As a job skill, I suggest learning to code even if that won't be your primary focus. As a tech worker, you'll likely have to communicate with programmers, and you'll be much more effective if you can speak their language.

Basic is very well supported in the Microsoft ecosystem, and is friendly to beginners. If you're interested, check out Microsoft's SmallBasic IDE, which is a great tool for learning to program: http://smallbasic.com/

That seems unfair. Would you expect a music teacher to lecture kids about recording contracts?

It strikes me as unfortunate that a technology teacher doesn't know how to code, because that seems like a basic part of the subject matter. But I wouldn't expect a schoolteacher to be an expert on private sector job hunting.

At 30, you're young enough to do pretty much anything. But I'd caution against tying yourself too closely to a specific software vendor. You may still be in the workplace 30 years from now, so try to cultivate skills that will remain relevant.

It sounds like you're working in the field already. Have you tried applying for private sector jobs?

My dog is an omnivore who engages in corprophagia. I assure you that your diet is a strict subset of his. He's not picky.

Umm... that actually seems like a pretty good definition of vegetarian.

From the study:

How much more precisely do you want them to state it?

I presume you only read the summary?

The actual study found that animal protein promotes mortality, while plant protein does not.

The study is linked up there at the top of the page, in case you want to read it.

You can't legitimately claim a noncoprophagic diet can be as varied as a coprophagic diet can be. Your diet is a strict subset of a coprophage's diet. Full stop.

Where on Earth would they get such a crazy idea? http://www.farmsanctuary.org/w...

Seriously, though, its not correct to suggest that chickens can't survive in the wild. Feral chickens (descended from farm animals) do well in many parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The species seems to be doing OK in the wild. Its far from endangered.

http://www.birdlife.org/datazo...

Those methods don't quite accomplish it. You can unregister your number from Apple's central directory, not from the persistent iMessage cache of individual phones.

After unregistering, new contacts won't send iMessages to your number, but existing contacts will continue to send iMessages for weeks or months, as your number lingers in their phone's iMessage cache.

I unregistered a number back in November. Most of my iPhone contacts see that number as green by now, but a few persistent devices -still- show it as a blue iMessage number.

Signing out doesn't solve the problem, because individual phones cache iMessage numbers for months.

Signing out will prevent new contacts from iMessaging you. But it won't remove your number from the persistent cache in your existing contacts' phones. They will continue to iMessage you, no matter that you've signed out.

Try a group conversation between 2 or more iMessage users, and one former-iMessage user.

No. There is no effective way to "sign your number out," because individual phones cache iMessage numbers for months. If you sign out today, your friends will continue to send "blue bubbles" to your number for months, because your number is in their iMessage cache. It doesn't matter that you've signed out.

Signing out prevents new contacts from iMessaging you, but it has no effect on your existing contacts. They will keep sending "blue bubbles" to your number for months to come. The only effective way to sign out is to get a new phone number.

That's what you would -expect- to happen. But when you port your number to samsung, your friends will actually continue to send blue bubbles to your number. Therein lies the problem: there's no way to unregister a number from iMessage.

Some of your friends may enable the SMS-fallback option, which will forward some of their messages as green bubbles. But group messages will never be forwarded. Your iPhone-using friends will just think you're ignoring them.