Do people think her defense will hold any water? She has been caught on camera doing her social chameleon thing many times (changing her voice), she appears to be a demonstrated narcissist or heavily borderline personality disorder. It's like her defense, her having a child, and everything she's done since being caught has all been a way to avoid responsibility for actually putting people in danger by propagating the false claims and delivering erroneous results to patients who depended on the results to help them with their fucking cancer treatments.
It's very common for people with BPD or NPD to fall into very toxic relationships with each other, it's very common to see NPD males and BPD females in traditional cis relationships (Masterson, Disorders of the Self, 1995). Also, magical thinking. She's competent to stand trial and competent enough to know that what she was doing was wrong, and she should be punished for it.
What makes me sick about her defense is she is trying to use the very real issues that have impacted other women in the #metoo movement (who do not have anywhere close to her privilege) and trying to use it as a shield. The first thing to be aware about her is her father was culpable in the Enron scandal (happened when she was 17), her father did not face significant consequences for his actions, and personality disorders often start in early childhood due to poor parenting. Yes, she's not culpable for Enron or her mental illness, but her evasiveness of responsibility in her defense indicates she is still incredibly delusional and has learned absolutely nothing. This is the type of culture that capitalism breeds.
You're resume is badass. I turned a GIS degree into a data science job based on my knowledge of models, SQL and Python, plus a blog showing some analyses I've done. This is 100% doable, in fact people find it interesting! People telling you to start over are nuts.
Going to some type of GIS analyst position for a year or two, then expanding is a good plan. Worked for me. I am no longer tied to GIS at all but it was a great vehicle for me.
Completely understand you. I'm a senior product designer with the same problem of finding dev resources.
I think first steps for you should be to outline what you need. What medium is your product, which os, capabilities etc, then once thats figured out you should be able to have easily define-able goals for projects and contractors. This will eliminate a lot of back and forth and over charging of services you may not need. Knowing how complex of a back end you'll need, extra api integrations etc will make the process a lot easier and more specific to hire.
best place to find freelancers would be something like upwork.com where you can source exactly what you need.
and if you need a designer to help you out DM me and lets talk, best of luck!
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