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When you only need 1 but the minimum quantity is 100.

What do I do with 99 nuts?

刚才读了这篇，读的时候觉得有些瘆人，加上屋里的电风扇把窗帘吹得四处乱撞，有那么一点点被吓到。

可是结尾吧，好像有点抽象，反正我是没理解。看来在克苏鲁和SCP的世界观下，大傻子才是最安全的。狗看了都摇头，还什么精神影响，我跟你说那都没用（

@niclas Thanks for sharing! Which I learned a lot!

I would say now we have more people in China, for graduates-only jobs, it's kind of 1000:1 in software/internet companies.

English is a must-have condition for graduating, so can't really beat others at that. My personal projects are kind of toy-level. I wrote for my own needs or just for fun (doing C stuff in Java, kind of suffering, but in a funny way). My final project, I don't think it's a highly advanced one, but definitely not a simple one. I do put it on GitHub but didn't really finish the document.

I graduated in June, 2022. Over the last year, I found out that "I probably shouldn't focus on big companies" in a hard way (wasting a year to apply to different companies and ended up still not getting employed). But the startup/small company didn't go well either. Maybe lowering the salary is a doable strategy, that's new to me.

Anyway, really thanks for the advice!

@trinsec If the paper trick doesn't work, you can always try to swap the micro switch. I didn't do that because the least amount I can buy is 100 pieces per pack. There are retailers but each switch cost 0.5 USD with 2USD of shipping? No thanks. LOL

@trinsec The double click issue can be solved by a piece of paper. My last trackball has the same issue on left click. I tried to stick a piece of paper on the switch, I don't know why, but it works.

@niclas Thanks for your advice!

I do have a bachelor's degree in computer science because I started programming in Java since high school. I found it pretty interesting and I want to know more about it.

But taking programming as a job, aka serving the enterprise, is different from taking it as a hobby. The key point is how to get paid, either I obey the enterprise's rules, or I start my own business. As a fresh graduate, I don't think starting a business without related knowledge is a good idea. But serving the enterprises introduces the second point: how we're treated. In China, employees are not treated well. (ref: https://996.icu/#/en_US)

> I do reject several offers that pay well. They supply software to help the government apply censorship. Which I really hate. If they are the only job I can have, I'd rather starve to death.

With multiple companies laid off their employees, nowadays the low-paying jobs are also hard to find (considering we have 12 million graduates this year and a high unemployment rate). I sent out a lot of resumes, and 90% of them were no response. The 5% of them rejected me, and the last 5% of them decided I'm not the person they are looking for.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now I'm seeking ideas to make money. But due to the limited resources I have, I can't really try them out and phase out the failed one.

@trinsec That's a good plan.But I'm still struggling to find a job😂

@trinsec Asian parents are generally that horror. They don't care what you think or what you want, they just want you to be what they want you to be. I'm lucky enough to have parents who think programming is a decent job, so they didn't go against me too much on that topic.

But handwork? I can't imagine how they will react.

Also, welfare support in China is a huge joke, LOL.

@lucifargundam @trinsec I'm still evaluating that idea. Checking the price of related devices, what resources I will need, how popular they are, and the most important thing: how I know how to cut gemstones.

But I didn't find too many videos on YouTube on gemstone dices. Most dice makers are using resin.

@trinsec I am now considering whether to change my career to be a carpenter or making gemstone dices for a living. I like making things, but I'm usually limited by the space and resources I have.

And my Aisan parents might be highly sensitive about my decision, after I spent 4 years in the university. LOL.

@trinsec I do have passion on programing, but not the one those enterprises need. I write posts for my blog monthly, mainly about some random stuff I did in the last month, like writing a simple read-only FUSE in Kotlin, dig into how email system prevents spam, record how I implemented a P2P chat system in Minecraft, etc. I do enjoy them, I did that for about 5 or 6 years, and I still want to keep doing that.

I generally hope I can turn my passion for programming into a job, which I don't suffer from. But based on situation, where I know the enterprise doesn't need a SpringBoot and MySQL master to build a product, and the enterprise knows that too, but they still want to hire a person who mastered those things and pay him/her an entry level salary, I don't think the job is the one I want. A Java programmer who masters the SpringBoot, database, cloud, knows how SpringBoot and MySQL work internally, knows how to design cloud-native applications, works 12 hours a day, and gets paid less than 2K USD per month? I would call it greedy.

While other people have workarounds, I don't like it. They simply repeat those Q&As and pretend to know everything about those things but in fact they rarely understood them. I think programing is about doing something and learning from it, not memory something and don't know how to use it.

@Candinya 不好使，因为想起来丢的时候早就不知道去向了（