Learning a language in itself is not a bad thing, as long as you have a lot of support and mix with the locals, but mixing it with integration politics, the R word will start to rear its head: by endlessly raising the bar to a fantasy “native” level of the target local language in business hiring, that a coded word meaning they don’t want expats. While the government is simultaneously pulling public funding away from language schools. Oh no, you will never be one of them. Realistically, you will also need some years to be at a native level; the pressure is real.

Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.

What the fuck…

I used to just use a cloud service like you years ago, but try sync them through GitHub, there is a 1gb limit on private repositories though, but it should be fine as long as you don’t put videos and sounds in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4-BPcveBI

There are tons of alternative ways for you to sync notes. I have used it for so long without spending a dime.

Oops, I didn’t even notice.

Man, you left out Obsidian, it is a godsend for studying and notetaking.

Get an ultra-wide monitor, split it into four panes, one pane to import the pdf you want to read, another for note-taking, and spare another one for the AI for Markdown formatting and explaining texts (optional). I can’t think of a more efficient workflow for studying digitally.

“Working with engineers as my profession”

“Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line.”

Engineering IS a multidisciplinary career; you are not going to do finite element analysis on a stack of paper, I don’t even think governments will accept a full-blown hand sketch drawing. Everyone will at least want a cad file, everyone will want to use software with interoperability, paper doesn’t do that…

I know that guy from the Hannibal Lecter Red Dragon and Rush Hour, he’s kind of mid as a director, somehow I am not really surprised by these Hollywood types…

Yeah, but I mean if you are fully qualified for the job and the company is being run efficiently, and there are no projects that have nasty extra demands/complaints that deviate from the norm and the skillset of the company. Why need tertiary skills aside from your boss having a sense of humor “yOU sHoUlD leARN thIS, i pAy yoU tO lEaRN”?

Unless you caught me learning something so remote from my core work, so much work for little improvement margin, then you’ve got every right to question me.

Besides, what I have been mentioning are NOT tertiary skills; they are becoming primary skills, but no one actually wants to admit that. It is a constant reminder to your superior that they can’t elevate you even if they want to.

It sounds to me you are talking about a cultural problem called conformity and KPI tunnel vision. Sometimes it becomes so stiff that even working efficiently requires permission because someone is adverse to change.

I have:

-Brave as my browser

-Ublock Origin

-DNS-wide AdBlock

-Youtube sponser block

I barely see any ads now, except those that pop up as an overlay and nag you, and some of them can be block manaully.

I am not sure about your projects. Other than InDesign, all I mentioned are essentially project /client requirements; daily operation in the site office is going to be crippled in one way or another if you don’t know how to use those software. Sure, you don’t have to know two drawing software programs; they are being framed as “extra” on job ads, but it is really handy when there is an opportunity to make an impression on the client with 3D.

As an Engineer, I need to know:

-At least two professional-grade drawing softwares

-Word processing skills

-Presentation skills in documentation, such as InDesign

-Excel

-Quick comprehension in a mountain of contractual documents

-Digital Document Management

-Two languages minimum

I have already skipped a bunch of soft skills, we are not paid enough, while watching my Boomer PM taking 3 days to write three questions to client consultants.

It would be a Gish gallop if they do some brigading; that’s how they usually scare off OP. Since he did not know he was making a controversial statement, and did not pre-emptively stop the Gish Gallop.

ad nauseum

Thanks, this is an exact description.

Unfortunately, it is a split issue, so both sides get some support.

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