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Oh no the upset wasn't about not getting the job or anything; I'll learn that in a couple weeks

It's an engineering position which would be great because that's kind of what I'm trained for :L

Old... So old...

You know, I still have difficulties processing the fact that those newborns I saw people carry here and there in the streets in the late 1990's and early 2000's are the same teenagers I see nowadays hanging near the gates of the middle and high-schools here.

Oxymoron wrote:You know, I still have difficulties processing the fact that those newborns I saw people carry here and there in the streets in the late 1990's and early 2000's are the same teenagers I see nowadays hanging near the gates of the middle and high-schools here.

I know what you mean. I teach children who aren't even as old as the film Iron Man.

Dude... my cousins that I held when they were infants have infants of their own now. One has a toddler.

As far as I can tell no one in my generation of the family has kids yet, despite some being in their 30s.

two of my three sisters have kids now

or more exactly two of my sisters have each birthed a daughter.

My mother was the youngest of ten + children, my father was the oldest of five. At the age of thirty-whatever myself, this means I have cousins still in high school and cousins that are grandparents.

It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world

Mind you my friend Alinta can beat that. She's five years younger than me, but we discovered her uncle had been a next door neighbour of mine; we had been the same age. She also has a few uncles that are actually younger than her by ten years. Her grandfather was... Prolific.

So I just had a meeting with the CTO of the district.

By all accounts, of everyone who has the position I wanted and the CTO herself, I should have the full time, salaried position I applied for. The reason I don't is because the budget that they were using to hire people was cut from underneath them after my second interview process. I was 5 out of 6 people they were hiring, and suddenly they could only hire 4.

sigh.

Damn. Sorry to hear that.

There's some hope for the future, it's just frustrating. Like, if I was a bad person or bad for the position, that'd be something I could fix and have control over. Instead, nope, someone just wanted more money for another thing.

On the plus side, Cosmic Star Heroine's kickstarted released this http://zeboyd.com/wp-content/uploads/20 ... pscale.png so I'm feeling a little better existentially.

to cut down on repeated stuff I'll just link my post here

one thing I forgot to add was that I haven't really had a chance to spend time naked outside a lot this year so this was a really really nice chance to get that in too

yeah. These reading glasses aren't doing shit, and the only response i'm getting from the ophthalmologist is "give yourself more time to adjust." I now experience eye pain when I:

1. Drive my car
2. Go to work
3. walk

All of which are activities I shouldn't need the glasses for according to his diagnosis.

I think it's time to get a second opinion.

How long have you had the glasses? It can actually take your eyes quite a while to adjust.

That happened to me a few years back. This was after having worn glasses or contacts for 15 years, 20...

The new glasses just focused differently, I guess(?), and it was like my eyes needed to be in a different position to see, which led to eye and head aches. It resolved itself, but it took a couple weeks.

Then I got LASIK and don't worry about it anymore.

I'm the only one in my family who doesn't need glasses or contacts to be able to see perfectly.

I sometimes wonder why...

Bounty wrote:How long have you had the glasses? It can actually take your eyes quite a while to adjust.

2 weeks last Thursday, and I'm honestly not noticing any improvement, and they say they're only for reading, but I notice the tension and pain while i'm looking at things farther away than reading distance.

The Spartan wrote: Then I got LASIK and don't worry about it anymore.

How effective was the LASIK, and how much did it cost? If I can't adjust to glasses, I might need to look into it.

The LASIK gave me 20/15 vision. So very effective.

The cost, if I remember right, was around $4500 seven years ago. Your mileage may very depending on where you are, what your medical care access situation is, etc.

One thing I will say is that this isn't the thing you shop around for a bargain on. Shop for competence, not price. Then pay whatever the cost is, if you can, and pass if you can't.

pfft, I'll do it for $50 with a laser pen made out of an old DVD drive laser
can't say fairer than that

evilsoup wrote:pfft, I'll do it for $50 with a laser pen made out of an old DVD drive laser
can't say fairer than that

CYBERPUNK STREET DOCTOR

Is LASIK something covered by insurance anymore or is it still something purely out of pocket?

For me it was out-of-pocket. (And it was actually my parents footing the bill...)

Now, I think it depends on your insurance.

One thing my doctor suggested was to get new lenses that are actually half my current prescription and wear them for a few months to allow my eyes to get used to glasses before kicking it up to the full amount, but each lens change would be like 100$ out of pocket since I don't have optical coverage.