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Yeah I wanted to take action before I get used to it. But it seems chances are slim of getting it fixed. I think I never read about anyone who came out of it.

Anyways, I've been to the oto doctor and after a few visits, tests and ct scan he believes it might be due to my jaw and bruxism I have at night. Not ear related. Next stop for me will be to visit a maxilo facial doctor.

I'm on the exact same boat. Same age and got it randomly this Summer. Are you able to modulate the pitch by moving your jaw sideways or wide opening it? Would be great to bounce off some ideas. I'll drop you an email if that's OK.

Excellent, thanks for flagging!

It was a massive difference when I started in Cape Verde. Specially the way of working, level of service and insurance options available (mostly non-existent). It's very satisfying to look back and the progress made over the years where, in a way, I helped to improve the customer service provided by the small local companies, closer to what you would see in the western world.

What's also funny is that the "1st dollar" coming in in any business is such a rush, such an excitement. That still holds true in my case! Even though the business is the same across the 3 websites, it's such an excitement to see the Madeira one growing (where I started more recently), compared to the Azores where I've been at for some years now.

The business is a car rental platform for niche destinations https://bonjourpaco.com/

At the time I was working with maybe 30 providers and it would be doable to rebuild the server and reconfigure all providers, cars, insurance, etc. Content would probably take longer, but also doable. But at the time I took it as a sign to shift to something else.

Glad I didn't and that the project came back from the ashes, literally.

My business is transactional where email is still king for all after sales support. I guess that makes it way easier to handle than a SaaS one.

The biggest impact for the business was not making any sale during this period and my SEO rankings going down. Actually the site disappeared from search. I guess the biggest impact for me - personally - was psychological. All production data was gone and I was seeing it as a sign I should just let it go. I had all the source code, so in theory I could do it, but not sure I would have the motivation to.

Then in the end my thingy was hosted in a section that was salvaged from the fire. I saw it as a sign that actually I SHOULD keep going, lol. I don't remember exactly how long it was off but yeah, 4-6 months. Everything was restored though.

The only thing I did was to implement automatic backups and to a different datacenter. I remember from the incident, one issue for many was their servers were hosted in Strasbourg with backups also hosted there.

I've touched on this in my last comment, but my wife is by far my biggest motivator. It's tough life for us working solo, with our minds playing tricks on us all the time. It always sounds so much easier to go and work for someone else again or to just start a new side project from scratch. Not sure if there's any Alex Hormozi fan here, but one thing he's always repeating is to not give up, not start anything new over and over and just keep pushing that one project.

Yeah, this resonates with me. My side project for 6 years was generating very, very little. Enough for a few pints a month.

Fun fact: The project survived a total destruction of the datacenter where it was hosted (remember the ovh incident?) which took it offline for maybe 4 months (no backups at the time). Luckily the server it was on didn't get melted.

Also at some point I started questioning why was I still working on it for so little. My wife convinced me to keep going and to be honest I still enjoyed working on it.

Then on year 7 things started to change, and on year 8 I was able to quit my daily job! I'm on year 10 now. It's not a 7 figure business, but I enjoy every single day. Also the flexibility it gives me is excellent.

This is the best summary.

Yes, same here.

Fair. But when you land the face to face interview with the hiring manager and peers, I think it's still good to have a nicely designed CV. And with nicely designed I don't mean lots of graphics and colors, but something that was thought out to read well.

Very smart the best to worst ranking. Well done!

Yeah, I was having the same issue. I couldn't tell why the weapon was not charged up. But sometimes on the second click it would work.

But well done!

Did you become a trader?

Cool idea. I've actually just taken a pic to my plate, threw it at gpt4 and asked it to generate a story. It worked nicely.

Could very well be! But also let's not forget this type of task is outsourced to external companies with employees spread around the world. To understand OP's comment was a joke would require some sort of internet culture which we just can't be sure every employee on these companies has.

I absolutely loved this comment. I feel total empathy not specifically with the topic, but for how you feel. I moved back to my home country (not DE) after 10years abroad and oh man, those thoughts are constantly with me. I'm doing an effort to readapt and hope it works well.

Genuine question here. Who took him to court? Did I understand well it was a public institution/Irs? There seems to be no mention of netflix (company) being involved in the trial on the accusation side.

I got "minable" on my first try and found it impressive and surprised that it wasn't a word. After 3 other reloads nothing else came up.

No skin. My internet was too slow and paid per minute to browse for skins :(

I got stuck on the 6 million dollar action figure part and ignored all the rest afterwards. What's the story?

Do you have a picture of that? Curious to see how it looks like.

Yep and it definitely qualifies as essential travel.

Excellent insight. Thanks!

Yeah and actually some companies allow you to have unpaid time off (like 1 year) after you've been with them for x amount years. Companies know people need a break.

I think you don't mean how much time I take between jobs, but the fact that I quit every so often? I always ask the same question. How much is too much? However, that's one of the benefits of working in tech. It became acceptable to change jobs every so often. And it became acceptable to quit to focus on yourself... If you sell it that way.

There's also this time I had a chat with my manager and peers about whether or not to hire this guy. We wanted to hire him, but we had a feeling he wouldn't stay long with us. He was very entrepreneurial. The conclusion straight away was "it's fine, if he stays with us just 1 year, we already benefit from it". I'm not saying I'm this guy, but it sounds acceptable nowadays.

We might be twins.

Totally. One thing I don't miss is hating my Sunday evening just because next day I'm back at it. I never hated work, but some Sundays were terrible.

Actually that might make sense. I started "wood working" when I was 10yo and later helping with construction stuff. This was not child labor, but I would spend a lot of time at my grandparents. Thanks to crappy tv channels and no internet, kids would be super creative to find stuff to do.

My DIY face then went into sleep mode for many years and came back when I started taking breaks from work.

What you said might be spot on.

I'm far from retiring, but I always take a break between jobs. It used to be only 2 months, then last time it was 6 months. I'm very happy to be in tech because it allows us for that. I don't decide beforehand how much time I'm taking, instead I just reassess myself "am I still productive? Am I still enjoying doing nothing?" When the answer is no that's when I get back to work.

I love DIY so I've used that time to refurbish two apartments and catch up on gold rush. This time it's been 8 months and I'm just working on a side project.

By now I'm not enjoying that much anymore. It's been too long and I start to miss making part of the bunch. I'm also not fully using my time anymore, partially because in the end my wife is still working as well as my friends. I believe there's a limit to happiness when you do things on your own and don't share. At least I'm realizing that. I guess it's time to go back!

Also I wonder if I'll still be able to do this when I'm in my 40s or 50s. My parents always taught me it gets tougher to find a job as you get older. Obviously someone that's good will always find, but I wonder in general how aging will apply to tech.

Edit: As a follow up thought and this is what I've realized, the weekends are a pretty good picture of how we'd behave at retirement. If we are lazy on weekends, we'll be lazy afterwards. If we keep ourselves busy in the weekends with non work stuff, we'll probably be the same after retirement.

The comment is good, but your username is excellent.