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Are there any food service establishments out there that solely focus on delivery? No walk-ins, no dining in but only delivery? Their staff would pretty much consist of cooks and delivery employees and the facility would be big enough for a kitchen and prep area.

I would think a setup like that with good food would do well in this new reality we are in.

I imagine it would challenging for a restaurant to focus on a good dine-in experience alongside a good delivery service, especially considering the low margins.

"I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of schools just switched to having their teachers attempt to do their normal teaching via Zoom"

This is exactly what is happening in our school district and it is a big failure. That and teachers emailing their lesson plans for parents to print or parents can go to the school and pick up printed packets. We then have the joy of taking photos of the completed work and emailing those back to the teachers.

It is extremely inefficient and I have already informed our school that we will not be doing that if we are stuck in this scenario come fall. We will be using Khan for math and other online learning platforms for LA.

I don't disagree with you. She worries about him and his safety.

One of my friends sons is making $300 to $500 per day working Instacart right now. Partly because where we live the demand is high and there are not enough Instacarters to meet that demand. The delivery time is currently at least 3 days out. He is young and healthy so he doesn't really have that fear.

We submitted our app through Chase the morning it opened. Days went by before we heard anything and that was an automated email that basically said they received our app. This morning I got an email stating the program is out of money, but they will keep our app on file for if/when more funds are allocated to it.

This is awesome! I love hearing that others are doing this. I do something similar but I run after school clubs. I work mostly with 5th through 8th graders and run clubs 5 days per week in 5 different local schools.

It is a lot of work but so rewarding and I feel it has made me a better developer. I myself have learned so much from doing it. I have met so many amazing kids & parents too and it's made me a much bigger part of my community.

I don't think the title of this article is good or portrays what it is really getting at. It is not really about having a cushy job that you like going to, but instead more about how jobs available today don't pay well.

The pay does not match up to inflation, healthcare costs and cost of living. Put the cost of higher education into that mix and it just adds to the problem. So many are stuck paying off high students loans to only be able to get mediocre paying jobs.

"only 40 percent of Americans currently have 'good' jobs."

Meaning head of household jobs. That is a problem!

Trying to force introverts into pro-longed extroversion is exhausting. It is not how we are built. I think oftentimes people view introverts as anti-social, which is not always the case. We are just differently social.

Instead of trying to force introverts to be more like extroverts, encourage them to share their skills/talents in a positive way. This is where you will see us shine and you might even forget that we are introverts.

Throwing us into a party with 100 strangers and expecting us to thrive, is not gonna do it. Asking us to teach a large group of strangers something valuable or lead a project that we know a lot about will energize us like nothing else. This is how we connect with people and how we make our mark in society.

A lot of introverts are quiet leaders and have a way of making a huge impact in ways that extroverts just don't understand. Don't get me wrong, I love the extroverts in my life, but I don't want to be like them :)

LinkedIn is a place where I can have my professional profile. That is pretty much it for me. I have tried to engage otherwise on there but it is filled with spam, recruiters and other egocentric entrepreneurs and marketing people who are trying way too hard.

I don't buy anything that I would put into my body from Amazon. This also includes creams, make-up, etc. Way too many counterfeits to trust them and trying to figure out which are legit is a huge task in itself.

Why is this concerning? The public school system has a lot of issues. My son went to public school until 6th grade and I about pulled my hair out with issue after issue. We put him in a hybrid charter school program (3 days homeschool, 2 days in class) for 7th and 8th and started my youngest in this same program from kindergarten. Both are well ahead academically of their peers and grade level.

There are a ton of homeschool groups in our area too that organize activities where all of the kids get together. It is very active giving kids plenty of opportunity to socialize.

We don't homeschool for religious reasons. We do it because we want our kids to get the best possible education without all of the indoctrination and other crap that is pushed through the public education system. This is pretty much the reason most of the other homeschoolers that I engage with do it too. I think homeschooling has a bad rap because of the media and a few bad apples but at least from my experience, that portrayal is not the norm.

This ^

I have a couple of real estate apps on the market one of which has been out there for over 10 years. They did really well before the bust and are still profitable but it is a really tough market. I have since moved to other sectors and am happy I did.

The problem that I have seen is most companies don't want to pay a skilled full-stack developer what they are worth. They think $100k is the going rate and unfortunately a lot of junior developers are calling themselves full-stack and jumping at that salary. Then the lines get blurred and the true value of a full-stack developer gets diminished.

All of these points are spot on! I learned some of this the hard way and wish someone told me these things years ago when I went from sole proprietorship to LLC. Spending money on a good Bookkeeper, CPA and accounting software is well worth the money.

It is published on the Arduino website. I will send your feedback to them.

I have been considering forming a team but am a little worried about the time commitment for the students and having enough volunteers. Out of curiosity, what made you decide on First Vs. VEX?

Thanks for sharing this. That would have cut down on costs for sure.

I was able to get the PS2 controllers at a discount at $8 per controller. If you can link me to better and more affordable ones, I would love to see them. Keep in mind this was self-funded, so we had to make a lot of compromises to keep things somewhat affordable.

I am sorry to hear this. I really do not understand why schools and parents don't support this kind of stuff. It teaches them so much more than just robotics. 20 kids seems like a lot. I try to keep my clubs small in order to keep it manageable.

This is awesome! You guys are using far superior materials :)

Selling custom signs to businesses. I help them design the sign but also have a sign creator on the site that businesses can use for more basic signs. I send the design files off to a supplier who then makes and ships the signs. It averages $20k in sales per month. It is not hands off (fair amount of customer support & design work) but the net profit makes it worth it.

"Amazon is requiring a $35,000 ad budget to run the spots at 5 cents per view to run the ads for 60 days"

This pretty much excludes small to mid-sized sellers. They are obviously targeting bigger companies with bigger budgets.

With that in mind, I don't see it as a competitor to Google/YouTube or Facebook YET. If they open it up to lower budget campaigns, I can absolutely see it making a dent in YouTube ads.

That was my thought too.

"Sure, the old system was ugly, but it had everything they needed, right at their fingertips!"

"They didn’t have time to click or scroll to find information while the clock was literally ticking."

Sounds more like they added way more friction in the new design. Users now had to click multiple areas to fill out everything they needed which slows down work flow.

I would teach kids in a more non-traditional, activity based way. No tests, just real world activities and projects that they can apply to real life. Unfortunately there are too many politics in the education system and teachers can't fully teach in the ways I would want to. It's all about the numbers and what looks good on paper.

I do some of this on a small scale now but I run my own project based workshops or after school clubs in order to bypass the system.

Examples of clubs I have ran:

- Learn how to build an automatic solar powered plant watering system

- Learn how to build your own retro arcade system

- Learn how to build a battle bot and battle it against other classmates bots

- Learn how to program [name of game]. I focus on 1 game and try to cover most of the basics. After they get the core game programmed, they are able to customize it or program another game with the concepts they learned.

For most of these things kids utilize critical thinking, math, programming, electronics and engineering.

Wow! Good to know. Thanks for sharing this!

I feel the same way. I am so excited about this. I hope it is not too late though. Seems as though a lot of the popular around Minecraft has faded a bit.

We have a 1500 sq ft house with 2 kids. We have 3 bedrooms so each kid has their own room. We also have 2 added sunrooms off each end of the house, one of which I use for my office. Part of our garage has also been converted into a gaming area for my son and his friends. We don't want anything bigger. It really is the perfect size for our family. We all have our own space when we need it but still close enough so we aren't totally alienated from each other.

Melatonin has also shown to help with certain cancers especially breast. Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412427/

This is a good point. So far I have had no maintenance other than oil changes/tune-ups. Once things start breaking down to where I have to spend $$ to keep it going, that is when I will buy a newer used car. I also mainly use it for local around town driving. If I go on a long trip, I rent a car.

This is a perfect example. I have had the same car for 6 years which I bought used and am hoping to squeeze another 5 out of it. Cars are one of those things I hate spending money on.