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Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

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Re: Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

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Post by ambrozk »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #109
justinlloyd wrote: post #33

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…

Web developer for many years. Lost interest in CRUD apps because they’re mostly the same architecture with different content. I’ve been learning WebGL and using math more than I have since college. It’s very rewarding and what I feel my Computer Science degree prepared me for. I spend a lot of time outdoors and my project is a map simulation of terrain shadows. Every time I’m outdoors and my model lines up with physi…

How did you get into this? Did you learn the tech with a job in mind, or did you just learn the tech and then jobs started appearing?

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Post by riantogo »

Nextgrid wrote: post #71
carlmr wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>My response on LinkedIn or AngelList when approached by business people and recruiters with their dreadful job opening is usually along the lines of "Thanks for making me aware of this opportunity. Sounds boring. Good luck in your continuing candidate search." Thank you, this is what I always think with these job adverts. It's almost impossible to think about anything less appealing than a list of technologies they…

The worst is when the company brags about their funding as if it makes any difference to me. If anything, it makes their shitty offer look even more shitty. If you're gonna brag about millions, you better offer me a decent cut.

I never respond to those emails, but after reading your comment I'm thinking maybe I should reply with, "what % of those X millions is being offered for this role?"

Re: Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

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Post by tata71 »

bahumbug wrote: post #93
adamcharnock wrote: post #5

After 15 years as a freelance developer I’ve started a rural wireless ISP. It hasn’t entirely displaced my freelance work, but allows me to help people in a way that being a developer didn’t (tangibly, at least). Now I install internet access for people, on infrastructure I have built, and I see how happy they are when they go from 2 to 100mbps (this is often in a field in the middle of nowhere). This means they can…

I know some people who made millions working the Universal Service Fee system, getting paid gobs of subsidies to provide DSL / wifi to hillbillies in West Virginia. It's like digital gold if you know how to really work the system.

are you friends with 90s-00s Verizon?

Jokes aside, "hillbillies" are people too.

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Post by tata71 »

justinlloyd wrote: post #33

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…

Would you agree that the path should be a SaaS that keeps you in a position to keep a flow of new and intriguing work/individuals in tech in your vicinity?

Re: Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

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Post by zem »

yes, i currently work on static type analysis for python, and i love it. i've always been interested in programming languages as a hobby - just trying out random languages, learning about new programming paradigms and ideas, reading up on interpreter and compiler design - and when i had a chance to join a language tooling team i jumped on it. i've enjoyed aspects of other jobs before but i think this is the first one i really love in the "not even thinking of looking elsewhere" sense.

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

redisman wrote: post #121
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #90

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So far, it's when they're outside naked or in a diaper in the cold or if we're playing near an intersection.

Why are they out in the cold without clothes? Seems fairly reasonable to worry about

Human beings learn to regulate their body temperature by being exposed to it. They're out in the cold without clothes because that's their choice. When their body is past its ability to stay warm, they'll ask for clothes. We check in with them and have warm clothes available for them when this is going on. We also have learned from other cultures that live in much colder climates to watch for the second shiver. The thinking is that the first one is the body relaxing into the cold as it warms up and the second one is the body shivering to create more warmth than it can from simply relaxed breathing. This tracks with my experiences in the cold.

Cold exposure is necessary for thriving. In the US, there's a culture of fear of cold exposure. It helps build up immunity and simply the basic operation of self-regulation.

Years of depending on clothes and machines to regulate our body temperatures seems to be leading to less resilience, not more.

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Post by theonething »

justinlloyd wrote: post #132
loonster wrote: post #76

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Many ways to do it * Become really good at something * Live a modest lifestyle * Have low debt * Have decent savings

I don't think I have or am any of those things.

Looking at your resume, I find it hard to believe that you're not really good at something.

Re: Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

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Post by vmception »

In a corporate structure I haven't found any one pigeonhole I like.

I was fine being an individual contributor because I got to listen to Spotify all day with noise cancelling headphones, while learning new coding techniques and playing the compensation bump game, but only as long as compensation bumps seemed practical and got me closer to my goals which became less true over time, especially as stretching compensation desires came with a lot greater scrutiny and impossible expectations.

Being an executive was fine for compensation goals but I didnt like that it was sales. I didnt like balancing all the relationships. I didnt like that my approach to business as a one-off expedition to the new world isn't matched by people that imagine building a corporate forever-home.

Slimming that down further and leaner in other projects, I do like that my precision strike team can execute fast and that I can contribute in all areas, but its hard to focus.

I’m more satisfied with creative arts, which I used to subsidize with my jobs until those become fulfilling as well, so maybe I can just do art again, since the market for that just got super lucrative.

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