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My salary did a x4, and I generally work half a day. Client can't judge your work and have no idea of what you are doing. But it's quite lonely not having an office with friends.
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This reminds me of advice I got from the VP of Eng at my first real full time tech job. This was back around late 1999 / early 2000. Peak of the dot com era. He told me what most people think of as job security is totally wrong. If you're the only person who knows something, you become a liability. But if you're constantly teaching and sharing that knowledge you become incredibly valuable to the organization. That's…
> If you're the only person who knows something, you become a liability. Sorry, this is just wrong. You are a liability if someone thinks about you that way. Fortunately, not that many people are like that. In Contrary, if you are the only one to know something then you are regarded very highly and almost untouchable.
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Do you have open positions? Sounds like something I'd do too.
If you're in the UK or Europe (AFAIK, this applies to Europe too), by law, any company has to seriously consider requests for flexible working (e.g. part-time hours). I simply asked, and they said "yeah, OK". Obviously working 20% less hours means 20% less pay and holidays. I work for an out-sourcing and consulting mega-corp - I get to work on interesting projects, but and honestly, it's a horrible company to work fo…
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>You can hack shit together with php + mysql, put in on a vps and you'll be treated like a sorcerer. This times 1,000,000
Yes this is one of the most true things I have ever read based on my own experience.. In 2009 I was hired to do mostly helpdesk / IT support for a printer/copier sales company, making $36k By 2012 I was making over $80k, being taken on the annual company trips with the high sales earners (cabo, hawaii), etc.. All basically because I set up a web based dashboard that aggregated numbers that their Sales CRM stored in a…
You're good. The principle of proximity applies, or was it locality of behavior?
Maybe I shouldn't share this, but get some expertise and work as an independent consultant. My salary did a x4, and I generally work half a day. Client can't judge your work and have no idea of what you are doing. But it's quite lonely not having an office with friends.
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Learning “on the job” is an anachronism from the days when companies invested in their employees and employees stayed in the same organization for their entire career. We’re moving towards the gig model, even calling programmers “rock stars” to sell it.
This is profoundly true. It's also one of the reasons I want to get out of IT after 20 years. I'm past the point where I'm tired of the meetings, false niceties, and desire from management to submit to the hive mind. Nothing worse than stand-ups, Teams or Google Meet meetings. No one wants to be in them. It takes time away from my job where I could actually be productive. This is why I really like the videos from Pat…
I too decided to drop tech ambitions, life + age made my brain completely lose interest in performance but more about joy and social harmony (meaning let's make everyone happy, relaxed and make efforts for the group).
I have no answer for you but a few simple gigs did make me happier, I'd actually code to make colleagues work better.
Or part time gig at charity association. No remote work in both case but it was both calm jobs. Not easy (unloading food trucks by hand will make you sweat, but it's good sweat you know) but calm, not high pressure.
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At one of my old gigs, I asked my then-colleague a bunch of questions about the codebase for a task I was assigned. He was always like "you are a senior resource, you should not ask such questions; if you want to find answers, look into the code itself." This is how he keeps his status and job at that company, and he is still there now. When I enquired around about how he got that tribal knowledge of that codebase, I…
>you are a senior resource, you should not ask such questions; if you want to find answers, look into the code itself. You should never tell anyone they 'should not ask such questions', but I will absolutely tell you 'hey, go read this code / documentation and it will help you understand'. Mainly, I just want you to show me that you've at least attempted to solve or research the problem yourself. If you've done that…
Or how you have grown since you graduated.
This is an awesome question. I hope someone has good strategies for you. Life should be spent doing the things you find worthwhile, and the fact is, not all of those things are monetizable. Given how esteem- and success driven HN as a platform is... you might not get too many ideas since I suppose people want to maintain their "hireable" status. Success and "loving your job" are more or less empty phrases unless you…
After 20 years of working and a sense of genuine burnout, I landed a "Dream Job" a few months ago where I'm doing tech leadership at a mid-size non-profit. We have a small familial team, a set of worthwhile and genuinely beloved public services and mission of doing good. There's still politics and revenue issues and all the sorts of stuff that a go along with any company, but it's a lot less aggressive. Work-life bal…
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Major cultural event And as for weddings about a million people lined the streets of London when Kate + William got married. Might not be your cup of tea, but horses for courses.
Ok. Major British cultural event. It would have been helpful to include that since (I assume) most HN readers are American. And I guess Royal weddings are more popular than I thought, at least in the UK.
> TV Ratings: 22.4 Million U.S. Viewers RSVP to Royal Wedding