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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.
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We need to talk money going in, or someone is wasting my time. "Don't be showing up on the Ferrari dealership forecourt with a Honda budget in your pocket." I don't generally deal with recruiters anymore. Haven't had a job through a recruiter in a long time. My last round of looking for a job (5+ months ago) I had an interview where I confirmed that the compensation would be satisfactory. Did the interview, got an of…
Did they confirm the offer _during_ your interview? If yes, then it was a dick move and you definitely dodged a bullet. I'm asking because I know of some cases where the salary range was listed in the job posting, but after talking to the candidate, the company decided to offer them a number that was below the lower bound, saying that the level of the candidate not enough compared to what they had in mind when they w…
Now, they might have thought "this guy isn't worth $X, let's offer him $Y" instead, but offering an exceptionally senior candidate $100K is one hell of a "we don't think you're worth it" snub. It's insulting.
You can do all those things meaningfully: I think it's really about the end product (physical or not) - if you are making something you don't believe is useful to society, or don't have control over how your efforts are being used downstream, then it can easily become inherently meaningless. There are basic needs: clean water, clean air, infrastructure, transportation, logistics, etc., etc. And also "non-tangible one…
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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.
Could the calls to police be due to concern rather than anger?
People get angry because they care. I can find gratitude for that in the face of their anger.
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I've found that just telling them, up front, that I'm over 40, terminates the relationship almost immediately. They can't hang up, fast enough, and I never hear from them again.
This is hilarious and depressing at the same time since, having turned 40 recently, I still hope to start a first career in software development in the near future.
My secret is to learn and know "enough" about every OS, every language, every framework out there. Of course you're starting and you don't have either the time or experience to do everything, but do it anyway, slowly, one task at a time. Compare, study a bit, read, and have fun. Also, don't be scared, no one knows everything, you just need to know enough to be able to help (and learn at the same time).
I have no advice on how to find a professional field that you can fall in love with, as I pretty much fell in love with mine (mobile dev) on the first go (back in '09). Just realize that being love with something doesn't mean it is always blissful. I love my partner to a deeper degree than I do with any other person (we have no kids), yet we do sometimes fight and don't get along. It is the same with any job or profe…
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…
As someone a little older, what is interesting is that it comes back around again. By which I mean, at first you start out desiring this joy you don't know how to access, and then later you feel mournful about what could have been... but honestly for me I found a third phase later, of realizing those abilities/passions/joys were always with me all along anyway. In school I was torn between music and creative writing…
I have no advice on how to find a professional field that you can fall in love with, as I pretty much fell in love with mine (mobile dev) on the first go (back in '09). Just realize that being love with something doesn't mean it is always blissful. I love my partner to a deeper degree than I do with any other person (we have no kids), yet we do sometimes fight and don't get along. It is the same with any job or profe…
Maybe off topic - but what kind of coffee setup do you have? :)
It has served me well, and I've only slightly adjusted the grind burrs.
I have been looking into perhaps going for something a bit more advanced, and then a machine that has two boilers (the Sage has only one, and it can take a bit of time to make espresso for a whole dinner party).
Apart from the machine I also got my self a propper tamper that fits well in my hand, a Acaia Lunar scale capable of 0.1 gr accuracy that also has different triggers for tracking flow time and then a couple of VST precision baskets (the sage ones were alright but I decided to try these out).
Most important of it all though is the high quality coffee I get from my local roastery :)
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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.
It is so negative though. Live in the now and make the now the way you want it to be.
Sometimes (most of the times for the "normal" person), this is impossible, contradictory, conflicting...His approach to the subject is realistic, effective...Does it sound good? definitely no...That's life..
You can look at it in a positive way though...work with the resources you have to get the best from them...maybe not the life you want, but the best one you can get from your current reality.