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You don't have what it takes to be a software developer. Please, do yourself and everyone else a favor and stop trying to be one. Why? Pick one. It's like the other poster here said: you're doing it all wrong. If you ARE a programming fool (like me for example) go out and find a new gig. Move it! Move it! That's what I tell myself. Then I get my act together and make it happen.
Dude, get your stuff together and stop playing a victim . Just.. stop! It's embarassing.
Having a daughter that you can't provide for adequately can be crushing. I'd say 'stop playing a victim' may be ok. But saying it's embarrassing is bit too much.
I feel like something needs to be said about having _4_ children while bouncing around minimum wage. Everyone knows raising a kid isn't cheap, and I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to have as many kids as you want (different discussion), but having 4 without the funds to do so seems irresponsible.
What a bastard! Sorry for the language guys, but guess we all know someone like that boss! It's not that hard when you're single but the things are totally different when you had a family and kids. The situation can drag you to any point when it comes to a hungry brother, sister or children. I know, I've been there (thank god it's a history now). But the good news is, you are really valuable. I mean, you are a ruby d…
I hate to break it to you, but if you are making £400/£450 per day as a Ruby contractor in London with less than 1 year of development experience, you are either insanely good or insanely lucky (probably both). Although I'm working on contract in Japan at the moment, I spent the last 2 years working in London and interviewing people for positions almost every day. Entry level for a good Ruby dev is £30-40K for a full…
400 GBP is low end dev. Companies such as Accenture rent out juniors for a lot more than that.
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Right, blame the guy for being exploited like so many others. 1/ He did not quit or made any ultimatum. He acted on what was promised, nothing wrong with that. But right you should always lower your head and submit to the startups and their heads. 2/ Typical protection of abusive companies by telling employees who are being openly screwed : "Deal with it". Such a healthy advice, lets not question the ethics and worki…
> If I were in his position I would have made sure that their name are public and known to prevent others from being exploited. I respect and agree with your points, but do not agree 100% with this advice. Exploiters are the default. (Just the higher up you go, the nicer face they show you. Because you can hurt them more.) I only agree with this advice if you can do it without suffering serious blowback. I try to car…
This is not intended as a slight against your or anyone's advice here, seriously. But I chose my nick for a reason, and when I read things like scrubbing one's online presence from anything that suggests the sun doesn't shine out of one's butt 24/7, the hair on the back of my neck does stand up a little bit. The idea most people involved in such... theatre?... might actually be a great person "privately", but just feel forced to "play the game", makes this even more unsettling. If nobody feels responsible for causing it, who will fix it? The people who suffer a lot from it are too busy suffering or even dying, the overlap between finding this unbearable and having the means to fight it seems rather small.. sorry for ranting, but I guess with so much solid advice already given I thought I might as well :)
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Being in the US helps a lot for those remote jobs. Many "remote" companies only want people in US timezones. As an expat, this has been very frustrating for me recently since it excludes seemingly 75%+ of remote positions. I went from generating tens of millions of dollars of revenue for startups to being unable to get a reply from startups when applying for their remote positions.
The "being unable to get a reply from startups when applying for their remote positions" part is 100% true. I'm in such a position now and it's amazing how many companies complain about there being not enough good programmers and at the same time don't do a basic courtesy of responding to their candidates.
I've heard this complaint before; it's absolutely ridiculous. You can get plenty of developers for nearly any technology as long as you stop offering pathetic wages. It's a seller's market, deal with it.
E.g., for jobs in the US, fire the fathers and mothers and hire single men at maybe half the salary and work them maybe 80 hours a week.
It appears that maybe the situation is better in the Scandinavian countries.
Still, in the more advanced countries, e.g., US, England, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, the native populations are going extinct, i.e., not having enough babies. So, there's no room for families, mothers, children.
Extinct? In Finland, the average number of children born per woman is 1.5 instead of the minimum for a stable population of 2.1. So, from
(2.1/1.5)^10 = 29
single men and fire
When people promise something x in the future, without any official contract I automatically assume that its not going to arrive. It's just carrot. Expect the worst, and be a bit stoic. In many ways less gain now, is better than larger potential gain later because of the risk you take.
Don't try to forcefully negotiate, or use ultimatums without any BATNA. When he broke his promise, don't say anything. Find another offer, come back and say I have offer x now, bye. Maybe he will give a counter-offer if he really cared.
I've learned this from experience.
I can't even imagine having a 40+K$ salary in my country (Turkey) that's like 3x what I make.
SF devs make 150k+. It doesn't mean anything because at the end of the day after taxes and rent they probably take home less than you.
$5k/mo rent exists in SV, but if you're paying that much, it's because you choose to, not because you have to.
I love this industry, but it sickens me when people on six figures moan about how they're 'so poor' or 'hardly make anything' and try to distort the numbers to make it sound bad.
Time to get your game face on. I'm a CEO, we're hiring but not in your skill area. Having interviewed a lot of candidates lately and looked at many more, I wanted to give you my 2c on getting into extremely hirable shape fast: Update your LinkedIn profile as someone has mentioned already. Sweeten it up, get a great looking but professional profile pic up there, get kudos from friends, etc. Do the online profile clean…
> get a great looking but professional profile pic up there, get kudos from friends Really? as a CEO those are signals for you? the profile picture is debatable but the endorsements are just a joke and everyone knows it, people just exchange them like they do with twitter follows. If anything, too many of them would be a negative signal for me. Completely agree with the rest of your comment though.