It doesn't matter how hard or how many times you try if you do the same thing with the same attitude over and over again. In this case, you're applying for jobs and looking for companionship with the mindset that this is the 1000th time you've been in this position and the universe owes you a break, whereas to the recruiter or potential date this is the first time they've met you. What kind of impression do you think they're forming of you when you approach them with this mindset? Is it fair to them that they're just another potential notch in the litany of life failures instead of unique individuals and roles?
If applying to jobs and making friends isn't any easier after thousands of failures, you're not using failure as a learning experiment and your situation will never improve unless you recognize what it is that you're doing that's preventing you from having the kind of success you want to have.
Maybe not enough to drive one mad on an intuitive, functional device, but enough to push one over the edge when debugging on a surface. I feel like I'm being tasked with drawing an idyllic landscape on a grain of rice with only a box of crayons, in that while it will be impressive to the .01% of users that might see it the other 99.99% will never notice nor appreciate the effort.
As a developer who spent the last few months trying to get a website with touch events to work on the surface 3, I need to get this off my chest.
Microsoft, make up your mind. Do you want a browser that websites 'just work' in or do you want to keep implementing broken standards and forcing other browsers to adopt them? Pick one and don't try to find some weird middle ground where you implement webkit touch events on ie11 mobile but not desktop even though you want us to treat them as the same browser. I'm also looking at you, pointermove events that don't ever give you x and y values other than 0. You tell us you want us to do feature detection instead of browser detection, but how am I supposed to do that when window.pointerEnabled is true for all instances of ie11 even though I don't want to register touch events when I know the user is using a mouse? Before you respond with "you should just be listening for pointer events and not worry about type", you've just asked me to make my site incompatible with every other browser on the market instead of making it slower on ie11 by registering lots of unnecessary event listeners.
Microsoft, it's over. I'm moving on, and don't try to pretend like you can change with project spartan.
If applying to jobs and making friends isn't any easier after thousands of failures, you're not using failure as a learning experiment and your situation will never improve unless you recognize what it is that you're doing that's preventing you from having the kind of success you want to have.