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This made me laugh out loud. You're fearless!

Nope, south east US. Trying to be vague here for privacy.

The offer was 20k more than my base salary already. Asking for even more seemed crazy to me. I have controversial opinions on how much money developers make already, probably stemm…

How Software Companies Die - Orson Scott Card https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/jokepg/joke_19970213_01.txt

Did you read the post? I LOVE programming. I HATE programming for someone else as a career. For fucks sake.

> The author is clearly an idiot. Wow. I didn't realize Hacker News folks were like redditors. The 65k comes from the fact that I had to pay tuition and living expenses. My family …

I don't understand why this discussion is about entitlement. I thought this was the american dream? You work hard, you make something of yourself. Things go your way. Things are go…

I didn't know if I'd like testing or not. But I thought I would try something new. Comparing my daily work with the coders around me, I still think I'd pick testing because they li…

> Just knowing that you can quit, if you're not happy, changes how you interact with your employer. I think if I KNEW this, I'd have a significantly different perspective on things…

At my last company I had the opportunity to write some code to fetch data from an api and display messages on 15 Daktronics signs for a bus transit station. That was cool and prett…

Awesome story friend. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

Excellent.

I often feel like I'm surrounded by programmers who just come to work every day, write as much good enough code that they can, and then go home. They seem really happy. I want to b…

Thanks for the advice. My first job was full stack Java backend (SpringMVC) and jQuery hell front end. Second was full stack, Python backend, AngularJS front end. My new job is wri…

I don't want more money. I want to be happy.

Some of those people make just as much money as I do once you factor in the fact that they don't pay a huge chunk of it to student loans. Step-father-in-law is a truck driver, make…

Indeed it is. Haven't I accrued debt, worked hard, and earned the right to be in a job I should be happy at? I deserve that. So do you and so does every body else.

They're all making glorified crud apps, stuff that I could make solo. I'm not excited by it.

This is my third try at improving my situation, each time the money has increased and is helping me pay that debt off. So I'm getting closer on that front, but I don't want the mon…

I picked all three. The first was a medium sized startup (90 employees, mostly sales, only 5 devs). The second was a small startup (15 employees, 5 devs). My current job is a huge …

Third. I've only been at it for 6 years now. I'm 27. I'll correct the title for you to be "Older, Tired, and Bitter"