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Office 10 - Full-time WFH for over 3 years.
People 8 - Generally a lot of good, smart people.
General Happiness 9 - Good job, well respected, good pay, no crunch time, educational assistance, it's really a great gig.
I have coworkers and a boss I like, a (mostly informal) project that I own, and usually get asked rather than told if there's another project someone wants to borrow me for.
OTOH anything relating to HR borders on the kafkaesque, and the processes around any project that's formal enough to be "on the radar" are almost as bad.
5 Early 30s, spending days staring at computer screens is a nice way to waste your life, the whole RoR to Node.js to Go and React hype cycle made me realize I'm too old for this shit. Finding a job where I'm above of all that madness would be great but middle management is even worse and it's not in me. Maybe self-sufficiency farming would be a better route. Also, when you have a mostly physical demanding job, you ca…
Wow, are you me? When people ask me if I feel like programming is what I want to do the rest of my life I often reply with "No, I think one day I'll just drop it all and move on the country side". Nice to know I am not the only one :)
Mid 30s, Senior, Independent consultant, Generalist. Take on projects I find fun. Took 1 point off simply because income isn't steady and predictable.
Early 30s. I love deep learning. Every day I'm challenged by my work, and inspired by the papers I read.
I love helping people bring this tech into their business, and making sure real problems get solved
The only thing that would change if I won the lottery would be I would have a larger GPU cluster
1 - I hate my life. Plan is to get the money together to start a non tech business. Tech is boring these days.
3/4points Pay feels fair
1/3points surrounding people are funny, interesting, or mentors
1.5/2points difficulty of work is matched to me
0.5/0.5points purpose of work is meaningful
0/0.5points I exercise creativity
I wish I did more than just sit in my chair all day and look at incorrect printf statements and compiler errors. I want to try fun things that I have to be creative about, like marketing or sales or video editing. I don't want to be a programmer my whole life. But I don't even know where to start. It would be nice to be paid to learn at other places too.
10 I'm the founder of my own startup. I love being able to work on interesting technical challenges while solving tangible problems for companies.
I'm in my late 20's, working for the same company for the past 5 years (worked on 3-5 projects in total, though), C, C++, Qt, VTK, ITK... it's very interesting and also my preferred stack to work with, I also learn(ed) a lot here, so no complains. But currently I'm bored and also the financial situation on the company isn't helping. So yeah... 5.
10, starting my own business
After my 9-5 work and at weekends, I work on my own company (mobile security consulting). I'm full steam on this because everything non-technical is new to me, and I'm very excited to see where this is going.