"...she is a true inspiration."
wow, what a stellar gift, and something that you can throw your appreciation for her into.
do you have a finished picture of the "we can do it" piece you can share?
haha, i remember soldering headphone wires for the first time and ending up with a crazy lumpy Boulder of solder and burnt wires by the end.
to which, of course, I shrugged and rolled electrical tape around and accepted.
Whoa! That is a legitimately fascinating video, thanks again for sharing. "We Can Do It" is such a great image too.
Youtube shorts might net you a little extra revenue if you have a bunch of these clips, btw, if you aren't way ahead of me, haha, i just learned about shorts.
How long did it take you to develop such a steady hand for the solder?
So there's no glue and the metal doesn't fuse into the glass, but the overhang of the solder once it's cooled acts as a picture frame for each shard and then a complete frame for the whole piece? That's amazing.
And you definitely did great work on the smooth part of the soldering, all of those front-facing lines look very even and smooth.
Ha, easy to bump projects, i got all excited about these t-shirt designs but after four designs i started up a podcast and got super distracted throwing myself into the episodes. It's great to feel that inspiration though when you like a project so much you can be reasonably assured it'll develop into something you're proud of.
Well, I'm excited to see the new piece, thanks for sharing all this information with me, I would have no idea how something like this worked otherwise.
Are there special glass paints to use for the colors?
oh wow and it's a time-lapse, you legend!
that definitely gives me a better idea of how the process goes, thanks a lot for sharing, that was very cool to see.
so that's the copper foil at the end and then do you use a blow torch or something to melt all the pieces together?
that must be so much fun for you also, do you have a lot of projects going on at the same time or do you tend to focus on one at a time?
These are the plunderers: how private equity runs and wrecks America by Gretchen Morgenstern.
"This is not entirely true."
I'll check.
"Malaysia...English teaching industry...Most countries...standards...VIetnam requires...employ illegally...risk...very high"
yea, solid disclaimer, most of that looks less than entirely true. Honestly, a lot of that is barely half true.
real quick: ESL is still booming in April 2025 with thousands of currently available ESL positions, pay rates are higher than ever, outpacing inflation significantly, the requirements are about the same as they were 15 years ago; native english fluency, college degree or TEFL certificate sometimes required based on the position and location for 25 hours of teaching a week, not including the breaktimes each class.
Most countries certainly do not have enough of an english speaking population to have affected the ESL market, hence the thousands of currently available ESL postings and dozens of platforms for teaching online.
Vietnam does not require "TESL diplomas" to teach English.
yes, because it is fun, and we don't have to make it different just to be different.
Thank you, it was hide read posts.
Haha, OH MY GOSH thank you I've been trying to figure it out for...way too long.
thank you so much.
aside from being a native English speaker, you don't need any.
The school will provide the curriculum, training, you'll get to shadow a teacher for a few days and you'll have an assistant in class to wrangle the students, so all you have to do is speak English in a native accent for 20 minutes at a time.
you can also watch any number of YouTube videos to learn what teaching English is like, or you can choose from hundreds of other remote jobs If you don't want to teach.
as long as you make a few hundred a month, you can survive comfortably in Southeast Asia.
hostels are $100 a month, 200 a month for food is enough.
If you're making 500 usd a month, you can get a private place for $250 or $300, and keep the same food budget.
I suggest going to Southeast Asia instead. tickets are a couple hundred, everybody is really cool about genders and pretty much everything else there, everything is cheap, you can live indefinitely on tourist visas and if you need money you can always teach English.
"...that molten glass was involved..."
yeaj, the process you actually go through is even more impressive than the already incredibly difficult fantasia-sequence molten glass process I imagined, haha!
creating a 40 piece picture frame or 60 piece or whatever it is, jeez, that is very cool, and to get it so smooth.
the podcast is called "bit of a rambler", it's everywhere podcasts are, main page here: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bit-of-a-rambler--6571124
the first two episodes are out and new eps will be coming out every Wednesday for a long time to come, travel stories and information.
those paints came out great, very vibrant colors, and the car polish you added is such a smart idea, they'll probably look that way forever.
the nail polish in UV lamp are another good idea, what's on hand is the way to go, I ended up using strips of old pool noodles lying around as sound insulation for the office I record the podcast in just the other day.
I'll be on the lookout for whatever you post here next. or I'll remember you from Lemmy when your YT shorts blow up!