Id rather not hijack this thread and make it about the bible so this reply is only for the purposes of clarifying my original comment, and will be my final reply. There are many denominations of christianity, my interpritation of the bible shows heaven and eternal life as a reward for those who follow jesus. The bible says in black and white that those who live in sin do not inherit the kingdom of heaven. If you point a gun at me and tell me to sin, i wont. If you shoot me, i go to heaven. A HN comment section is not the place to form your opinions about the bible. I recomend reading the bible and bringing your questions to a priest.
That is a good question, I live way below my means - One day i would like to have a wife and kids and as long as we are all fed our daily bread then thats all i ask for. The data analytics part was all volenteered and unpaid. If i stopped getting paid tomorrow, i would still volenteer to do it, i dont know where that puts me. Jesus healed people, hospitals heal people, i dont know of any hospitals that will train you how to heal over a long period of time without also wanting you on thier payroll
Software engineer for 12 years then got depressed about the job. Got into firefighting because I want to go to heaven and figured that with the 1 day on 2 days off schedule I can continue software on the side anyway.
Turns out just because you are a good software engineer, it doesnt mean you will be a good firefighter, and I need to dedicate a huge amount of time learning the job because software is a creativity focued job and Fire/EMS is a memory based one, and i have a bad memory.
The sleep is terrible, im an introvert and have a hard time getting along with others at the firehouse, but will say without a doubt it was absolute best decision ive ever made in my life. You will never see the facial expressions behind a computer you see in this job.
Im doing creative data analytics for fire depts to see how to save more lives, and thinking about making the swap to law enforcement just because i think my past as a software engineer can save more lives there. One example of my analytics is posting cops in areas where statistically it isnt likely for fire/EMS to show up in time, if the cop gets on sceane sooner, they can begin patient care sooner, and unltimaly increase rosc rare. You gotta be the change you want to see in the world you know?
Do this at you own risk, ive done this with lidar data (which didnt need to be as persice as binary, which is what im seeing in this post) which worked fine. 3 years later i revisited the project and it was broken because youtube compressed the files in such a way where it made the lidar just innaccurate enough to be unusable. I cant imagine storing data in binary where just one bit wrong screws everything
When i was 5 i was given a gameboy color, i got additcted to it, so my parents banned everything "computer related" until i was 14, depending on their mood this also included tv. When i was a kid i hated it because my parents were never able to explain why they did. But looking back, i think it was the right move. Many people i grew up with became dopamine slaves and cant stop themsevles from indulging in socialmedia/ videogames/ hedonism every day. From 14-18 i played videogames everyday as much as i could each day. I dont consider it a relapse because im antisocial and will naturally gravitate to an activity i can do alone. If i never had the childhood without tech, i could see an adulthood without anything else. If you have never lived your life without freedom, you really dont know it's value. If you always had it, you either over value it or under value it. I became a software engineer, but generally have grown a dislike for 70% of all tech on the market. I will probably end up raising my kids as close to amish as possible. Will the pendulum swing the other way and they rebell? Maybe. But a rebellion into a worse solution is temporary and I'll always support my kids in a low tech household when tech burns them.