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diff --git a/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md b/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md index 1d68d8a..77c5db2 100644 --- a/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md +++ b/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00 tags: ['computing'] draft: false --- -Over the past year, I've been trying to break into teaching as a career since there's no money in free software. So I earned a [TEFL certification](https://www.tefl.org/en-us/tefl-certification) and was recently offered an English teaching job at a highly-respected educational institution in Mexico, where I live. +Over the past year, I've been trying to break into teaching as a career since there's no money in free software. So I earned a [TEFL certification](https://www.tefl.org/en-us/tefl-certification/) and was recently offered an English teaching job at a highly-respected educational institution in Mexico, where I live. It came as a surprise because this type of job normally wouldn't be offered to an "unqualified" person like myself. In fact, I'm pretty sure it wasn't even legal for me to occupy the position given how "unqualified" I am, but there was a desperate need to fill it and, in this country, corruption is the rule. @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Before I'd even discovered the teaching opportunity, I'd already made the rounds I'd need a real mobile phone to get the bank app since my computers lack the CPU instructions to spin up Android VMs. I certainly wasn't going to spend money on a closed hardware computer or mobile phone, so a family member gave me their old Android device. Thanks to planned obsolescence, I could not upgrade the system past Android 8.1, meaning it probably contained unpatched security vulnerabilities. I was unable to install a custom degoogled rom either. -Thus the phone had all the standard spyware one would expect from an off-the-shelf Android device, including a manufacturer backdoor. I removed as much of it as I could using the [Universal Android Debloater](https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater), but it was still an outdated Googled Android rom. There was no real way to make it private or secure. This on top of [the other reasons I don't want a smartphone](/2021/12/26/why-i-dont-have-a-smartphone "Why I Don't Have a Smartphone") was making me progressively more agitated about the entire situation. +Thus the phone had all the standard spyware one would expect from an off-the-shelf Android device, including a manufacturer backdoor. I removed as much of it as I could using the [Universal Android Debloater](https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater), but it was still an outdated Googled Android rom. There was no real way to make it private or secure. This on top of [the other reasons I don't want a smartphone](/2021/12/26/why-i-dont-have-a-smartphone/ "Why I Don't Have a Smartphone") was making me progressively more agitated about the entire situation. Then I went to the store and gave money to the Mexican telecommunications monopoly Telmex in exchange for a SIM card. After putting it in the phone, I knew it would allow my location to be constantly tracked by the telecom, at least while I was at work and when I didn't remember to put the phone in airplane mode. |