Love chicken, only purchase free-range organic skinned breasts. I have a small garden and I grow lettuce, kale, cabbage, dandilion greens, onions, jalapena peppers, bell peppers, carrots. I also have two avocado trees, a lemon tree. You can eat lemon and avocado leaves or make tea from them. These grow all year round here because the weather is so nice. Averages 70-80 degrees in the day and rare goes below freezing. Been here 42 years and never remember it going below freezing at night, unless you up in the Cayamaca mountains or in the desert.
Hey Alex, I noticed from another post that you are a programmer, web developer. I'm a retired software engineer. I was creating web pages when html first came out - haha. And SQL, Java, C#, C++, C, Python, and CMS-2. CMS-2 is a specialized language used to develop military systems, such as the combat direction system on aircraft carriers and destroyers.
I was also a writer and taught technical writing at a local college here. I was blessed to have such a wonderful career. Learned the other day that AI will be putting alot of software developers out of work. Always make sure you have one or two other backup careers going on so in case there a major layoff, you can find another job. The more skills you have, the more valuable you are to a development company.
I was an apprentice printer in the early 70s and thought that's what my career would be. I was trained in offset printing at a major newspaper along with the old system off using linotype machines to create metal inkplates. When offset printing took over, the entire composing rooms across the country, all the linotype operators, mostly older people, were laid off, but I wasn't. But, then after the older people were gone, they got rid of the union and the salaries went way down. Because of my paste-up skills, I got a job at a government contractor company as a paste-up artist. The pay was better, but not as much as I was used to. A person there at the company decided to teach programming to anyone who was interested because they were in desparate need of programmers. There were no college classes or sw degrees in those days (1977), so I learned to program in CMS-2. That led to my career as a software engineer for over 40 years. Retired on a nice salary.
I thank the Lord for opening the doors for me to go down that path. He knew that one day my son would break is neck and I'd have to pay a lot of money for caretakers to help me take care of him. God has been there for us all along opening doors and bringing people to our side to help when needed. Sorry to ramble on, but if I could go back to your age, I would have wanted someone to advise me on this. Maybe you could start taking classes on AI. That's what I would do. Fascinating field that's becoming very popular these days. The AI can generate the code, but a human is still needed to design and test it.
