aspergers and vaping.

[Atchafalaya]

I would say you are ADD like myself -- our weirdness is similar --- yes the Ritalin is working absolute wonders for me -- I had always "wrongly" assumed that since I am an anxiety ridden person and quite nervous that the Ritalin would compound my anxiety problems -- but it was exactly the opposite -- Yes, it seems to speed my body up a bit but at the same time it helps me lots mentally.

ummm - I don't know which duty station you are referring to but for basic training and AIT training I was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia .... I was then doing duty in the National Guard in the State of Idaho -- trained with lots of folks from Fort Hood though.

Hmmm. I'll give that a try then. It would be great to be able to focus on one thing at a time.
I was asking about Ft Hood because that's where I'm at. I work with a lot of military. Mostly Army

 

[Atchafalaya]

that's my other Brother

well, I also did advanced engineering studies in electronics as well -- spent lots of years fiddling with electronics components and circuits for sure.

Cool!!!! I dabbled in robotics but not advanced engineering. I'm impressed! Ohm's law. Fun stuff. lol
Well, I'm done with my project except for setting up security. I didn't realize it was for an outside agency. What a freakin' pain.....grrrrrr.....arrrrrrrr.....grrrrrrr.
Chow for now. Take care of that hand.

 

[AXIOM_1]

Yea, there was a guy in one of my classes, that had one of those 'bolts' hit his thumb. Permanent scare. I hated working on those. I was the only woman in that class and the guys would come up behind me and scream "ZAP!" because they all knew how afraid I was of that high voltage.

idiotic males

 

[MaenadMoogle]

@MaenadMoogle --I love the caffeine LOL! I have that one saved in my slide show screensaver.
Restlessness is really hard to deal with. For me, it's the most frequent symptom of PD. Ropinirole kept me from going crazy. When it works. But it probably wouldn't work in your case.

Drug side effects are a real puzzle once you have a few of them running around in you system. You can also face difficult choices.

I take levetiracetam and lamotrigine for seizures. They eventually gave me manic episodes. Still do, but less frequently now. But Parkinson's also causes depression. It was getting debilitating, so they started me on several AD's before finally settling on citalopram, which works well with few side effects.

Except that it interacts with the lamotrigine to make the manic episodes worse. During one of these earlier this year, I decided that I should discontinue the citalopram. Big mistake. Got severely depressed. Had huge headaches getting back on it.

And more restless, which was actually the Parkinson's getting worse. So now I'm on sinemet and ropinirole, and it's just getting hard to sort out which side effects are caused by what.

Lots of info about me to tell you that I feel for your trials in getting the meds right.

Take care.

phew. That's. A. Lot.

The good news is that I'm not feeling so depressed anymore. The bad news is that I still feel like I'm about to jump out of my skin and I can't stop tapping my foot.

I guess I'll know in a few weeks if this is a bad idea or not. But I was really hoping to get my anxiety under control before winter hits around here. My anxiety last year made driving so bad I called off work a few times because of small amounts of snow and I'd rather not have to do that again.

 

[AXIOM_1]

Cool!!!! I dabbled in robotics but not advanced engineering. I'm impressed! Ohm's law. Fun stuff. lol
Well, I'm done with my project except for setting up security. I didn't realize it was for an outside agency. What a freakin' pain.....grrrrrr.....arrrrrrrr.....grrrrrrr.
Chow for now. Take care of that hand.

I will take care of it --- I am glad you completed on time -- I knew you would because you are very smart and have lots of determination (I can tell).

 

[AXIOM_1]

double post ackkk

 

[MaenadMoogle]

In the mean time, I'm not sure if anybody could help, but I'm interested in a career change. I've said before that I have a BA in english and I'm interested in switching over to something more tech based. I feel like I'd be good at programing, and I just did codecamy's program on SQL, to see if I liked it or not (I did!) but I'm not really sure where to go from here.

Because I already have a BA I won't get funding for another. So I think my best bet would probably be to take a few classes at a community college and then see about getting a masters?

But that's even MORE student loans that I'd have to take out so...

I'm not sure.

 

[AXIOM_1]

In the mean time, I'm not sure if anybody could help, but I'm interested in a career change. I've said before that I have a BA in english and I'm interested in switching over to something more tech based. I feel like I'd be good at programing, and I just did codecamy's program on SQL, to see if I liked it or not (I did!) but I'm not really sure where to go from here.

Because I already have a BA I won't get funding for another. So I think my best bet would probably be to take a few classes at a community college and then see about getting a masters?

But that's even MORE student loans that I'd have to take out so...

I'm not sure.

what type of area in programming would you like to do? You first have to decide upon what type of programming area you want to be involved in before deciding upon a language(s) --- Do you want to do web programming for web sites? Do you want to do account programming? Do you want to do desktop programming and make applications for PC's? Database programming?

 

[MaenadMoogle]

See, that's a problem. I have no idea at all.

 

[MaenadMoogle]

I liked SQL, and I like the idea of organizing and digging through information?

I'm a researcher at heart. I like reading, I like learning things, I like knowing things, and I like organizing things into tiny little boxes.

So that would lend itself to database work?

 

[MaenadMoogle]

I also don't like people. So anything that keeps me away from the most human beings would be great.

 

[AXIOM_1]

See, that's a problem. I have no idea at all.

well, that is a problem

Just imagine yourself sitting at a PC (which you are doing now) --- does the idea of creating desktop applications such as games, text editors, or basically any type of program that your mind can dream up, appeal to you? If so then you would like several languages I can point you towards. If on the other hand, you desire to build and design complex web sites, then I can also point you in the right direction... If you are interested in Database programming then talking to @Atchafalaya would work saince she specializes in databases. I think @NoFumus is learning database stuff too.

The only database programming I ever do is when designing a web site --- any modern web site needs to communicate with a back end database which stores all of the data for the web site....

Try to imagine what you would like doing. Then I can point you in the right direction.

 

[AXIOM_1]

I liked SQL, and I like the idea of organizing and digging through information?

I'm a researcher at heart. I like reading, I like learning things, I like knowing things, and I like organizing things into tiny little boxes.

So that would lend itself to database work?

If you like doing research type stuff with facts and figures, then yes database programming has it's perks... However, you need to know that with database programming you are basically storing data into a database and then fetching it back out at some future time.... You cannot do much in the way of creativity via databases or developing something that is unique and helps solve theoretical and thorny problems. You would desire a language that allows you to develop things that have never been developed before. Is this what you are driving at?

 

[MaenadMoogle]

I'm not a very. . . creative person. . . So, I think I'd be okay with just putting information in and pulling it out later. . . haha

 

[AXIOM_1]

I'm not a very. . . creative person. . . So, I think I'd be okay with just putting information in and pulling it out later. . . haha

well, now we are getting somewhere

Sounds to me like database programming is for you then---- There are many spinoffs of the original SQL plus there are also languages such as "R" and others that are geared towards database type programming. @Atchafalaya or @NoFumus would be more knowledgeable in these areas than I am ---- I do mostly desktop applications and from time to time I build a web site or two. I know lots of languages but most of them are geared towards either web work or creating applications for PC's and Unix boxes.

 

[MaenadMoogle]

I think I'd like creating things too, but I wouldn't be able to come up with the ideas on my own. If somebody was like "this app. I want it to do this" I think that would be fun.

O.O


So indecisive.

 

[Atchafalaya]

I liked SQL, and I like the idea of organizing and digging through information?

I'm a researcher at heart. I like reading, I like learning things, I like knowing things, and I like organizing things into tiny little boxes.

So that would lend itself to database work?

Yes! Do it. Sounds right up your alley.

 

[Atchafalaya]

I think I'd like creating things too, but I wouldn't be able to come up with the ideas on my own. If somebody was like "this app. I want it to do this" I think that would be fun.

O.O


So indecisive.

Databases are straightforward. People tell you the information they need. You write the queries to get that for them.

 

[AXIOM_1]

I think I'd like creating things too, but I wouldn't be able to come up with the ideas on my own. If somebody was like "this app. I want it to do this" I think that would be fun.

O.O


So indecisive.

Well, what you could do is learn a couple of different languages and this would give you a better feel for the aspects of those languages and their capabilities. Since you majored in Language (English) there is a language that was developed by a linguist and so the language is lots different than most languages. Yes, I am referring to the language of Perl --- It has been used in for most any type of application and area out there. It was even used on the human genome project and well as the space craft in outer space --- I like it because I like very cryptic as well as very powerful languages that allow me to do lots of stuff if I so desire --- Lots of languages are fairly restrictive and you can only do just so many things --- but Perl allows you to do lots of things including database work. Lots of folks don't like Perl because it is so cryptic and foreign looking -- I like it because it keeps newbies from understanding my code

Most programming languages allow you to interface with various types of databases and so you can do database programming via most languages out there -- So, if you learn one of those larger languages then you can do database programming as well as other types of programming if you so desire.

 

[MaenadMoogle]

So the part I'm confused about is what is this job. I did the SQL thing on codecamy and it was how to create the databases and then how to pull information from them. But what is the use of this in the business world? I'm a little confused about what companies use this sort of database and need people to pull the information from them?