@BurnoutDV Thank you for the link.

Article and comments are golden. Will be shared further.

Or you opened LinkedIn dot com ...

@athlon This site mentions non-immigrant (i.e. tourist) visas.

I kind of get it, from the perspective of US national security, that's useful info. On the other hand, it's pretty darn invasive "wtf" question....

http://immigrationgirl.com/new-soci...

BTW, that's new question on US visa application... 🤔

@ArcaneEye In fact, I still am and it's not that bad.

After persistence of these arrays in memory was resolved so app doesn't crash randomly, there was a grousome task of fixing all of the magic number references everywhere and making them be in sync with queries.

App depended on things like "show map at (value[13], value[14]) which worked most of the time, but sometimes crashed when a string value came in for that field, or it worked incorrectly when a number of a different kind was there instead of lat or long.

Those were really unpleasant 2 months, however app became stable enough to ensure further biz financing, at which point we discarded all of it and rewrote the whole damn thing from scratch.

We usually get a nice pack of JIRA tickets, in one of 2 available priority levels: "not assigned yet" and "blocking".

Re programming: I have periods where I'm like WTF is that it, or when my impostor syndrome flares, but that's always up and down roller coaster. It passes

I help myself with video tutorials on stuff that's unrelated to my daily job. So I made nice Electron JS app, 3D engine in OpenGL, tinkered with Raspberry Pi (a lot of free books there), cryptotrading bot in Python. If you're willing to spend few bucks, there are tons of courses on Stackskills and others, go for those with most/best reviews. I'm taking one right now in Swift - one lesson a day.

The point with YouTube series/projects and video courses is that they are small enough to be FINISHABLE, so you do have sense of accomplishment at the end. And you won't feel "alone", as you do hear and see someone working with you. Plus you can learn something useful.

For general loneliness issues, I'd spend some time and money talking to someone whose job is to listen, and who has heard a lot. Usually it's money well spent.

Good Luck!

Love how appropriately they named the app: EXPERIENCE 😔

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