I'm not an expert on astrology, but I see many cultures believe in it. Maybe there is a method to their madness that we don't understand now that you mention it.
I know for TA, you have to look at the patterns and they are visible in the data. The people who are against are the ones who can't figure it out.
Hey could you expand on the part of contract work on the side? You mean in tech right alongside your full time job? How can one pull that off if both jobs are 9-5?
Currently a PM (although furloughed unfortunately), so the Coursera course has helped me have greater breadth/understanding and so many more tools to bring back to the office if/when business picks up. If my role is cut, I'll jump into the PM job search more actively and have been preparing for that possibility too.
In my previous role I was a Software Engineer, and made some great contacts that have some DevOps consulting opportunities. I'd like to take on some of this work and the AWS CSA Associate cert will definitely help. I'm about halfway through Linux Academy training and it has already been invaluable for my overall systems architecture and design thinking.
If you have any other thoughts/advice/questions, happy to chat more! Contact info is in my bio
TLDR: Currently a furloughed PM (Coursera) and have some cloud consulting opportunities (AWS CSA Associate cert)
there are prepper sites, and if you look in the "shadows" you may find a lot of specialized literature that aught to be free for humanity.
the prepper culture is really something elso tho, there is a local group that is just about the one group that i want to have as far away from me as possible.
have a look around here for example that ought to be a good starting point: