Well done You guys!
But an Awesome country, I love Japan.
I know, I have witnessed that first hand and the last time I was there, I took this photo.
This guy rocking 3 of the latest iPhones.
Black, Silver, Gold
Many companies will actually provide you with a mobile phone so you can work, tether to internet and receive phone calls. Then they would also have to carry their own personal phones. However some Japanese do love their mobile phonesā¦
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Further derail
Sorry for derailing, but just to further share.
A few of the hotels I stayed at came with courtesy cellphones you could use freely throughout your stay.
My previous company provided a cellphone. I refused it. They asked why: I told them I didnāt want them to piss me off when Iām not at work. They werenāt pleased 
Right to disconnect.
You have the right to ignore and not reply if you are not on working hours, even to turn off the device if you are not to be available to your work people.
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Thatās the theory. In practice, I often noticed that my managers didnāt take it too well when I turned off the company cellphone (or the company laptop), and I noticed it was subtly but definitely used against me because other employees were āmore flexibleā.
So eventually, I resorted to refusing any corporate trojan horse into my personal life entirely - including company cars. That way, I piss them off only once, then they have no other option than to leave me be, and I have no perks they could pressure me into doing something I donāt want to do in return of.
@RyuuzakiJulio np man ! Take your time. you do a wonderful job, canāt wait for the application to be available on iphone
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Well I still havenāt feel comfortable with even the simple idea of working for someone elseās company. I guess, the same way, some people would feel more comfortable just working for someone else, and take those ātrojan horsesā as just part of the jobs they take.
LoL Canāt take my time. I need to finish it ASAP for real.
Weāre definitely of different stocks on that one: I donāt want to be an entrepreneur or be self employed, and I have no ambition to climb up the ladder in whatever company I join, for the following reasons:
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Working is to put food on the table and pay the bills. Thereās no element of pride in it for me. Itās just something I do to keep me and my family alive. If I win the lottery tomorrow, Iāll resign the next day.
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Working uses up a sizable portion of the one resource I am a limited supply of: the number of hours I have left on this Earth. The less I waste there, the more I can spend with my family and doing the things I like.
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I avoid stress like the plague. Stress makes me age faster and reduces my life expectancy.
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Iām not greedy, but my one luxury is to have enough money to never look at my bank account statements, and hire accountants to do tedious chores like filing tax return forms. Again, I aināt got time for this, nor do I want the stress.
For those reasons, I always gun the highest-paying job with the least responsibility I can find, in the most financially secure company I can find, with little or no company drama or toxic environment, in whatever country offers the best environment with the best social services. Thatās the biggest reason why I keep jumping from country to country, incidentally: I keep looking for the perfect combo.
Whenever I apply for a job somewhere, I fully disclose that I donāt do chronic overtime (i.e. if I do overtime, I will recover those hours at some point later, whether they like it or not), Iām not available for āemergenciesā outside working hours, I will join the local union, and I will go straight to the union rep if somethingās fishy. If they donāt like it, fine: I donāt want to work for them.
As for maximizing my salary, I found a way that doesnāt involve busting my ass off at work: having very obscure skills and certifications that are in high demand. When youāre a specialist in one area or another and your employer canāt find nobody else, you suddenly find it very easy to dictate your terms of employment during your hiring interview. It also makes said hiring interview much less stressful. Thatās the reason why I keep going to evening school as an adult: the more odd skills I have, the more employable I am.
And best of all, when I hold a job in a company I like, I find the time I spend at work to be enjoyable, so it doesnāt feel like Iām wasting it. My current job is pretty golden in that respect: I really think I hit the jackpot this time!
So you see, a guy like me could never be self-employed But it seems to be working out well for me: I have a great life, and I donāt think Iāve lost out compared to a successful entrepreneur. Sure, Iāll never have my personal jet and Iāll never be able to boast that Iām the CEO of some well-known company, like Amal. But thatās not what life is about for me.
Sorry for the derail btw
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I am going to get my Spark 2 implanted next week!! 
And I still own no Android! 
Totally relying on you to make that implant work with my stack! 
āā:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Ahh the pressure is real!!
Iāll try to get at least some basic functionality ready to go soon. Apple takes a while to accept apps. But Iāll get it on ASAP.
I just got my Spark 2 last week too. Loving it and so exited to make projects with it.
But yeah first things first.
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Oh Snap!
Not sure how many people is following the Trello Dev Board. But I am pretty pumped for the last few things I have left to do.
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Any obscure skills you can recommend? 
Yep. I personally go for
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Very old trades that are on the verge of disappearing: I can do Cobol or assembly programming, and I am a qualified gunsmith for instance. The market is very small, but the number of people who can service it it is even smaller.
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Perfectly current trades that are extremely specialized: I hold certs in aero quality assurance - specifically DO-178 software - and I have years of experience as an ISO-9001 product QA engineer. There is zero shortage of work in QA, for the simple reason that itās almost never taught in universities, and employers go for experience rather than degrees in that field. You have to be willing to play the long game with that one though, because itās the sort of job you get into through the backdoor (being hired as a simple QC operator or as an assistant QA documenter for instance) and that requires you to work your way up, convincing your boss that youāre worth investing 10s or 100s K$ certifying.
I have never been out of work because thereās always something for me to do somewhere.
Bonus points: work for military contractors. Not only do you automatically get a NATO clearance - and if you do QA, you get valuable military certifications also - but also military expenditures always go up when things go bad. In those COVID times, this is where Iām at now and my company has rarely been so busy and so flush with cash. My bonus in December was extremely substantial.
In short: donāt ride the wave of high-tech or newfangled shit. Eventually youāll slow down and the wave will overtake you and wash you out. Stay on the trawler behind the wave, or get out of the sea altogether and stay on the beach.
Planned on taking a cobol course at uni but theyāve stopped offering it a few years ago 
Unis always think they need to teach the latest and greatest tech to make their freshly-minted graduates attractive on the job market. But what invariably happens is, the graduates think theyāre the hottest shit in town when they look for their first job, but quickly realize that
1/ The uni didnāt quite have the money it takes to really teach whatās on the crest of the high-tech wave, and taught them tech thatās a few years behind already
2/ There are many, MANY hottest shits like them coming onto the job market and saturating it
3/ They have no work experience, and employers always ask for x years of experience in anything. Funny anecdote: the year C# came out (2001 or something), my employer at the time posted a job offer for a C# programmer with 5 years of experience in C#. Whateverā¦ But guess what: people applied
Like the WOPR said, the best way to win this game is not to play. Thatās what I do.
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