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> people literally get angry watching us, will take clandestine photos, and call the police. What is it you are doing?
So far, it's when they're outside naked or in a diaper in the cold or if we're playing near an intersection.
are you trying to find a job that you love or trying to love something outside of work?
after youve answered that question, the next step is exploration. just try out different things and see if something sticks
the person who knows most about you is yourself and people close to you. and maybe ad targeting lmao
I didn’t like my job a year ago, but now that I’ve been given a mandate to improve things both code and process wise I’m really happy.
Essentially I wanted to pick my battles.
I started my own company. It was a shorter path than climbing the corporate ladder.
How do you know when you found it? In my case it was my wife saying you haven’t complained about work in a while. You must have found your stride.
Keep swinging for the fence.
I'm not obsessed about "working for my passion" or anything like that. I have a good life outside of work, supported by my high paying programmer job. I did a lot of job-hopping the past few years looking for the right place to work, and I finally found it. I look for companies that respect work-life balance, don't want me to work too hard, and have excellent engineering culture that values high quality work and has…
“Part of growing older is mourning the person you could have been.” One of the wisest and most succinct things I’ve read on this site.
- Sylvia Plath
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“Part of growing older is mourning the person you could have been.” One of the wisest and most succinct things I’ve read on this site.
Be careful with this one. If you could transport yourself back in time to each of the key decisions you made as a younger you, you would likely realize that in most cases, you made the best decision you could with the information and resources you had at the time. Learn from it, and then apply what you can for the benefit of older you. Regret is pernicious.
But you can still mourn all the things you didn’t do because of the choices you made.
Same way that I’m sad I cannot drink both the banana and apple shake at the same time.
I love to write code, I love to ship products and I love to build businesses. But what I really love, what drives me, is solving interesting problems. That's my entire career. Solve interesting problems. "We're building a web2.0 exercise tracking..." No! "We're putting health records on the block..." Nein! "We're improving how people buy insuran..." Non! "We're creating a mobile app to submit expens..." Nee! "We're b…
Well this made my day. I usually ignore recruiters since everytime i tried telling them that i'm looking for something else, they either keep insisting to have a call or they forget about me for a few days and then start sending the same things.
I think this will be my new response for recruiters :)
I'm not obsessed about "working for my passion" or anything like that. I have a good life outside of work, supported by my high paying programmer job. I did a lot of job-hopping the past few years looking for the right place to work, and I finally found it. I look for companies that respect work-life balance, don't want me to work too hard, and have excellent engineering culture that values high quality work and has…
I pursued video games as a professional programmer and all it did was kill my enjoyment of games in general. I couldn’t really get my creativity out either because you’re a cog in a 10-100+ person team and often you work on projects you probably wouldn’t play if you weren’t paid for it. I still dream about FIRE and working as a 1-3 person studio working on silly creative little games for the joy of it.
The answer is really simple: try something new. Choose randomly, go on a hunch, put yourself out there.
I love to write code, I love to ship products and I love to build businesses. But what I really love, what drives me, is solving interesting problems. That's my entire career. Solve interesting problems. "We're building a web2.0 exercise tracking..." No! "We're putting health records on the block..." Nein! "We're improving how people buy insuran..." Non! "We're creating a mobile app to submit expens..." Nee! "We're b…
>"Thanks for making me aware of this opportunity. Sounds boring. Good luck in your continuing candidate search." Well this made my day. I usually ignore recruiters since everytime i tried telling them that i'm looking for something else, they either keep insisting to have a call or they forget about me for a few days and then start sending the same things. I think this will be my new response for recruiters :)
The best way to get recruiters to stop responding is:
Thank you for making me aware of this opportunity. Before I waste your time, I have a few quick questions that I'd like answered:
Is this fully remote? Or on-site?
And most importantly, what is the compensation range for this position?