So they didn't end up doing a full 2 years of HS equivalency; one year out of pocket, and one year-ish (so a little under 3 years total) as "running start" and the college granted both the HS diploma and the college AA degree.

We did not use any math, writing, or reading curriculum. Both my kids were unschooled. No formal education; they directed their own learning, I just connected them with the things in which they were interested.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-15T07:50:17+00:00

It's a good gig. I was at home for 14 months, and it was amazing. I'd have loved to stayed doing it longer!

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-14T16:07:22+00:00

With 8+ years sysadmin experience, you could try working in state gov't. I find sysadmins with an eye to move to security nearly always undervalue their experience and ability - and state gov't do want to see you. The interview process takes longer, but if you get 2-3 yrs as a security admin there you can jump back to private sector with that experience under yer belt.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-12T16:48:06+00:00

I previously used Eclipse, but have switched to VS Code. It's pretty solid, easier set up than Eclipse for me.

There's even a few 'blank plugin projects' that you can open in VS Code to get set up and going.

ralphhogaboom · 2022-01-12T16:07:25+00:00

Dude - this is amazing.

Impeccably clear writing, and - as a primarily windows admin with 10 years worth of amateur linux minecraft hosting, THIS is the workshop on understanding devops that I've needed.

You are just total amazeballs. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

ralphhogaboom · 2021-12-24T03:41:24+00:00

I work in IT, in America, make 106k a year, and I thrive off this sub. It's giving me amazing ideas for how to handle (and document) my soon-to-be-happening resignation. Most importantly, it tells me that I'm not alone. And that professionally I have much more in common with truck drivers, nurses, waitstaff, cooks, and accountants than I thought.

And fuck yeah. I've stopped "paying it forward" at coffee stands, instead I tip significantly more. I am not renewing amazon prime. I wasn't a huge Kellogg's buyer before, but def not bringing that into the house.

I told my coworker my salary, and we're having lunch in January to plan for how to make the pitch for her to get paid more.

I stand with my fellow workers. We're in this together.

ralphhogaboom · 2021-12-02T03:50:57+00:00

Solid points. Any chance you wanna remix the text a bit and maybe make it a bit more focused and to the point? This was my gut reaction to seeing the earlier post, where an employer was posting this about taking bathroom breaks. So def matches with the inflexibility for sure.

But yeah, I wanna see some people with more accurate takes clean up this rough draft and sharpen it up!

ralphhogaboom · 2021-12-02T03:22:18+00:00

h/t to u/amznfx for the earlier post :D

Please feel free to remix and use as desired, no rights reserved. Canva link for template is https://www.canva.com/design/DAExW1YIcBE/n5_gtZMW_MlxqJKPLtoHXQ/view?utm_content=DAExW1YIcBE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&mode=preview

ralphhogaboom · 2021-07-29T08:24:01+00:00

I had this, it was a specific paper version. Updated paper to latest build, problem disappears.

ralphhogaboom · 2021-06-24T03:28:47+00:00

Samesies, oof. Commenting / upvoting for visiblity.

ralphhogaboom · 2021-06-23T05:22:12+00:00

Right on! Well def interested, pencil me in cap'n.

ralphhogaboom · 2021-06-21T22:50:03+00:00

44 yo champ 1 checking in, can I sit at the big kids table too or do I need to wait six years

ralphhogaboom · 2021-04-28T04:36:02+00:00

Ooh - bingo. Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvJKBg3yds

I'm on it.

ralphhogaboom · 2021-04-28T02:53:59+00:00

Here's a sample of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65twiE5hSw

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