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You should be using arch linux with i3wm.
This person is opening up about their problems and their fears and you have the nerve to come and post this dumb shit of a joke.
I'd be ashamed of myself if I were you.
I went into programming PLCs for industrial applications. Totally stagnant, backwards industry, were the platform suppliers basically make a living, handing in advances from 20 years ago to the industries suppliers in the walled garden. Its stressful, every machine developed is a unicum, software reuse is widely not used and often not possible, due to the "lowest common denominator" setting up what can work for a tea…
A lot of them just... aren't what you think of as programmers. (I've quizzed a few, they can't do fizzbuzz).
I semi humorously tell people I want to overthrow the industrial programming market. If you want to team up and try to corner the market, drop me a line (email address in profile)
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I have this weird feeling that I'm making the same mistake right now.
It's very likely. 2 years seems to be standard, and I'm moving jobs after 1.5 next week. 20% raise for very similar work, there's no reason not to move.
I can't help but think that it's pathological to consider that "long" :/
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In my experience, it is hard to tell the difference between someone who killed it at a job for 1 year and moved on from someone who couldn't hack it and moved on. Promotion at a company signifies that they were well received and able to adapt and meet milestones. Same job title in and out reads to me to believe that they couldn't hack it and were no goes development opportunity. IMHO, a promotion before you leave con…
What if there are no promotions to be had? My longest tenure at any one company was 8 years and I never got promoted because it was all remote and I was technically an independent contractor. No one got promoted.
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One month vacation is great. it's a change of scenes and paces (you cannot just sprint all year long). We all need to slow down once in a while. Traveling for a year is just tiring...
I could extrapolate to 2 or 3 months given I've done a month or so (whether pure pleasure or a mix of business and pleasure) a number of times. But even the practical issues aside, I think I'd find much more than that tiresome after a while. I've known a few people who jumped into the digital nomad thing and by and large it didn't last too long.
Working while traveling is very hard. It's very hard to focus. Digital Nomad who is productive is simply a different kind of person.
Taking a year break in 2014. I lost potential to earn millions from continuity of my career. It was the early days of many startups I also discovered I like coding and don't really enjoy traveling. Traveling is romanticized too much in our culture.
The fact that you learned those things about yourself are valuable as well.
Working for a company that exploits [mostly] kids/teens' attention while being aware of the long term negative psychological effects of such.
We all hate it, but it pays the bills. It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.
For who? I'm not convinced that keeping things subtly bad, but maybe acceptable enough that users don't revolt, is necessarily a better outcome for anyone.
It was a story about my last manager. 2 years ago, I transferred to Cloud team internally from blockchain. Yeah, both of them were so hot and even today. I had to make this transfer because I have to relocated to another city where my family resides. And my mom was so sick, I had to consider to take care of her. This is the background.
At the first few weeks, I tried to learn the new knowgede of cloud native and it was so depressed. I was so new and I was not an open man. Because my mother's health condition always makes me so gloomy. I could not be open. So it was not efficient. Well, I love opensource and I have some experiences. So I was assigned to do some open source projects for our products. Now here we have the them:
1. My manager called me to out of the opensource team for something else that I did not listened and not interested at that time. 2. He said this was his team and he was the only man can decide that no one could change.
I was a little shocked at first. And hated this then. But I could not change this. I knew the only way I changed this that I argued with him or leave. I knew at that time every body in our team had quarrelled with him. But I felt down at that time I could spare the energy to fight.
I made my mistakes. Not sure this was a mistake. I have no idea who things would went if I had a different choice. I chose to accept it even though I felt so bad. I could have choosen another blockchan startups.
So I had a bad 1.5 years work experience in my career. One interesting story:
My manager wants us to show our minds about team. Guys had their voices out and the summary sent to him, which were all agaist him. Can you image what he looked like?
He denied all the comments from guys. And continued to do as his will. Then 8 months later, our team was laid off, all but me. I had a health condition at that time.
It was a bad experience. I should not have hesitated. I should have called out my thoughts. Or just leave.
Life is short. Please stay happy and focus on the lovable things.
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Usually say it with more tact, but it is along the lines of - “Yes. I’m a professional new guy. I’ve seen and worked on a lot of different types of technology, and I come up to speed quickly. I’m not afraid to ask ‘dumb’ questions when I can’t find what I’m looking for.” Something along those lines. I lean into it. But as I said, it doesn’t come up too often in the PNW.
I mean, that’s cool, but you haven’t actually adressed the problem, which is that I’ll spend 3 months training you, only to have you quit after 9 more. That’s not really a good investment
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Because maybe they’re just looking for the right environment, and maybe you’re it. Hiring is like dating, after all. This reads instead like an egregious case of the fundamental attribution error, and one that’d I’d view as quite the blunder by my management team, since the real consequence is limiting our access to the talent pool. Even aside from the FAE, this kind of attitude also systematically reinforces structu…
> Because maybe they’re just looking for the right environment, and maybe you’re it. Maybe, but they obviously also have a track record of being a poor judge of environment, since they got it wrong so often. > It’s also a failure of values since there’s an underlying assumption that people are interchangeable widgets, which is both false and dehumanising. Well, job hopping (in my experience) often signals that the ca…
Really? In my experience it signals that most humans recognize that the vast majority of employers are not interchangeable (hence looking around). And I'm not going to be upset by dehumanizing corporate organizations that are not human in nature in the first place.