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Originally from Pakistan, grew up in Middle East. Of course, my parents wanted me to be a doctor. As a software engineer, I have disappointed them for a life. It doesn’t bother me …

Try Toptal. I applied there for practice and as a backup. It seems they have plenty of projects. Also SaaS like Deel make it easy for employers to hire anyone around the world. The…

Yes, it is amazing. They say Heart Rate Variability is pretty good indicator of stress. My HRV graph for last 6 months clearly shows when I made decision to change job and when I g…

Yeah, with recent economic developments, I am a little worried but stock of my previous company is also down. I am hearing rumors of layoffs there. So I could still be laid off eve…

I agree in principle but where I worked a lot of it was just for show. We had a lot of security people who only knew how to generate pdfs. They were very hard to work with. Or some…

True, I have taken break from LeetCode but not for too long. I will probably restart it in couple of weeks. Going forward, I always want to be interview ready.

Sort of, yes. We have signed the contract and should be closing in the fall :) The house is a bit more expensive than I would like but we can afford it. And we could have afford it…

Thank you and yes we are working on it. BTW I thought about divorce but never said that word to my wife. Those thoughts luckily were very brief.

Thanks, we are. But I highly doubt there are many people who can prevent their internal mental state from affecting their relationships. I was not able to see her point of view whe…

I posted this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709273 I thought I hated programming and was ready to quit or even divorce my wife. I was not able to have a …

> When you yell at your significant other after the work day is done. This is really important. We were fighting over nothing. Switching jobs is cheaper than couples counseling or …

For me it was lack of control that was causing burn out. Exercise definitely improved my mood but it was only for couple of hours. Once I decided that I will switch job, I was 1000…

Pretty funny, I was going to order a balance board that I had been eyeing for a bit. Went to Amazon but it was not loading the page correctly, so I went to company's website to loo…

5 months ago, I was depressed about my work and feeling like a failure. Both in career and life. I thought I was going through midlife crisis. And my inability to make FAANG money …

I agree especially with kids. I got kids, I close shop at 4pm. I get kids, go to park, pool, etc. Bring sandwiches or pick up junk food. One kid is baby, so usually drop him at hom…

Actually, in certain situations, yes. My running shorts have pockets that barely fit iPhone mini. Yes, I know there are other accessories that I can buy to fit giant phones in but …

I think this depends on persons internal happiness. Happy people feel happier and sad people get sadder. This is based on my own experiences. In my 20s, I was as happy as one can b…

Sadly, there not many options if you want comfortable life and do good at the same time. My fiends and I really wanted to do good when starting our careers and looked at many non-p…

It is also because devops is shoved down devs throats while claiming that it is easier and better. So now many of developers don’t want to spend time rewriting their code for somet…

While I am not as successful but I live comfortable life and I feel same way as you. A few weeks ago, I was feeling really low and asked for similar advice. It really helped writin…

GP seems to exhibit lack of social and cultural awareness. Not all but many people on spectrum also lack social and cultural awareness. They have more in common with autistic peopl…

Same here, I personally can move anywhere in the world. But restriction come from wife.

Yeah I am Texas. Before 2021, one could buy a beautiful home with a pool in a top rated school districts for $450K easily. Now same homes are going for $650K+. I personally am not …