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Raising my son. Playing music with my friends. Building a home and relationships with my partners. Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry. Caring for specific peoples' specific needs. That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", w…
Raising my son. Playing music with my friends. Building a home and relationships with my partners. Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry. Caring for specific peoples' specific needs. That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", w…
How important is it that you have a fulfilling day job? I see many replies about things outside of work being fulfilling, but doesn't work give you the freedom to have the time/money to do the things that give you substance? Asking since I find some things I work on are very unfulfilling.
That's a personal question that you'd have to answer for yourself. Work doesn't give you time but it does give you money. Money can assist in providing you opportunities to do things that give you substance but it most definitely isn't the only tool that provides that opportunity. If you would like your work to provide fulfillment you should look for other job opportunities. No harm from that. If it isn't necessary t…
Raising my son. Playing music with my friends. Building a home and relationships with my partners. Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry. Caring for specific peoples' specific needs. That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", w…
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My for-pay labor is not as optimized as yours but I treat my job like that as well. I don't need to find meaning or personal value (great if I can) in my job. I get that from my friends and family and the experiences I have with those people outside of work.
In my opinion, it is quite depressing to not chase meaning and personal value in something that takes 1/3 of my living time.
Nonetheless, your statement is a valid one. Personally, I do my best to reduce that 1/3. Finding work that allows flexible schedules or work remotely but all that job needs to do is provide me money, which in turn gives me more freedom.
That's not to say that I don't find satisfaction in my work, it's just ancillary, and so far, not a requirement.
[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonhard-widrich/the-origin-o...
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Sounds theoretical. Salary is fixed and if there’s a supply of alternative workers and resource scarcity mentality then allowing employees free time makes them more valuable to and easier to engage by competitors. Qualatative arguments go out the window when the shoe strings tighten in my experience. My ideals agree and I’ve banged my head trying to maintain boundaries with my managers, now 5 jobs in. Experience is w…
Alternatively, the time saved allows them to move onto other tasks and accomplish more in a day. Saving 30 seconds on a database query can add up to years of time in a large company. It's not that uncommon for hardware engineers to be issued a company credit card, simply for the time saved vs bugging a manager for a purchase order for a $5.00 digikey order.
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I wonder what your functional tests are like? Do you do dry runs of the robot on mars like surface?
Yes, to test mobility (locomotion and navigation) we have a prototype model that we operate in an environment as close to the Mars surface as possible (representative sand, slopes and rocks etc.)
If you are writing code for the transmission engine module for example, would you write test cases for all connected subsystems that might fail? If so, I imagine the dependency between systems probably gets really complicated and almost impossible to remember. So how do you ensure all systems respond and behave correctly in all possible known and unknown failure scenarios.
Edit: I just realized this is no different than writing code for cars. I guess there are protocols in place and as long as your parts conform to the standards, the complexity is reduced.
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My for-pay labor is not as optimized as yours but I treat my job like that as well. I don't need to find meaning or personal value (great if I can) in my job. I get that from my friends and family and the experiences I have with those people outside of work.
In my opinion, it is quite depressing to not chase meaning and personal value in something that takes 1/3 of my living time.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Infrastructure_Initiative