rustyfe

Does anyone know of a good service or plan of attack for donating to charity through a REST API?

I'm writing an Amazon Lambda job that will run every week, check how days that week I committed to GitHub, and charge me money if I'm not keeping up with my goal. I could just have it send me angry emails or something, but I think having real money on the line will keep me motivated.

I don't want to have money go to waste or anything, so I think a nice use of it would be to give it to a charity. However, I haven't yet found an easy way to go about this. Has anyone faced a similar challenge and found a good solution? Most everything I've found is about solutions for the charities themselves, which isn't what I'm going for.

Does anyone actually have a job they don't hate? And how did you get it?

I am about to start the last year of my degree in Computer Engineering. A lot of the career advice I see on HN seems to be about avoiding getting scammed by some MBA type working for a destined to fail startup. Which seems like good advice. But my experience in internships with large, generously compensating corporations has largely been one of soul crushing bureaucracy and mind numbing boredom. Is there a sane middle ground? With comfortable living quality and interesting work?

Who has a "good" job, and how did you get it? @patio11 talks about most good jobs not being advertised. But that's kind of a chicken/egg situation for new grads without networks. Especially those of us from cities with less dynamic hiring situations.

School seems like a clear system. I get a syllabus, I know how I'm being scored and get constant feedback. My internship hunt was a total black box. Cast resumes out into the void, and hope you at least get a rejection letter.

I don't want to sound like some entitled millennial, but I've worked hard in school. I've maintained a good GPA at a tough engineering school. Sometimes I juggled full time classes and part time internships. Comparing against the only metric I have (my peers), I'm a good candidate.

I managed to scrounge up a single offer. I accepted this internship by default, and I absolutely hate it. I'm terrified the same thing will happen when it's time for full time career hunting.

This is the first time in my short life I've been more scared than excited for the future. I could use some words of wisdom.