Consistency
So I decided that I was going to start writing in this blog regularly. I'm probably not going to shoot for daily updates, but I do want to write at least twice a week.
I don't know what exactly this space is going to become, other than a log of whatever was in my head at the moment. Though that on its own has some merit. I told my fiancee that I was going to be doing this and she was supportive, because of course she is. I swear that woman is blinded by how much she loves me. I really need to keep her happy and taken care of. I do not deserve anyone that sweet. She is 100% out of my league. I know that isn't a real thing, but I don't know how else to express that she is an individual with a lot of potential, and the dedication and determination to actually see things through. While I am someone who will often start things and never come back to them. Case in point: this blog. I literally forgot it existed for 11 years.
Besides that I guess I should start writing about things going on in my life. Maybe have life updates be a thing I post here in order to help me document and externalize my achievements/acomplishments. I don't think I have any at the moment, at least none that I would consider complete. I am in school, however completing that is a few years away, and I'm not particularly enthused by it. The actual academics of school are much easier as an adult with experience, but the scheduling and persistance are much harder. I find that the most difficult thing about it is finding the wherewithal to actually do my assignments and reading. I've gotten lucky that my degree is in the same subject as my career, so I could probably teach some of these clases. It has allowed me to ace a lot of classes just with my own learned experience and a handful of google searches.
Work is a different beast entirely though. I chose a job that allows me a ton of flexibility and is relatively low stress. The issue is that there is very little room for moving to a remote role, and I have been trying to move in that direction for some time now. My plan is to find a remote job, settle in to it, then potentially move out of the country to live with my fiancee. She lives in a country with a much lower cost of living, and having the opportunity to live there allows me to potentially save about 75% of my paycheck. I don't think I need to explain how crazy that is in this day and age, especially in a major metropolitan area. Granted I would be living in a small, semi-rural town, but from my research rent in the capitol city is about $700 USD for a half decent 2 bedroom apartment near the city center.Something that is largely unheard of in the US. At least it is nowadays. The closest point of comparison would be living in a major US city in the 80's.
I've been looking to potentially expand my knowledge in order to broaden my horizons as far as work goes. One of the things I have considered is learning HTML and CSS, hence attaching this blog to the little neocities site I've been working on, though I'm 99% certain that the markets where HTML and CSS are useful is completely saturated. The irony is that my current skillset lends itself well to remote work, but the places that would be willing to take a chance on me and give me a remote job have so many applicants that the odds of even being seen are astronomical. 10 years ago my skills would have made me a top applicant. Now I'm lucky if I can make it past the AI filters. Frankly I think we need to start dropping the college education requirement for certain tiers of work. A college education is really only useful in jobs that require a very particular specialization, and are not easily learned on the job. Heck, most roles these days can be learned on the job, and don't require anything beyond the ability to think on your feet and follow instructions. We've spent so much time making the workplace more and more efficient, yet we still act like working an office job requires a four year degree.
I need to calm down and think about something else for a while.
Recently I've started a D&D campaign set in my homebrew world. It feels good to finally be doing something with it after spending the better part of two years just adding pages and pages of lore whenever the mood strikes me. I've played a handful of one shots in this world before, but nothing that couldn't be plopped wholecloth into another setting. This is going to be the first time where the PCs and the campaign are going to be strictly dependent on the setting. The players have created backstorys and I gave them the option to customize them to use specific named locations and given them some facts and tidbits of lore and culture in order to help them figure out who their character is and how they want to play them. I've got a pretty fun cast of characters and I can't wait to see the adventures they get up to. We have a goliath ranger from a town deep in the snowy mountains. Little is known about her motives, all anyone can glean is that she is looking for someone or something. We have an orc sorceress who left her clan of nomadic orcs to break away from the orcish disdain and fear of arcane magic. In my setting, orcs believe that the arcane is not to be trusted, though they have no issue with divine or primal magic. The sorceress is trying to keep her magical abilities secret, while simultaneously learning how to control them. There is the human paladin who hails from a quaint and cheerful village, who joined up with a guild to protect the innocent, but ended up quitting after years of service due to failing to save someone. She now drinks herself into a stupor regularly, and adventures in order to pay off her bar tab. We also have an elf rogue who was raised by goblins in a swamp. In my setting, goblins are the ultimate pragmatists, nothing goes to waste and everyone earns their keep. Elves on the other hand are obsessed with preserving their long lost culture, despite having a tenuous grasp of it themselves. This results in a dogged and inflexible adherence to ritual and etiquette. Our rogue is the exact opposite of this. He is a laid back, slightly shifty guy who trusts very few people, despite being pretty friendly. Speaking of his friends, his companion is a cat, and our final party member. He's taken advantage of the new tabaxi options and chosen to be a size small character in order to play a housecat. He was a great wizard in his own right, up until he turned himself into a housecat and got stuck that way. Now he seeks a cure for his particular condition. While he has lost a great deal of his power, he has not lost any of his sarcasm and sassy nature.
Overall I think it's going to be a pretty fun campaign.
With that said, I think it's time to do some schoolwork. This is Shift_, signing off.
I don't know what exactly this space is going to become, other than a log of whatever was in my head at the moment. Though that on its own has some merit. I told my fiancee that I was going to be doing this and she was supportive, because of course she is. I swear that woman is blinded by how much she loves me. I really need to keep her happy and taken care of. I do not deserve anyone that sweet. She is 100% out of my league. I know that isn't a real thing, but I don't know how else to express that she is an individual with a lot of potential, and the dedication and determination to actually see things through. While I am someone who will often start things and never come back to them. Case in point: this blog. I literally forgot it existed for 11 years.
Besides that I guess I should start writing about things going on in my life. Maybe have life updates be a thing I post here in order to help me document and externalize my achievements/acomplishments. I don't think I have any at the moment, at least none that I would consider complete. I am in school, however completing that is a few years away, and I'm not particularly enthused by it. The actual academics of school are much easier as an adult with experience, but the scheduling and persistance are much harder. I find that the most difficult thing about it is finding the wherewithal to actually do my assignments and reading. I've gotten lucky that my degree is in the same subject as my career, so I could probably teach some of these clases. It has allowed me to ace a lot of classes just with my own learned experience and a handful of google searches.
Work is a different beast entirely though. I chose a job that allows me a ton of flexibility and is relatively low stress. The issue is that there is very little room for moving to a remote role, and I have been trying to move in that direction for some time now. My plan is to find a remote job, settle in to it, then potentially move out of the country to live with my fiancee. She lives in a country with a much lower cost of living, and having the opportunity to live there allows me to potentially save about 75% of my paycheck. I don't think I need to explain how crazy that is in this day and age, especially in a major metropolitan area. Granted I would be living in a small, semi-rural town, but from my research rent in the capitol city is about $700 USD for a half decent 2 bedroom apartment near the city center.Something that is largely unheard of in the US. At least it is nowadays. The closest point of comparison would be living in a major US city in the 80's.
I've been looking to potentially expand my knowledge in order to broaden my horizons as far as work goes. One of the things I have considered is learning HTML and CSS, hence attaching this blog to the little neocities site I've been working on, though I'm 99% certain that the markets where HTML and CSS are useful is completely saturated. The irony is that my current skillset lends itself well to remote work, but the places that would be willing to take a chance on me and give me a remote job have so many applicants that the odds of even being seen are astronomical. 10 years ago my skills would have made me a top applicant. Now I'm lucky if I can make it past the AI filters. Frankly I think we need to start dropping the college education requirement for certain tiers of work. A college education is really only useful in jobs that require a very particular specialization, and are not easily learned on the job. Heck, most roles these days can be learned on the job, and don't require anything beyond the ability to think on your feet and follow instructions. We've spent so much time making the workplace more and more efficient, yet we still act like working an office job requires a four year degree.
I need to calm down and think about something else for a while.
Recently I've started a D&D campaign set in my homebrew world. It feels good to finally be doing something with it after spending the better part of two years just adding pages and pages of lore whenever the mood strikes me. I've played a handful of one shots in this world before, but nothing that couldn't be plopped wholecloth into another setting. This is going to be the first time where the PCs and the campaign are going to be strictly dependent on the setting. The players have created backstorys and I gave them the option to customize them to use specific named locations and given them some facts and tidbits of lore and culture in order to help them figure out who their character is and how they want to play them. I've got a pretty fun cast of characters and I can't wait to see the adventures they get up to. We have a goliath ranger from a town deep in the snowy mountains. Little is known about her motives, all anyone can glean is that she is looking for someone or something. We have an orc sorceress who left her clan of nomadic orcs to break away from the orcish disdain and fear of arcane magic. In my setting, orcs believe that the arcane is not to be trusted, though they have no issue with divine or primal magic. The sorceress is trying to keep her magical abilities secret, while simultaneously learning how to control them. There is the human paladin who hails from a quaint and cheerful village, who joined up with a guild to protect the innocent, but ended up quitting after years of service due to failing to save someone. She now drinks herself into a stupor regularly, and adventures in order to pay off her bar tab. We also have an elf rogue who was raised by goblins in a swamp. In my setting, goblins are the ultimate pragmatists, nothing goes to waste and everyone earns their keep. Elves on the other hand are obsessed with preserving their long lost culture, despite having a tenuous grasp of it themselves. This results in a dogged and inflexible adherence to ritual and etiquette. Our rogue is the exact opposite of this. He is a laid back, slightly shifty guy who trusts very few people, despite being pretty friendly. Speaking of his friends, his companion is a cat, and our final party member. He's taken advantage of the new tabaxi options and chosen to be a size small character in order to play a housecat. He was a great wizard in his own right, up until he turned himself into a housecat and got stuck that way. Now he seeks a cure for his particular condition. While he has lost a great deal of his power, he has not lost any of his sarcasm and sassy nature.
Overall I think it's going to be a pretty fun campaign.
With that said, I think it's time to do some schoolwork. This is Shift_, signing off.
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