What kinds of part time jobs did you do when you first entered the job market?
On my own after cutting financial ties with my parents, and looking to try different kinds of work while I wait out a bad tech market. Besides uber, what are some interesting ways to work part...
On my own after cutting financial ties with my parents, and looking to try different kinds of work while I wait out a bad tech market. Besides uber, what are some interesting ways to work part time in SF? I’ve been thinking about enlisting in the army, but I think there’s probably better ideas.
About me: Recent CS grad, currently doing part-time pastry.
Edit: Thanks so much for the great ideas! I think I’ll try looking into FOH, a couple gyms, and try a temp agency as a backup.
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Individually, I DID find that my ability to memorize new information was healthier when learning a language - of course, any knowledge space works, but language is unique in having a lot of resources (sometimes, state-sponsored) for the learning part. Modern platforms have been incorporating user-friendly SRS, mass-educating those of us without great study skills in what memorization and review is actually supposed to look like.
Globally, economic mobility might improve if the entire world consolidated into language blocs, yes, but as a country, protecting a unique language can also act as a tariff against brain drain (talent more easily immigrating to the West, for example), promoting political identity, and a way of censoring foreign ideas, among other things.
Whether this is good or not, depends on how much globalization (I/O of ideas and goods) is "optimal" for your country. India and Japan are two opposite cases for example: India exposed itself to brain drain by making English the professional language, but also supported the influx of ideas and deeper trade relationships with the West. No idea what the cost/benefit analysis is here.
Japan on the other hand, seems to have invested in soft power (anime, video games, food) and language platforms, to encourage brand identity (boosted value of Japanese products in global stage) and immigration as a treatment for its low birth-rate economy.
The idea of a mono-language global citizen can't really exist, as long as there are countries that want to take care of their own first, whom believe the calculus of assimilation doesn't make sense.