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by yummyfajitas 6220 days ago
Yes. Her problem is not simply bad luck. Her problem is that for a while she was unwilling to entertain jobs she didn't like, and even now she only does it for 4 hours/week.

That's what won't happen to most of us. Rather than filling out the form for food assistance, we will be filling out recruiters info sheets describing "a time I worked as part of a team" and rating our C++ skills on a scale of 1-10.
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olefoo 6220 days ago
You are assuming that there are even menial jobs available that would allow her to support herself, given the sheer number of other people who are looking for those same jobs that may not be true.

And as for the lifestyle choice part of your criticism, this site is very much a glass house in which to throw that particular brick; if you're working on a startup and doing your work in a popular scripting language, that's a lifestyle choice; a more financially rational decision would be to go and fix someone's J2EE monstrosity of an accounting/ERP project too big to fail.

And if some clever person comes up with a machine that can crank out code to spec, better and with fewer errors than human programmers... Some of us will adapt to the new situation and carry on as Dev/PM dealing with AI instead of coworkers, but some percentage will be left high and dry.

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yummyfajitas 6220 days ago
I'm not assuming there are menial jobs available to her. Based on her statement about non-yoga instructor jobs and the fact that the article doesn't mention a search for them, I'm assuming she is only willing to work as a yoga teacher.

She is being criticized because she refuses to enter a different market even though her current market has collapsed.

I'm also not criticizing the lifestyle choices. I'm criticizing the unwillingness to reevaluate those choices when circumstances change.

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cosinepi 6220 days ago
"That's what won't happen to most of us. Rather than filling out the form for food assistance, we will be filling out recruiters info sheets describing "a time I worked as part of a team" and rating our C++ skills on a scale of 1-10."

Did you mean "Rather than" or "Before"?

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