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I just got a job with NASA in Mountain View, California at the Ames Research Center. It is an unreal victory in my hellacious job market and field.
But I cannot forget my professional upbringing in Tempe and Phoenix that led me to this day starting from over 25 years ago when I was a junior-high school student learning to run a Linux server with a 90 MHz Pentium with 64 MB RAM in my ASU mentorship. I look forward to the new generations the Valley of the Sun will produce. |
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My 4 year old son seems interested in rockets and space (like a lot of youngsters). What would you say is the best course he could take to someday work at NASA? Now, I'm not even coming close to trying to chart a path for him at all, but I'm just trying to understand how people in general eventually get in a position like you working for a place like NASA or JPL or the like. Do they need to go to elite charter schools and prep schools then elite colleges? Or could he make it there via public schools by simply having a focused interest, work hard on after school activities/clubs, and maybe just be uber smart? |
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Congratulations Sean!
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What is your field?
Congratulations on your new position. |
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There were a few things that won me the job: 13 years of industry experience but most importantly the soft skills. They didn’t interview me on the technical side which is probably why I got it. Being friendly, knowing my field, and knowing how to solve customer problems was essential to me landing this job. Technical people tend to be difficult at best to work with so while you can grow up your kid in a highly intelligent environment, they need to know how to work with others. |
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Somewhere around 1995 when I was in junior high I was granted “root” at a Linux box at that college of education which pretty much accelerated my tech knowledge. From there it became an operations and system administrator field to web programming and that’s what kept my career going until pretty much 2012 when I had to leave Phoenix for better pastures when there were no jobs available. I continued my Web app experience until 2014 when I fell into this field known as “Devops” where development and operations are fused together so I’m supposed to be two people in one. I got fucked over and laid off a bunch of times doing this because this field is notoriously pickyand unstable but whatever. I’m working for NASA! |
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"The end of theatres as we know it" is really chicken little. They're releasing them to their own streaming service to recover untold millions in sunk costs and promote those services. Streaming services will never have the reach of your average theater.
I just wish they demolished Arizona Center and replatted it rather than what we got--I'd take an extended Taylor St rather than the AC hotel there. I have a feeling that will be its future--it just doesn't have any anchors or the square feet to compete with the Biltmore, and a 1000 beds or so if they ever build Palm Court isn't going to turn that block around. |
People still want to go to the movies. Not everyone is a homebody, I've heard plenty of people complaining about how they miss the experience.
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One of the key players to watch is Disney over the next couple of months and what they do. Let’s see, top 5 grossing movies in 2019 where all Marvel/Disney. What do you think would happen if Disney, said for example, let’s only release to Disney Plus? But hey that’s just my opinion. What do I know? I’m sure drive-in movie owners once said the same thing about their business model. |
Not everyone has streaming, wants to pay for it, has a decent device to watch it on (i'll pass watching a movie on my phone I paid money for), or the bandwidth to get it.
Almost anyone not confined to a nursing home has access to a movie theatre, especially the poor and old. Can't say that for streaming. |
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You don't have a TV? I'm really confused. If you don't have a TV then you are in the 2% of American households that do not. Most TVs purchased in the last 5 years have built in support for several streaming services. My TV is probably 10 years old now, but I bought a Firestick for $20 that allows me to access any streaming subscription i purchase. |
https://www.zdnet.com/article/micros...adband-access/
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I do think movie theatres will still exist, but they will be fewer, they will include more amenities and will cost more. You're no longer paying to go watch a new movie, you're paying for an experience that must trump your experience of watching at home, and you must be willing to pay more than ever before to do so.
I could see Amazon buying a major theatre chain after they go bankrupt. Then you could buy say a $10/month Prime Theatre pass to watch unlimited new movies in the theater -- or the alternative is you pay to "rent" them via PrimeTV. I think it's a model that could work. You sell it as an add-on to Prime. AMC did $5.4B in revenue last year and lost $149M. Amazon could sell this service which amounts to $120/year per subscriber. If they get 20M people to subscribe (and BTW you would still have to pay for Prime) then that's $2.4B, add on concessions (but better -- and of course more expensive -- think Whole Foods type quality and prices) then you could easily make money doing this and more important it drives more revenue for all of their other products and subscriptions. |
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163 million people is half the country...
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