u/Nervous_Falcon3689

Finallly my app published today 14 testing period, i am little confuse why it is showing internet beta after 8 hours has been passed since i publish.

My Display is flickering, and sometimes it turns off, it is broken as you can see in video, at the bottom left, Does anyone know how much it will cost me for new display? or should i use external monitor

my macbook air m2 screen is broken, and i have bought monitor LCD to connect with my Air m2, What is the difference between main display and Mirror for built in display?

So my 4 year old baby boy came up and gave my MacBook a push from behind while it was open on the desk. Nothing dramatic, didn't even fall off the table, but now the screen keeps flickering on and off.

It's not constant, comes and goes, sometimes it's fine for a bit then starts again. Everything else seems to work normally.

Anyone had this happen? Is it likely just a loose display cable or something more serious? Trying to figure out if I should panic or if this is a fixable thing before I take it in. Thanks.

So I need to get this off my chest somewhere, and Reddit feels like the right place because most of you won't judge.

I don't have an IT degree. Never did. What I had was some freelancing experience and a decent grip on networking that I taught myself over the years. That's it.

And I should mention where I'm from, because it matters. I live in a small city Tando Adam. Resources here are very limited. Most people aren't educated enough to even know what half this stuff is. There's no mentor to sit with, no community meetup, nobody down the street doing networking or design or freelancing. Honestly I think I'm the only person in this whole city who learned all of it, networking, freelancing, designing, everything, just from being online. YouTube, forums, trial and error at 2am. That was my university.

When the medical college posted for an IT Manager, I applied kind of expecting nothing. I remember sitting in that interview waiting for the moment someone would ask, so which university, what degree, and I'd have to explain that I have neither.

They hired me anyway. And then reality hit. I wasn't walking into some existing setup I just had to maintain. There was basically nothing. I had to build the whole thing from the ground up.

Over time I set up the network for 850 users. Configured it, secured it, kept it running. Built the college website. Set up the IT labs, 150 PCs, imaged them, networked them, the whole thing. And somewhere in all of that I put together a team of 5 people who now work under me.

Some nights I'd drive home and think how am I even doing this without a piece of paper that says I'm qualified. Impostor syndrome is real and it sat on my chest for months.

But here's what I learned. The degree opens the door. What keeps you in the room is whether you can actually solve the problem in front of you. Nobody in that building cares about my transcript. They care that the WiFi works, the labs run, and the systems don't crash before an exam.

I'm not writing this to brag. I'm writing it because somewhere out there is a self-taught kid who thinks they'll never get a real shot without the paper. You might. Sometimes the experience you built quietly in the background is worth more than you think.

If I can do it, so can you.