Buck the fuck up, dude. Like nobody else in the world has been fired before. Seriously, it's the fiber of someone is made not by what they are, but what they do when adverse conditions occur to them. You have a wife (and kids?) to support, provide for, and be capable of taking a situation like this and getting on with it. This world is unforgiving. Google is not the only game in town and if you have talent, you will find another job. Also, finish your degree so you so you can at least show you've moved past this part of your life with conviction. Make things whole, not rip them apart.
Now if Google would just reverse their blocking of applications that allow us to limit certain what apps have access to on my phone for privacy concerns, then I'd be happy. Might switch over to a Blackphone 2 just for this reason alone.
That's sort of laughable, considering the only major legislation passed since the WWW became legit has been Net Neutrality. As for Facebook's Zuckerberg said famously - privacy is dead.
> That's sort of laughable, considering the only major legislation passed since the WWW became legit has been Net Neutrality.
This is false in two ways:
(1) Net neutrality has never been passed as legislation,
(2) Lots of other legislation has been passed (some later struck down as unconstitutional, other that have stuck) directed toward online life since the web became commonly used on topics other than net neutrality (including some on privacy -- both for and against) -- examples include COPA, CIPA, COPPA, DMCA, USA PATRIOT, and USA FREEDOM, among others.
It's a pretty simple principle between the happy curve and where it intersects with the financial stability curve. However, the opposite can be very true as well. Namely, poverty as it plays out on the social ills that we in the United States have - most notable, are minorities and the lack / motivation of the government to cure this problem. I believe there is some paradigm where happy can be achieved if the work/happy ratio is subsidized through social programs lowering the happy curve (or at least tolerance) because of the work requirements to achieve the financial base to maintain that curve. It's an interesting problem, but overwhelming it causes desperation and by a minor extension drug / alcohol abuse / crime syndication, and violence (domestic abuse and gun deaths in particular). The upward mobility is one thing, but an opposite paradigm is also a very interesting dynamic with respect to if money can or cannot by happiness. However, your example of "owning your own company" is also a self-confidence motivator that is a game changer. :) That's why we need a minority middle class to fix poverty, IMHO.
