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Ah yes, was considering this. But (a) stupid laws with rental properties and (b) aren't tenants a pain in the ass, much bigger than your average tech team lead?

20 years ago when I was choosing my career, I was thinking that it is so amazing that I can build digital things to help people and companies with their day to day lives. Little I …

Behold, we are one step closer to a world where "AI will do the mundane tasks, and the we all are going to engage in creative hobbies such as music creation"... Oh... wait...

For the past years, a decade even, if not more, I have been using Firefox as it was the last bastion of somewhat privacy oriented browser. However with their recent ToS change, I n…

I'm in apple ecosystem, but my friends and family are mixed use, most of them leaning towards Google. I kind of dislike the fact that Google uses pictures to train their models, bu…

I have almost two decades of experience. I'm approaching 40 years old, I have a family. Sure, I might sound stubborn, but I don't have the time to study 3 months for the nuances of…

I don't know how to express it correctly. But yes, sort of. I didn't work in high-load-kafka-like companies, so I'm kind of stuck in my mid level company types that do relatively s…

I know what I want, but I'm afraid that it's not possible to achieve this. I want full autonomy (as much as possible) over my time and the kind of work I do, while still making at …

> Have you gotten any feedback in your current role about why you're stuck? The reasons can vary from the difference in expected behaviors from level to level, no room at level +1,…

I work as a software engineer and make an Ok salary (market salary). However, it seems like I'm stuck at my level. I have no managerial experience, hence I can't get any leadership…

I'm kind of tired of the entire narrative that "US good, everyone else bad", as if only US deserves to hold powerful technology because it will be used for "the greater good", rath…

I did that, about a year ago. It was amazing, easily one of the best times of my life. But it's not a solution, rather a temporary bandaid to stop the bleeding.

I'm trying. The problem, as I mentioned, is that I'm squeezed by the end of the working day, so I barely have time to work on my side project

Thanks. Is freelancing really that different? I keep hearing opinion for both sides ranging from "freelancing is truly different" to "freelancing is corporate/office job in disguis…

The problem is that I like writing code. I truly enjoy it. I just hate doing it for someone else, on someone else's terms, performing someone else's rituals (corporate/code/archite…

I'm a web dev that takes REST data and puts it in the database, or the other way around. It's not rocket science, and I do consider myself a good developer. Of course I learned lon…

TL;DR; - in tech for almost two decades. Past jobs I just keep losing motivation after 6-9 months. Mentally exhausted by the end of the day, so barely have time to work on my own s…

Imagine you are employed by a company and work with tech stack X. You know X, and like X, and worked with X in your previous compan(y|ies). But then there is a change in the compan…

Hey! Thanks for the comment. I've been in SEA and well as Central America. It does open your eyes a lot on how broken the western system is, and makes you appreciate what you have,…

Hey! > Why do you think building a business will fix the problem you feel? It wont. But it will solve one aspect of (lack of) independence -- the soul crashing 9-5 and working with…

OP Here. This blew up fast. I'll provide more context in this comment rather than commenting individually for the sake of not repeating myself. First of all, children and family. I…

Hey! Man here, mid thirties. "Stuck" in a boring, but comfortable, 9-5 in tech. Trying to build a business on the side. Every day feels like prison. I don't care about tech anymore…

So, I'm an experienced dev with more than 10 years of experience. I do mostly web development. Every once in a while, I catch myself obsessing about architecture. It usually goes l…