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Comment · 6 years ago
Are there any food service establishments out there that solely focus on delivery? No walk-ins, no dining in but only delivery? Their staff would pretty much consist of cooks and delivery employees and the facility would be big enough for a kitchen and prep area.

I would think a setup like that with good food would do well in this new reality we are in.

I imagine it would challenging for a restaurant to focus on a good dine-in experience alongside a good delivery service, especially considering the low margins.

Comment · 6 years ago
"I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of schools just switched to having their teachers attempt to do their normal teaching via Zoom"

This is exactly what is happening in our school district and it is a big failure. That and teachers emailing their lesson plans for parents to print or parents can go to the school and pick up printed packets. We then have the joy of taking photos of the completed work and emailing those back to the teachers.

It is extremely inefficient and I have already informed our school that we will not be doing that if we are stuck in this scenario come fall. We will be using Khan for math and other online learning platforms for LA.

Comment · 6 years ago
I don't disagree with you. She worries about him and his safety.
Comment · 6 years ago
One of my friends sons is making $300 to $500 per day working Instacart right now. Partly because where we live the demand is high and there are not enough Instacarters to meet that demand. The delivery time is currently at least 3 days out. He is young and healthy so he doesn't really have that fear.
Comment · 6 years ago
We submitted our app through Chase the morning it opened. Days went by before we heard anything and that was an automated email that basically said they received our app. This morning I got an email stating the program is out of money, but they will keep our app on file for if/when more funds are allocated to it.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is awesome! I love hearing that others are doing this. I do something similar but I run after school clubs. I work mostly with 5th through 8th graders and run clubs 5 days per week in 5 different local schools.

It is a lot of work but so rewarding and I feel it has made me a better developer. I myself have learned so much from doing it. I have met so many amazing kids & parents too and it's made me a much bigger part of my community.

Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think the title of this article is good or portrays what it is really getting at. It is not really about having a cushy job that you like going to, but instead more about how jobs available today don't pay well.

The pay does not match up to inflation, healthcare costs and cost of living. Put the cost of higher education into that mix and it just adds to the problem. So many are stuck paying off high students loans to only be able to get mediocre paying jobs.

"only 40 percent of Americans currently have 'good' jobs."

Meaning head of household jobs. That is a problem!

Comment · 7 years ago
Trying to force introverts into pro-longed extroversion is exhausting. It is not how we are built. I think oftentimes people view introverts as anti-social, which is not always the case. We are just differently social.

Instead of trying to force introverts to be more like extroverts, encourage them to share their skills/talents in a positive way. This is where you will see us shine and you might even forget that we are introverts.

Throwing us into a party with 100 strangers and expecting us to thrive, is not gonna do it. Asking us to teach a large group of strangers something valuable or lead a project that we know a lot about will energize us like nothing else. This is how we connect with people and how we make our mark in society.

A lot of introverts are quiet leaders and have a way of making a huge impact in ways that extroverts just don't understand. Don't get me wrong, I love the extroverts in my life, but I don't want to be like them :)

Comment · 7 years ago
LinkedIn is a place where I can have my professional profile. That is pretty much it for me. I have tried to engage otherwise on there but it is filled with spam, recruiters and other egocentric entrepreneurs and marketing people who are trying way too hard.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't buy anything that I would put into my body from Amazon. This also includes creams, make-up, etc. Way too many counterfeits to trust them and trying to figure out which are legit is a huge task in itself.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why is this concerning? The public school system has a lot of issues. My son went to public school until 6th grade and I about pulled my hair out with issue after issue. We put him in a hybrid charter school program (3 days homeschool, 2 days in class) for 7th and 8th and started my youngest in this same program from kindergarten. Both are well ahead academically of their peers and grade level.

There are a ton of homeschool groups in our area too that organize activities where all of the kids get together. It is very active giving kids plenty of opportunity to socialize.

We don't homeschool for religious reasons. We do it because we want our kids to get the best possible education without all of the indoctrination and other crap that is pushed through the public education system. This is pretty much the reason most of the other homeschoolers that I engage with do it too. I think homeschooling has a bad rap because of the media and a few bad apples but at least from my experience, that portrayal is not the norm.

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