2010-08-31: Bonus advice — keep waiting!
Just when I thought that waiting for something good to happen without doing anything about it won’t cut it anymore, I heard the good news from the Rakudo community: they released an early adopter distribution of Perl 6.
The language has grown so much more elegant with version 6, and now we can actually use it in a meaningful way. This may just keep me going through September!
If you can vote here, you may not yet have a clear opinion on the future of our unemployment insurance. Well, you should: here’s some (German) reading material.
Also, you may enjoy reading about people who tried to go a bit farther this summer: Michael, Samuel.