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Not saying this is a good approach for OP, but I like this comment. Good for you, justinyee17. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and you’re finding the ways that work for you. I think if I were to pursue something more physical, I’d try to go for something with a higher barrier to entry personally, I.e. I’d pick the car mechanic role over deckhand.

It’s not really a specific tool, but I came across another comment on HN where someone used an LLM to generate Anki cards from textbooks. I’ve been doing this with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and it’s been very effective.

Do you have significant ownership in the company? If not, I don't see any reason for you to give frank feedback.

You can't know for sure whether the information will reach them, nor whether they will be able to infer who provided the feedback.

The best possible outcome for you if you have no ownership is...senior management is better informed on what employees think of this manager. You don't know what they'll do with this info.

The worst possible outcome for you is that the manager is able to infer it was you that provided certain feedback, and that they are upset by this feedback. This could result in you losing the job eventually (they could make your life difficult, claim you're not performing well etc. etc.)

It probably makes the most sense (assuming you're primarily concerned with remaining employed to provide for your family) to maximize the level of positivity in all of your feedback.

Hey, I’m probably not the best person to give an answer for this, but since you’re not getting comments…

To keep track of progress, you could create dashboards, maybe using Python or JavaScript. Would managing the git repo include CI/CD? The role sounds like it involves some DevOps components. If so, push for access to Python so you can automate some of these tasks. Sounds like it involves some project management stuff as well, so you could take the opportunity to learn how to set stuff up in Jira (if that’s what is being used).

Do you have a CS degree? If not, I’d suggest starting an online CS degree such as Oregon State University’s or the Georgia Tech masters. Get a feel for how intense the job will be first though. I suspect that, since it’s public admin in the EU, and if you’ve been able to automate some tasks, it will be fairly relaxed. Doing a degree while working full time is still exhausting though.

Look up job descriptions for DevOps , or try to find to find the role it most closely matches with, and go deep. Find an excuse to use the tools/methods typically used in the job postings you see, and you’ll be in a good position to find one of those jobs after a while. If they won’t allow you to, practice using those tools outside of work, or get involved with open source projects.

Yeah, their mentored bugs program for contributors is great, and if I wasn't concerned with my career trajectory at the moment I would probably just continue out of pure interest & for the learning opportunities.

Do you think career advancement from continued contributions is likely in my case though? Or should I invest my time elsewhere?

Thank you. So you think I should focus my learning activities on refreshing ML/stats knowledge? Also, I would have thought that the SWE jobs at tech companies are the positions with very specific requirements (experience with certain tools etc) whereas their data positions might be more general?

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Re battery life, it was decent I think. We left it plugged in most of the time though - it comes with a long charging cable.

We took the option of ordering one of the tablets they provide with the software installed already, since he didn’t have a tablet, but you can also just install the app onto a tablet that meets the specs listed on their website. The tablet we got was a large Lenovo one, and the performance seemed decent enough.

I don’t think they can fully remote in, but they can push updates to the tablet I think.

I think the extent to which you can access it remotely is limited to the options in their website/app for family members. You can add administrators with varying access levels, contacts with/without admin privileges , and add and remove links/available apps etc.

If she has pills to take, you can also set up various reminders, questionnaires on how she’s feeling today etc.

The features we used the most were the text messaging and video calling ones - he didn’t really do much browsing. I did try adding links for him, some YouTube videos etc., and it worked fine. The text messaging can be set up so that it sends to your email and/or phone.

Maybe not something you want to even think about, but one thing I really appreciated was having access to all of the messages etc. after he passed. We exchanged many messages, and their support team was able to give me a download link to all of them before ending services.

Hope you find the right solution for your grandmother :) I fully recommend Claris!