Thanks! Here’s a website I started making but haven’t updated since I started the new job.
outofcuriosity.co

The day before the first day of work from home I got fired from my engineering job at an oil company. Soon after I smoked weed occasionally for the first time in years after having received random drug tests. Unemployment extensions were nice too!

I bought a big laser cutter and started making art. Spent more time helping out at the local artist collective sprucing things up.

Eventually I got hooked up with a cool LED art installation company helping them install their projects as a freelancer. Now I’m full time with them!

It’s lower pay than the oil company but it is so much more rewarding, interesting, cooler people, better work/life balance. Overall the pandemic was fun times for me personally.

TIL US citizens have no constitutional rights when being held by border control on US soil. That was a real WTF for me.

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The world isn’t ready for Gen Alpha.

The difference is that some users have been using sync for a decade and using Lemmy for only a month. So it’s a lot easier to mentally justify supporting a developer who you’ve been benefiting from for so long.

I have also donated to my local instance, I really hope to see it all grow together.