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Job and other tips I learned the hard way (still making some mistakes): Rule #1: Negotiate from a position of strength. Fact #1: We tend to negotiate badly when we are desperate. Human nature. Fact #2: Desperation is a state of mind. You can really be in dire circumstances but keep a calm mind. This can be learned. I know stoic folks who are cool as ice when negotiating at the precipice of existence! Super men! (This…
Job and other tips I learned the hard way (still making some mistakes): Rule #1: Negotiate from a position of strength. Fact #1: We tend to negotiate badly when we are desperate. Human nature. Fact #2: Desperation is a state of mind. You can really be in dire circumstances but keep a calm mind. This can be learned. I know stoic folks who are cool as ice when negotiating at the precipice of existence! Super men! (This…
Same here, would love to travel and take a break. :) For now as you have said, would take up another job and start planning my exit from the rat race. :) Hope I will get my ticket soon :)
Job and other tips I learned the hard way (still making some mistakes): Rule #1: Negotiate from a position of strength. Fact #1: We tend to negotiate badly when we are desperate. Human nature. Fact #2: Desperation is a state of mind. You can really be in dire circumstances but keep a calm mind. This can be learned. I know stoic folks who are cool as ice when negotiating at the precipice of existence! Super men! (This…
Python is a great language, but three months isn't much time to become proficient and find work. You'll need to hit it hard. One way to build your resume would be to find a Python-based project on github, and submit a bug fix. Good luck!
Hope this helps
I agree about your assesment of programming jobs. We are mostly replaceable cogs and means to an end. We're only getting paid so much because this job is so unpleasant and most people would rather make 2-3x less than learn to program and spend most of their life sitting in front of a screen going through code bases. My personal answer to that was to start learning to draw. Getting from zero art skills to professional…
Very true - we are treated like a replaceable cog. We all have a craving to feel important. But i think i personally dislike the language in the industry - resource. I am a human being for god's sake not a 'resource'. I have feelings and emotions and i wanna feel like a human,not a number. Also, i noticed non-tech people seem to be into management - they simply dont understand software. This causes part of the frustr…
Practically every non-technologist that I know is baffled that I don't want to go into management. There are exceptions - as I work in finance, I get to talk to many analysts and portfolio managers. Everyone else though...it seems like if you view being a technologist as anything other than a means to an end - the end being some form of management - you lack ambition or are content to be a grunt.