I recently had a problem with one of my Jabra earbuds dying. They claimed it was no longer under warranty (even though their website promised a year or two under warranty and it had been only about 8 months). I eventually just gave up and got new earbuds. It pretty much destroyed my view of the company.
Correct, one "stick" of U.S. butter is exactly 8 tbsp regardless of shape, and almost all grocery store brands will be individually-wrapped 8 tbsp blocks.
Worked on a startup doing something very similar--would recommend against it. As everyone else is saying, the sales process is incredibly long and most local governments just aren't used to buying SaaS. Local partners are important AND you'll need to be very good at sales: can't rely on marketing to bring in customers.
It's a hard business to bootstrap unless you have a large bank account to fall back upon for years while waiting for sales growth to kick in.
Big NGOs also need technical people, too. Check out the Humane Society, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Compassion in World Farming, etc. They aren’t going to be the highest paying jobs and there are all sorts of downsides but it’s a way to use your skills to make a difference in the world.
Many would just need, at least me, a decent salary for sustaining comfortably (in my case that would be fine in just 50% of my CTC or even less) but a stellar medical insurance (yeah, I want that covered!) and work-life balance which also includes being treated and respected as a human being.
scrolling through the non-JS accessible adverts: it's like 80% of (probably VC-funded) startups offering some vision of "we are making the world a better place" for their usual, "crappy" (yes, they are also advertising) capitalists dream of:
- "aggressive ROI goals" [https://techjobsforgood.com/jobs/3172/]
If you can find clients to hire you, anything is possible. I started freelancing during the Great Recession (because I couldn’t get a job) and was able to make it work.
Find at least one client before you quit, though. And make sure you have at least 6 months of savings so that even if that client fired you on day 1, you’d be okay.
As long as companies use CRM and ERP systems, enterprise software is going to stick around. That’s just a fundamentally different proposition than one team starting to use Slack or Twilio.
I generally avoid fake meat but plenty of people don't eat meat for religious or moral reasons. They might still want something meat-like, though, and fake meat provides that.
Just to add on to this advice: if you want to do an MBA (or really even if not), stay at Facebook for a few years. Otherwise, people will think you either can't hold down a job or just lack commitment. That's a bad image to have whether you're applying to graduate programs or starting a career.
I can tell you as someone in business school now, my resume has some similarities and it has definitely hurt me.
