If people say ‘i have excel competence’, the difference could be between ‘i can resize fonts and do tables for my company forms because I don’t know how to do them in word’ to ‘fully modelling a business plan for a Telco, including it’s subsidiary units’. Make sure you test for the level of competence you’re after.

Learn a new formula every now and then, or at very least learn to read other people’s formulas, then google what you don’t know. Literacy in any field is the result of a long process of learning.

(Reread your question) Outside of IT: if an appliance stops working, it’s sometimes just a fuse that needs replacing. It’s cheap and easy to do.

Not a dishwasher, but may be related. I air dry my clothes indoors, sometimes overnight, and used to get that damp rag smell on my clothes as a result. Solution: toss in a tbs of baking soda - no more smell.

Spaghetti storage. What you described I’d do with an old tennis ball can. Glass jars have uses.

I did this once, rolled over and to the side in one motion. Worst sprain of my life, including the time I took a jumper and landed my full weight on my ankle. It was the only time I had to stop whatever it was I was doing and get home asap. The drive back wasn’t bad but the next morning I got out of bed I couldn’t put pressure on my ankle at all. Swelled to the size of my calves and looked bruised and nasty. Took me out for a month and even so, I was put on crutches, but no cast. Get it looked at. Not all sprains are the same.

When a large proportion of their user base no longer believes/ knows/ cares that they actually have a choice. Or that a small hit in convenience or familiarity is worth the gain in liberty and personal freedom.

I used to work in MNC consulting (big-5, tier-1 clients), but started a side gig for a friend’s sme company on weekends - it kinda grew from there. I had an opportunity to get into pretty much the entire business and mess around/ optimize different aspects of it, and built systems where they were needed, and as a nice side effect developed an intimate knowledge of said business aspects. End result? I have deep knowledge of particular niche segment and in my country at least, in this segment, I can confidently say I service, or have serviced the majority of companies.

Tl;dr: keep your ears open, find a friendly opportunity and work it hard. It gets easier as you go along.

This is unfortunate, but all to common. The joy of coding gets lost in politics, deadlines,.documentation and process. If this is you, you might want to give gig process work a shot. As a developer, you’re actually intimately familiar with how systems work and interact, abstraction, and the interactions between the boxes. I’m pushing 50, have 4 consulting retainers going that have been with me for over 10 years each, and I’m still feeling the same buzz of figuring out my customers processes, developing a solution and seeing it implemented as I designed. Coding is the drudgery, but when you’re playing a meaningful part in effecting company wide change, it’s something else.

Get into a sport yould enjoy. Find like minded people and have fun. Take it seriously, and the fitness just comes as a by product.

Get into a sport yould enjoy. Take it seriously, and the fitness just comes as a by product.

It’s only a problem if it comes and goes. Then your headlight oil sensor is probably shot. Heads up: it’s not a cheap fix.

Same. Whatsapp. The market has become so fragmented that it’s all about social clout and what you can compel others to install just to talk to your sorry ass.