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+1 for decaf. I went totally caffeine free in college, and there's a huge variety of caffeine free / decaf options out there that taste similar enough to the real stuff. Coffee, tea, soda... I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
OP, brace for headaches while your body goes through caffeine withdrawal. It sucks nearly as much as quitting nicotine. But the end result is 8 hours of restful sleep every night with little difficulty.
Am I the only person who has never been to a concert and would rather eat a cactus than go to one?
I'm on the top floor of a poorly-insulated midrise, and summers are absolutely miserable. I have a window AC in the bedroom, otherwise it's all ceiling fans and ice packs. I bought a few "pillow insert cooling pads" (basically a Chillow) and just put them on my neck or in my shirt during the day. Frozen water bottles also help.
Releasing wolves does tend to solve most issues in life.
It was bad.
Pros: high pay, it's easy to find hybrid work, every day there's something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.
Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)
I'd recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.
Saved y'all a click - Yakuza: Like a Dragon is $9.99.
Well yeah, that's to be expected when healthcare has a paywall.
That's that I like about IT - all I do is help people. I've had the privilege of working with some incredible nonprofits, and even playing a tiny part in their mission gives me hope.
That's your survival instinct doing what it's supposed to do. Don't let a stranger into your home, don't go into a stranger's home. That's just asking to be a victim.