PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

No because we can and ought to have a world without global superpowers and states overall.

It sounds to me like you’re flourishing??

I appreciate the sentiment, but it certainly feels like I’m not. More accurately, I really feel like I’m not flourishing in a sustainable way. Sure, the next three months are going to be a lot of fun doing research and finishing up my graduate degree, but what about six months from now when I’m a washed-up graduate with no job and no school again?

but with your skills you are at least able to earn enough scratch to probably achieve a lot of this, especially if you can connect with the right folks.

I applied for over 300 jobs last year with zero offers. I’m autistic and I really have a lot of trouble socializing with people, so I really haven’t been able to connect with the right folks for the most part.

I would be mentally drafting up a plan to trick you into being my friend.

I mean my DMs are open 😆

• Record/produce/write music, particularly extreme metal. Already achieved some of it on last year. extremely small scale before I went to school for electrical engineering. But I really want to “go pro” and work with other people, build my own studio from the ground up, and bring some technical rigor to music production. For this, I really need independence more than money, because I don’t think I could find a job in engineering if an employer knew I had such a background, but money —> independence.

• Design and build professional audio software and hardware with open source code and open hardware. To that end, I got a degree in electrical engineering and I am taking a digital signal processing class this semester, although I already taught myself all the mathematics and built an audio equalizer last semester based on that knowledge. I’ve already started learning the JUCE library, but I haven’t had the time lately to do stuff.

For the above two, more than straight-up money, I really need space to set up a studio, and free time to do it. I even have enough gear to get back into it once I get space. But to get space, I need money. I also need money to fabricate PCBs for the types of boards I want to build (lots of mixed-signal stuff that a breadboard could mess with).

• Smash capitalism and the State. But IMO I don’t make for an effective mouthpiece. I feel I will be more useful paying bail bonds, giving comrades a place to crash/lay low, and providing monetary support for Food Not Bombs, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Anarchist Black Cross, etc., once I get a job.

• Smash fossil fuels and contribute to renewable energy, preferably with an emphasis on distributed power generation. I can’t say too much without doxxing myself, but I’m doing some academic research into how renewables interact with the grid.

• Learn as much math, physics, philosophy, and history as possible so I can “try stuff” easily. I’m currently a lot farther ahead on the first two.

Thank you for posting that. I really needed to see that today.

Edit: I think you meant to post 2012-09-02, right?

Me in the shower in my late 20’s watching all the remaining open doors to possibly achieve my dreams close right in front of my eyes (because my dreams need money/food to happen) 😭