Sixty

Speaking of…I’ll need a nice Canadian owned relaxation session after I change my fucking email address today across…236 accounts! Jesus.

I really fucked up not buying a custom domain name a long long time ago. I’m getting rid of my classic @live.ca microsoft addresses and gmail now.

I’ll shed no tears, even as a NAS owner, once we get equivalent capacity SSD without ruining the bank :P

I tried to strike out on my own, failed. College halfheartedly with a couple different courses (Programming, and Hearing Aid Practitioner) just kinda throwing shit at the wall. Both I’d last a year or two, then decide nah and drop out. Welding I did okay at, and it’s a useful skill at home, but wasn’t for me as a career. Same with vehicle mechanic. Since Canadian, that didn’t actually put me in much debt despite being a massive waste of time. Plus I worked part time through education, and split rent on a house five ways with my friends turned roommates.

Miserable warehouse work for a couple years after all this. Moved up to manager in a year because every other manager was on drugs or alcoholic and unreliable. The other workers were mostly ex-cons or fried out temp workers. Used that exp to apply to a manufacturing plant for warehouse packaging. Adjacent career, but pays way better. Especially with a union.

That position got taken, but they offered me an Operator position instead which is great work if you’re a loner and just wanna run extruders mostly unsupervised and with only one co-worker in your crew. Which I do. Some days busy and you don’t sit. Some days are hell. Especially when equipment isn’t quite broken, but is on the way out, or you have a bitchy development product with a bunch of unknowns with the techs watching and asking about your every move. Most days you have almost nothing to do but hourly readings and you sometimes never see any manager or tech for months at a time. It’s a clean manufacturing process, so not much housekeeping outside of a fuckup. Thankfully, I’m allowed personal electronics in our control room. I like read, draw, and write at work. Sometimes Steam Deck. Used to scroll online way too much at work, so I found healthier habits to stave off night shift cabin fever and not break my mind reading American media.

As of this year, the career pays out ~110,000 a year. Union plant. Thank fuck, because the Americans own it.

Basically I just stumbled around and got lucky.

Saw him last year, my sister dragged me to one of his climate change talks. Fairly worthless to anyone except children who don’t know what’s going on yet pretty much. The Q&A section was funny because it was entirely people asking him what they should do about it, and Bill just kinda shrugging with non-answers and irrational optimism. Good talk.