Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello,[a] is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity. Othello is widely considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest works and is usually classified among his major tragedies alongside Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet. Unpublished in the author’s life, the play survives in one quarto edition from 1622 and in the First Folio.
Othello has been one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, both among playgoers and literary critics, since its first performance, spawning numerous stage, screen, and operatic adaptations. Among actors, the roles of Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia (Iago’s wife) are regarded as highly demanding and desirable. Critical attention has focused on the nature of the play’s tragedy, its unusual mechanics, its treatment of race, and on the motivations of Iago and his relationship to Othello. Originally performed by white actors in dark makeup, the role of Othello began to be played by black actors in the 19th century.
Shakespeare’s major source for the play was a novella by Cinthio, the plot of which Shakespeare borrowed and reworked substantially. Though not among Shakespeare’s longest plays, it contains two of his four longest roles in Othello and Iago.
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When looking at possible skills to learn, does anyone else find themselves unable to shake off the sense there’s no point because they won’t ever be a good [whatever skill I’m looking at], and won’t be picked by an employer? Do I want to learn coding? In college I was surrounded by many ambitious people and I was trying to tread water when I was trying to learn coding. So much so that coding made fucking calculus look easy by comparison as if my brain is psychically locked from learning anything that might get me employed. I’m great at useless, irrelevant stuff.
So even if I do struggle through to learn coding, I’m not “better” than my peers, and there are a LOT of peers so any employer would rather have them over me. Yes, I understand that a lot of the job market is nakedly nepotism and luck, but then even if I make a coding friend, then there is someone more well-connected than me and I am locked out of the job market.
IDK, what do the rest of you do when you are skeptical of starting something you’re convinced will only end in failure and thanks to the way everything’s set up, failure is a death sentence. I’m not going to go and get myself in god knows how much debt if I’m not going to be hired anyway.
TL;DR: How do the rest of y’all deal with two things: the presumption of failure for any reason, and resisting self-pity?
So what is going on here is you lack specific goals. If I want to learn to code when do I know I am half way there there? If I decide I want to learn how to back end code so can make rom remixes of classic games then I haverasurable goals and projects ao I know if i am doing well or not.
I fimd it helps me to take a long view, that failure is a necessary ingredient of building skills. When I first learned sewing, I spent two weeks in an anxiety spiral just trying to figure out how to thread the fucking machine. Now I’m making clothes for myself. I had to fuck up to get better. I’m working on a shirt right now, and I have to unstitch an entire panel because I fucking sewed it on backwards, real bonehead shit. Won’t stop me from learning how to embroider eventually
I think tolerating or pushing past failure, having compassion for yourself and letting the self-hate slide off your back is a skill in itself, one that increases the speed at which you learn all other skills. If I hadn’t forced myself to stop being so hard on me, i don’t think i would have been able to get sober, let alone learn to make the kind of long-ass shirts I like.
I learn some skills because I want to, no chance of monetization anyway. Violin, dancing. The little OpenGL I know is because I wanted to try it, I had no aspirations or pretensions of getting paid for it. I just wanted to make a cube that spins lol
There’s a lot of soft skills that goes in to who gets hired or fired. If you’ve ever worked with an abrasive genius you’ll know why that sucks and why even someone strictly “better” at coding, say, isnt always going to get a job. Ultimately you have to share an office or at least talk to your coworkers or even clients at least 40 hours a week. If you can go to work not high or hungover, if you actually show up on time, and youre easy to be around and talk to your coworker, youre like 80% of the way there - a lot can be taught. I guess, right now, things are more dire but thats just the cyclical economy. Like theres just more competition for entry level jobs. Still, if you learn to schmooze and can pretend to seem confident and humble, you will have a better chance
You really should discard the idea that you have to be the best ever to get hired. HR people aren’t that good at assessing the skills of applicants, and ultimately if you’re lucky enough that a position that’s actually hiring doesn’t get taken directly by someone with connections, all that’s holding you back is looking like you’re a good fit for the job.
If you dont try to learn any skill because you think you won’t be the best at it, then you’ll end up never learning anything. Capitalism makes it so that we are always in competition with each other, and that penetrates into our consciousness. I think part of it is deprogramming yourself from this competition mindset and focusing on yourself rather than comparing yourself to others.
I think setting long term and short term goals also might help
I try to engage my
tbh which beforehand was normally just 
but really if I approach anything with curiosity then it helps.
For HVAC I started a job training thing that got me zero jobs tbh even with my 608 universal since then been doing online stuff to learn how to diagnose stuff and use the tools needed through simulations. I need to update my resume soon and will after I try some IRL tests for certs. I guess I stop myself from giving up because what else can I do really.