Curious Georgia

I don't know if it's the same in all countries but in France we receive sometimes very opposite messages. On all social networks you see message from IT recruiters : "We can't find developers, there's a lack in the market" or "We need more women in IT". We hear this for years. I have always been interested in IT, I worked for IT companies most of my career but I wasn't working in technical jobs like developers, I was working in HR.  When I burnout, I chose to completely change my career to follow a reskilling in development. Six months of training, three months of internship. All the people in my class were there for a reskilling too, for a lot of different reasons  and we all heard the same, IT is one of the most recruiting industries. But there is an untold truth.  Not everyone can become a developer On my class maybe half or less have found a job after the reskilling. Why ? Many reasons. Like me they needed a change in their career because the...

If you are using social networks (if you read this article I assume that you do), I recommend you badly to watch the Netflix Documentary called " The social dilemma ". You will hear testimonies of people who worked for Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo or Google. They explain the danger of social media and why they quit. That's scary !  That's why I wanted to write about targeted ads.  These last 2 or 3 years a large part of my spending are due to targeted ads on social media (especially Facebook). I'm not usually a compulsive buyer but those media are so fucking good to show me what I want ! (or I believe I want).  The AI algorithms have evil strategies The daily harassment  They send me a targeted ad, I'm like "oh those shoes are nice ! But I don't need shoes". Then, I continue to scroll and move on. But the next day, they send me again the same ad ! Then I'm like "those shoes are very cool ! But I still don't need shoes". The next day...

This post is a kind of book review. To be honest I'm not a great reader but when I heard about this book I absolutely had to read it. If I had written a book, it probably looked like this one :  "La comédie (in)humaine" from Nicolas Bouzou and Julia De Funes. I have mostly the same vision about companies like them and that's why I'm writing this post. Many people (maybe you too) observed some changes in our organizations. Bad changes. They affect everyone in the companies, employees with seniority and even the new graduate employees. Seniors have the feeling to have lost something, the youngest has the feeling not to find what they expected. I work in the same company for 10 years, so I can tell you I've really seen evolution. When I started this job, I was in a small team : it was nice, we were somewhat close and supportive. We had work to do, some rush times, but we had time to live, time to laugh, time to take a break. It was comfortable and I liked my job...

I'm not an activist but these last years I became more and more concerned about our planet. As a regular citizen, I often feel powerless : I sort my waste when possible, I try to reduce my waste... But it doesn't feel enough. I'm just a drop in the ocean. Do I really make a difference ?  Fortunately, some people are wonderful and have great ideas to remind me there's still some hope for humanity. So many things can be recycled or upcycled, things I would have never imagined. There are so many amazing initiatives, I think they deserve to be supported. DIY : Recycle your own plastic I don't remember how I heard about this community : Precious Plastic .  There's a huge problem with plastic recycling, to know more you can see the last episode of the Broken Documentary on Netflix. Also, a  report from French Senate just came up last month. We consume a lot more plastic than we can really recycle. Precious Plastic wants to create local recycling communities, where a...

I like to test new things, different or original things. Two years ago, I started to receive a lot of ads about smart food.  What is "smart food" ? Smart food is like a compact and practical meal which brings you all nutriments you need.  When I saw those ads, my first reaction was something like : "What the fuck is that ? Can you really eat some powder food and brick snack ?" Then I read some critics on social networks and finally my curiosity was triggered.  I ordered a discovery package on "Feed" website (a french brand). I usually try something before criticize and say "this is shit".  So, I have waited my little box. Here it is. There were 3 bottles of powder (flavour : tomato, vegetables, chocolate) and 2 bars (raspberry and chocolate). I started with tomatoes bottle, I mixed the content with hot water, you have to shake it to avoid lumps and then it's ready to drink. The taste is really not bad, but I didn't succeed to finish the b...

Love has always been a problem and an existencial question for me. Everybody talk about love, movies and tv-shows always show you love stories, friends always tell me “I think i'm in love”. However, I feel like i don’t understand this feeling like others. I mean, they seem so happy, so excited, like they have won 3 millions at the lotery last night. When she is in love, my best friend acts a little like the woman on this gif and she makes words with random letters like she had invented a new language. Do you do that too ? I don’t think I do. But it’s very funny to see. A part of me is a little jealous. This euphoriant drug seems amazing. In my part, i feel some kind of excitment at the start of a new relationship but... It never lasts very long. And that’s a real problem because my partners all ended to feel not loved enough : “You don’t like my cuddles. You don’t want to have sex with me etc...”. I don’t blame them, but I can’t blame myself either for being me. It’s hard for me, b...

  I have to warn you first, i’m a fangirl. Many friends told me they didn’t like Bojack Horseman and dropped it. I answered “to each his own”, but inside I think “oh my god this guy sucks so hard ! Is he really my friend ?! ” . * Laughing *  I understand that BJH is a really dark and cynical TV show and not everybody can like that type of humour. But I never found a TV show so human (and with human-animals ). Emotions, experiences are so real and relevant to me that I wondered how Raphael Bob- Waksberg could write all this. After the first season, I told myself, “ if I met him in real life, we probably understood each other so much that I could fall in love with him”. That’s the first time I reacted like that after watching a TV- show . It was like someone had understood all my deepest and darkest feelings : “Really, I ’m not the only one to feel this way ? ”. When I started to watch BJH I was in a moment in my life very tough and dark. I think it’s pro...