Dropping embedded systems / switching to services backend dev
Why didn't programming for embedded systems work for you?
Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
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Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#12I quit my job to read and hack or a project and random shit. I’ve gotten so much more knowledgeable and skilled. I’m also getting much better job offers than I used to.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#13I wish I could say I had a plan that lead me down my career path. I made one dumb random decision after another, and somehow they all got me where I am today. The best decision was way back in 1999 I started a blog because I loved Slashdot. I used that to learn how to program, and that has lead to every job I've had since. So my long winding dumb successful career path is all thanks to me wanting to be like cmdrtaco!…
Similar here. To this day I have no idea what I'm doing or how I got here. I made fan sites for various stupid shows, while selling white goods, and apparently they were good enough to get invited to a career in web dev. Then I took lead on projects because our project manager didn't know what "html codes" are, so they sent me off to do PM courses and suddenly I'm an IT PM.
I still feel like I should be selling fridges, but they keep getting good performance reviews, so I'll take it. Sure pays better than selling fridges.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#14Not really a decision, but having a mental breakdown after multiple failed startups and unsavory corporate jobs made me re-evaluate my life and drive me towards achieving something meaningful I would be proud of.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#15Both the best and the worst decision I made: starting grad school in 1993 instead of moving to the Valley and getting a programming job.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#16Both the best and the worst decision I made: starting grad school in 1993 instead of moving to the Valley and getting a programming job.
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Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#17To leave the academic track and start working full time on a mobile app at the end of my Masters. Nearly everything notable that's come my way career-wise stemmed from people noticing that little app that I spent less than 6 months working on.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#18Realizing I was under appreciated and acting on it.
Also realizing family and enjoying life are often more important than the next step in my career.
Re: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
#19In 2013 I was at a crossroads.
I was an active duty Air Force intelligence officer and I had been building a mobile augmented reality product as a side project. This was before AR really took off.
I had a choice to make: Be a professional spy for the government or do what I wanted to do since I was a kid and build computer vision/AI products, with the goal of doing AI for the rest of my life.
This was right as Neural Nets were exploding in vision and I had been focused on geometrical computer vision and causal bayesian networks.
So I decided to leave the military and start something that was super unproven without a PhD in CS/ML etc...
Now my whole life now is developing Computer Vision products and doing commercial research around vision, with an unfinished MS in ML systems. I realized today that I reached one of my main goals which was to just be in the field as a professional, doing it full time.