Personally, I'm going insane with my job. I'm supposed to be a sys admin, but after automating 90% of my work I'm a glorified helpdesk worker. The first couple of years were fun for me because I had a massive pile of shit to fix, but now it's no good.
Unfortunately, my external debts make a requirement that I have to stick at this job (I'd love to just blow them off, but wife and all of that). I can't find anything posted in my region that pays as well, I don't have enough saved to move (and no, that's not something likely to happen soon).
So, obviously for me it's cash and a new pile of shit to work on.
What would get you to move to a new job?
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[–] TheBuddha ago
The truth of the matter is that 0.999... = 1 AND I can prove it. It's also bullshit - but it has to be true, else the whole thing collapses.
Here's a quick essay that I wrote a week back:
http://thebuddha.ml/2017/11/28/0-333-%e2%89%a0-1-3/
If it didn't work, then we'd have some serious math problems. However, anyone that tells you 0.999... = 1, tell them they're a liar and that you have the word of Dr. TheBuddha to go on - and that he gives you permission to call them a liar.
I use these things to demonstrate that math is not some higher magic or wizardry, that it's just an expressive language that's best used for expressing the philosophy of logicism. I am considered a heretic amongst other mathematicians - and many of them actually like it but a few of them will get REALLY upset when you tell them that you don't have to obey the rules.
It's a language. It tells lies, truths, stories, and more. It's even devious in how it tells some lies. There's nothing special about it. It's not the language of the universe. It's not a universal language (so far as we know). It's not even universal among all humans. Very few people speak the language of math. Most never get beyond learning arithmetic by rote - and don't even like that.