1. Stepping into WW2 to defeat the nazis and axis powers.
2. Govt is largest overseas aid provider to poorer nations, also on avg, the avg american (normal people not millionares or corporations) give more money and donations to charites around the world than any other industrialized country in the world.
3. The American Revolution helped usher humanity into the Enlightment Period, combined with the writing of the Constitution. Hard to overestimate these contribution to humanity.
Some random list i found on the internet if that helps:
The US has made many mistakes as the world's superpower. Someomes gotta be in charge though. The natural state of things is not peace and hugs and kisses. They have been fighting over resources since the dawn of humanity, and someone needs to have the biggest military to tell people to stop fighting with eachother.
I see this company has been consulting for government agencies for 20 years so idk if you can blame Trump for this one,
But it does look like the founders (who don't seem to be be involved with the company anymore for almost a decade) are repubs (biggest donation is 10K and mostly to Oklahoma and Texas regional politicians not national candidates):
Canned from my first sales job, during my second sales job spent time on freecodecamp and other sites like that but still was very intimidated by bugs and learning new tools.
Did a bootcamp, but luckily was kicked out of bootcamp for failing a test and got my money back.
Did a field engineer job where i travled to different factories to help install robots. Still not traditional software engineering.
Did a free bootcamp, worked as a teacher at the free bootcamp (most fun ive ever had in my career even though it was only 3 months),
Worked as a software dev (really just managing off shore devs) for a big consulting company at a bank for 1.5 years. Low pay, 1 of about 10 American citizens in department of about 5000 technical staff at bank, weird job.
After this, finally got a nice dev job which i am happy with.
All in all, took about 3 years after i got laid off, until getting to the job I am happy with now. Getting through recruiters in those initial stages is very hard, but after you get professional experience that barrier pretty much disappears.
SaaS Sales job: Failed to make sales quota, put on probation, failed to make quota again the next month, was ushered out the door. First adult job (ignoring the non career jobs) and first job firing.
Another SaaS Sales job: My sales were fine, highest in our department, new director came in, i didnt really want to be there anymore, invited the whole department out for burritos, execpt for the unlucky 10 of us whobwere prompty canned by HR lol. This was a blessing in disguise transitioned into software development after.
If you are accusing me of lying im not lol. I assume he got north of 125k for a top dev job not 70k
You could grow a lot as an engineer in three months in the right environment assuming a guided curriculum is able to channel your energies in the right places and teachers/fellow students are able to help as well. I imagine you could also be bored for 3 months, or overly stressed for 3 months, and have negative feelings in regards to that experience. Like most things in life, its not right for everyone and its not wrong for everyone.
I have lots of friends who've paid for coding bootcamps, most are rather content with the services provided. I know some students as well that feel they were swindled out of cash because they weren't able to get a top tier job right out of the program and resorted to previous career path that they were already unhappy with.
I think its great that the good bootcamps that show success are trying to branch out to more normal learners, not just the greatly gifted or qualified (like an Ivy league degree) few, it is a noble sign that these schools are trying to expand using their special sauce to help more averagely qualified student transition into professional software engineering. Ivy league schools, do not do this. They have hundreds of years of success and don't feel the need to teach more students every year. (in regards to their on campus facilities not online programs that clearly dont offer the same experience)
If Lambda or the other top tier bootcamps capped their programs at 10 students a year or cohort, all of whom had ivy degrees or significant personal experience, all of whom who would get jobs immediately out of school, they would better be able to keep their graduation rates/salary rates top notch, they wouldnt have any students complaining online,
I commend them for trying to expand and help more students, and im sure they will stumble and get better as time goes on.
None of the good bootcamp schools that I am aware of just ignore feedback, because they know students will stop going to the school if feedback is ignored as they dont have hundreds of millions of dollars in funding like universities do.
Like i said, if you can spare the cash, and want to do a bootcamp, it might make sense for you,
I wouldnt discredit all of the bootcamps as useless money wasters, everyone has different goals/aspirations reasons for doing a bootcamp rather than jumping straight into the workforce. The MIT CS guy did end up getting a great dev job right out of the program.
I think some CS grads come out of school with a lack of practical framework knowledge, i mean like React or Ruby on Rails, rather than spend 5 months learning/building on their own, these top tier students choose to learn/build in a managed environment so it takes them 3 rather than 5 months. They are promised assistance with applying to jobs as well which can be a nerve wrecking process for a university grad. If you have the money and want to jump into the work force ASAP it makes sense to me.
The in person bootcamps ive found have had great community vibes to them. Fun being surrounded by fellow students/teachers, schools all have fun/studious/interesting faculty and students.
I taught the first few weeks of a FREE intro to software engineering bootcamp and had a few lower tier university CS grads who were happy with the curriculum/services rendered, they would just tune me out when i was covering something they already knew and would study/program while the less informed students would work through problems/Q/A with me.
I dont know anything about Lambda's failures to serve students other than most students are upset at paying for less than steller experiences (most of the other prestigious bootcamps share this), but my gut tells me I dont think they grew to fast, its just the calibur of student went down, i feel like the hot new bootcamp of the day is able to get really bright and/or qualified students. More average learners require more time and resources and the nonspecial sauce will NOT get them a dream job in less than a year which is the opposite of what all of the marketing leads u to beleive for all the bootcamps.
Lambda seems to have been trying to branch out to more normal learners.
Students that dont share those bright/already qualified credentials, do benifit a little bit of a "rub" effect by being associated with those bright/qualified students, and get to study/work with them during the course of the bootcamp so everyone wins in the short term. For average learners without significant backround IT knowledge or a prestigious degree, realistically they are going to need more than 3-6 months or a year to get a cushy programming job in the US (which seems to be what all of the bootcamps advertise they can offer students).
I consider myself an average/below average speed learner, took a bootcamp, i was surprised to learn the guy i was pair programming with had a CS degree from MIT lol. Some devs already had work programming experience, but most of us normies benifited by pairing with them and talking to them about problems/code/computers/study habits.
You dont really learn the "magic happening under the hood" due to all of Springboots default configurations, but still i would start there because easier to get going, and then I would try build projects without Springboot (and use older Java frameworks) if you are doing so to prepare for a job that uses some legacy framework you want to prep for.
I was surprised to see that many of the eastern European/Russian immigrants moving to Israel over the last 40 years don't supply any evidence of Jewish heritage (i know USSR and other European countries discriminated against Jews so it would make sense that there are a lot of Jews who don't really have the papers to prove it for a few generations).
An article I read said many French jews immigrated to Israel (due to rather recent French anti-semitism sentiment) but immigrated back to Europe once economic advancement for them wasn't attained.
Looks like Israeli society has had kind of an open door policy to Europeans who are able to attain employment (i assume in the tech scene there).
Sounds like you have some great skills/experience,
I was just looking for a job for a few months. I would recommend first planning:
-when do i run out of money and need to take any job i can get
-how long am i willing to continue to train my skills/apply to jobs before i want to give up and take any job? (make sure to take advantage of having the ability to keep learning/improving your skills while you are not working)
-what is the minimum amount of money you need to take a job? any other deal breakers? sounds like emacs might be one for you. I would apply to every emacs job in your country/region (at least 25 resume submissions a week)
I dont know how to answer "what is the right job for you". If you want to be an automation-engineer (i dont really know what that is exactly), i would recommend talking to some automation-engineers for their thoughts on your experience/what you need to do to make yourself more hire-able/cold-emailing people on linkedin works sometimes and could lead to referrals.
-reverse recruiting: messaging people on linkedin asking to talk about getting referred
General advice
If we assume 1/100 resumes get seen by a human in a company recruiting department, and youve gotten 10 interviews/a few hundred resume submissions. you have an unusually high resume response rate. Keep applying! Try not get frustrated
-spend 30 min/hr a day practicing leetcode/reading cracking the coding interview to improve algo skills as a lot of companies ask these things
-keep building projects and stuffing it in your github and try make commits to open source projects (documentation fixes is better than no commits)
PayPal users can get added security/ease of use by not having to re-enter details in browser, so I assume that probably reduces the amount of customers from bailing on a purchase half way through inputing their payment details.
I've never posted on the "Who wants to be hired" but I've applied to a number of positions on the "Who's Hiring" and consistently get feedback from those.
If you've been looking for a job for year without any promising job leads, i would recommend:
-seek some feedback on your resume
-speak to some professional developers for some general advice on getting the first job
I'd be happy to help if you want to message me on twitter @jakeduchen
If you are working for a company that is large enough to have a legal team you can ask them about it.
I asked a software company this about 2 years ago in the bay area and they gave me a form to sign stating it doesnt compete with the company's products and i explained what i was doing.
Some southeners are rascist, get over it