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Would love the option of torrenting the file, download seems quite slow, and hopefully it would save you some bandwidth!

Location, location, location. Well, and skillset of course.

I would strongly recommend against it though. The pay is terrible. There was a strong push for a few years to get people into the trades, and there was a strong misrepresentation of what the opportunities are really like.

Keep in mind that government contracts are a race to the bottom. The contracts go to the lowest bidder and since materials, etc. are a given, employee pay has really suffered. Being a machinist is not the path to a middle class life anymore for most people.

See my comment below. I'm familiar with developments in welding, some of my welds are in equipment that are national security related.

Both actually. Employers are stingy with PPE and you're constantly surrounded by dust, fumes and potentially harmful chemicals. Keep in mind this wasn't some tiny shop that made fences, I was working on military prototypes and aerospace projects.

I switch to the industry during the Obama administration, but after 2016 people were feeling a little too comfortable with their misogeny and racism.

To final straw was my direct supervisor becoming more radicalized into the far right. Not a comfortable feeling when they guy you report too leaves a 9mm with hollow points on top of his toolbox every day. The guy hadn't read a book except for the bible in 20 years, got all his news from Facebook and Fox.

I was a full stack web dev and Linux sysadmin for about a decade. Switched to welding and machining - I wanted to make something tangible for a change. The work itself was awesome (legos for grownups) but the industry is fairly toxic IME.

Right now I'm working on getting back into IT (Network security).

I'm the sole IT tech for a small manufacturing facility - I was already part time and just got the request to reduce my hours even further for now. The local job market is already subpar here, so I'm definitely concerned about the months to come.

How far away are we from being able to replace CNC machining with 3d printing?

For an affordable yet great torch, try the Benzomatic TS8000, easily found at Home Depot, etc. for around $40.

I'm currently taking some classes at my community college.

Besides the insane prices, one things I've noticed is that students don't get their student aid paid out until weeks into the semester, so you either have the choice to buy books at incredibly high prices at the college bookstore (higher even brand new compared to Amazon), or you have to wait 6 weeks before the aid is available for students to shop elsewhere.

Sneaky business.

Sweet, looks like something fun to work with this weekend, thanks for sharing!

My very first programming experience was on an MSX. At least in my small circle, MSX (and the MSX-2) were at least as popular as Spectrum or the Commodore 64 in Europe. In the 90s (not sure what the current status is) the retro scene interest for MSX computers was quite active as well.

Joel, are you guys looking for full time only or are there any part time positions as well?

I've been using you guys exclusively for the last year or so. Great prices, great service, no spam, keep it up!

Not OP, but actually looking for something in the 20-25 hours a week range. Plenty of PHP experience, do you have some more details and a contact address? (my email is in my profile).

I guess it was too good to keep up. I always spent the 3.99 for anything over $100 or so for piece of mind (and shopping satisfaction admittedly). I'll probably do it a lot less often now.

I think it's mostly driven by the recession

That and there's still a "it's easy to find php developers" amongst business people IME. Not that I mind php, I've used it long enough to work around it's issues.

As a PHP developer , i'm betting on Python and NodeJS for the future, i dont believe PHP has any real future outside a bunch of popular CMSe

Same here, having done very large php projects in the past, nowadays I tend to go for python (or more recently node) unless the client requests it.

One thing I foresee being a good niche in the future is updating/fixing legacy php apps. There's just too many man hours into them. It will be the COBOL of the web centric future.

I can't help you with a defined origin, but check out the book "Focusing" by E. Gendlin for a good start on experiencing/understanding the concept.

Is part time with flexible hours a possibility at all?

Located in NM, so monthly visits wouldn't be that big of a deal, but currently enrolled in some community college classes until July. Fascinating position!

edit: Sorry about the multiple replies, got several "expired link" errors while posting :)

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Located in Albuquerque, seeking a remote position with flexible-ish hours for 20 to 25 hours a week.

- +5 years professional web dev experience (PHP, Python, Javascript). I excel at large sized backend projects, but happy to take care of the frontend as well. Past experience includes anything from Magento, Wordpress, Zend, Kohana, Silex to Flask, PyQT, etc. etc. to large custom “from scratch” applications, intranet apps, etc. Personal pride and interest in best practices security wise.

- +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server.

- Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish (euro expat with permanent residency in the US).

- Well read, well traveled, enjoy a multi-disciplinary approach to life. Former yoga and meditation instructor. Good sense for aesthetics (although not a designer, a good natural talent to help with developer to designer communications and UX/UI input). Currently I'm enrolled in a welding program full time (not a lot of theory outside of lab/practice/fabrication sessions).

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position, as well as something long term or at least 3-4 months, not the job hopper type.

Happy to chat over Skype, provide code samples and/or do a test run together.

Check out Ken Wilber as well.

SEEKING WORK

Located in Albuquerque, seeking a remote position with flexible hours (doing a welding certification for a year, looking to work full time or close to that but I can't do a typical 9-5). Available fulltime for December (on winter break), then 20 hours a week starting January.

- +5 years experience working as a PHP dev. I work in Javascript and Python as well. I excel at large sized backend projects, but happy to take care of the frontend as well.

- +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server. Lots of CentOS production level experience. I've saved the day more than once diagnosing and fixing app performance issues that were a combination of server and code layer problems :)

- Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish. Euro expat with permanent residency in the US.

- Not a drone, always happy to contribute ideas and to respectfully offer alternatives without being a buttmunch about it or losing sight of project leadership/track.

- Good communicator, I have a good knack for translating nerd speak into understandable English (or Spanish or Dutch). Not afraid of people either, you could actually put me in a room with customers or the marketing department without resulting in long awkward silences.

- Experience working in teams or solo, equally happy doing either one. I can be relied on to work without for months on end if needed without wasting too much time on supervision, but I'm never afraid to ask to feedback or info when needed.

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position. Looking for something long term, not the job hopper type.

Happy to provide code samples and/or do a test run together.

I started as a kid as well. One of the wonderful things about computers being self-contained learning environments is that there's such a wide range of possibilities for expressing your intellectual curiosities and ideas.

Now that I'm a bit older though, I am enjoying the physicality of working with my hands, producing something tangible and having something that can outlast me, instead of code that most likely will just last some years.

After I'm done with my welding training, I'd like to do at least some introductory machining classes. Perhaps even a furniture making course. I have to good fortune of living very close my community college, and as long as I can work part time as a developer (albeit at odd hours) I want to keep learning how to build things with my hands.

I'm currently learning how to weld as well (full time program). There's definitely something very satisfying in learning how to build things with your hands.

Jerseys start at around $150 (and that's buying from cheaper places in the UK), same for shorts. Pretty obvious at that point that they're fake.

Good to know. I actually ran into that with a flashlight the other day. Prime product, but a lot of the recent reviews complaining it was a chinese knockoff. Caveat emptor.

Some more details would be nice. Assos is one of the most expensive cycling brands out there, so it could very easily be a case of "obviously too good to be true".

I for one tend to buy Prime items only. No hassle and fast delivery.

Check out Linux Mint as well, I've been using it as my main distro for some months now. It's based on Ubuntu, but very clean and easy.

Located in the Southwest, seeking a remote position with flexible hours (doing a welding certification for a year, looking to work full time or close to that but I can't do a typical 9-5).

- +5 years experience working as a PHP dev. Spending a lot more time with Python and Go lately and would feel comfortable doing production level projects in Python soon. Fluent in Javascript (vanilla or jQuery) as well and up to date on HTML5 and happy to do frontend, although I excel at large sized backend projects.

- Experience with Zend, Yii, Symphony, Wordpress,... always eager to pick up new things and I'll make sure to fanatically learn whatever framework(s) needed.

- I write solid OOP code, follow MVC best practices.

- Production experience with Subversion and Mercurial (and adding Git to that would be a breeze).

- Very security conscious, at all levels of the stack. Looking to expand on that and become a coder/pentester hybrid over the next year.

- +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server. Lots of CentOS production level experience. I've saved the day more than once diagnosing and fixing app performance issues that were a combination of server and code layer problems :)

- Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish. Euro expat with permanent residency in the US.

- Not a drone, always happy to contribute ideas and to respectfully offer alternatives without being a buttmunch about it or losing sight of project leadership/track.

- Good communicator, I have a good knack for translating nerd speak into understandable English (or Spanish or Dutch). Not afraid of people either, you could actually put me in a room with customers or the marketing department without resulting in long awkward silences.

- Experience working in teams or solo, equally happy doing either one. I can be relied on to work without for months on end if needed without wasting too much time on supervision, but I'm never afraid to ask to feedback or info when needed.

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position. Looking for something long term if possible, not the job hopper type.

Happy to provide code samples and/or do a test run together.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Located in the Southwest, seeking a remote position with flexible hours (doing a welding certification for a year, looking to work full time or close to that but I can't do a typical 9-5).

- +5 years experience working as a PHP dev. Spending a lot more time with Python and Go lately and would feel comfortable doing production level projects in Python soon. Fluent in Javascript (vanilla or jQuery) as well and up to date on HTML5 and happy to do frontend, although I excel at large sized backend projects. - Experience with Zend, Yii, Symphony, Wordpress,... always eager to pick up new things and I'll make sure to fanatically learn whatever framework(s) needed. - I write solid OOP code, follow MVC best practices. - Production experience with Subversion and Mercurial (and adding Git to that would be a breeze). - Very security conscious, at all levels of the stack. Looking to expand on that and become a coder/pentester hybrid over the next year. - +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server. Lots of CentOS production level experience. I've saved the day more than once diagnosing and fixing app performance issues that were a combination of server and code layer problems :) - Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish. Euro expat with permanent residency in the US. - Not a drone, always happy to contribute ideas and to respectfully offer alternatives without being a buttmunch about it or losing sight of project leadership/track. - Good communicator, I have a good knack for translating nerd speak into understandable English (or Spanish or Dutch). Not afraid of people either, you could actually put me in a room with customers or the marketing department without resulting in long awkward silences. - Experience working in teams or solo, equally happy doing either one. I can be relied on to work without for months on end if needed without wasting too much time on supervision, but I'm never afraid to ask to feedback or info when needed.

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position. Looking for something long term if possible, not the job hopper type.

Happy to provide code samples and/or do a test run together.