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Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by dane-pgp »

SapporoChris wrote: post #177
dane-pgp wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For comparison, the Washington Post[0] says: "The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. ... That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614,000,000." So in a given (180 day) year, such a child has a 1 in 3.4 million chance of dying, wh…

You appear to be conflating children with teachers. I was commenting on teacher risk, and linked deaths by profession. What you responded with was children, which are not teachers, or even a profession.

Forgive me if my statistic caused the topic to stray away from the issue of teacher safety. The recent tragedy in Uvalde did involve the deaths of more students than teachers, which I assume is typical for such events, but on the other hand there are probably more teachers than school students leaving comments on this topic, so you're right, it may be better to limit consideration to just professions for now.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by morgangrubb »

Toutouxc wrote: post #45

Pretty demotivated, working only lightly but still on the verge of burnout. Currently upgrading and older Rails 5 project to Rails 7. The Ruby part is okay, but guess what, dealing with JS sucks in a new, different way. Again. Really looking forward to the summer though, I got an inflatable kayak (my first boat ever) and so far it's been a blast.

I got our app up to Rails 7 and it's refreshing. I also did the hard work to replace webpacker with esbuild and dartsass. Build times went from 14 minutes to I'm taking every opportunity to replace stimulus reflex with turbo and that's paying dividends, too.

Also, I've bought a 15' West Wight Potter and am doing a bunch of work on that (well, the trailer right now, but once the trailer is done I can start on the boat). Looking forward for this foundational work to start paying off when I go sailing around the islands over summer.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by uxp100 »

Ntrails wrote: post #180
uxp100 wrote: post #174

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I'm not suggesting under-reporting of German mass shootings in English (well, outside of the 1-2 casualty incidents which you also note), I just used a count from wikipedia. I suspect the difference in our numbers is whether you include shootings at University. I didn't, but that is a completely arbitrary call, maybe they should be included. I'm not trying to create a ranking or hierarchy, just emphasizing that not e…

I actually think focussing on the mass casualty count aspect is misplaced. I don't spend my time at work worried about how wrong things went, I worry about how bad an incident of that sort could have been given a less favourable set of circumstances. ie. Yes someone got onto the network, but they were dumb and got blocked having done no damage. Is it serious because of the potential or not because of the lack of impa…

I suspect if not the world leader, the world leader among wealthy countries (Some South American countries have shockingly high murder rates overall, so those would be the others to check I think, though those murders might have a different sort of etiology). It would require a little more work to determine, since lower impact incidents in other countries are less reported on English wikipedia than those in the US, and even in the US I suspect they're not comprehensively cataloged.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by dirtybirdnj »

farmerstan wrote: post #190
dirtybirdnj wrote: post #163

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I tried working at a commercial pizza kitchen for about six months. I loved the creative cooking aspect of it. I hated the monotonous, thankless backbreaking work. At the end of the week I lost all my time, and I had hardly enough money to pay the bills let alone disposable income. It was a net negative on my wallet and it was physically destructive to me, I was sore and worn out and that was a huge motivator to fina…

I didn’t mean an extended break. I meant a break like a long weekend where you try not to think about it. Bra does like that at help clear your mind if possible. The biggest things is stop feeling like a failure. That causes a negative feedback loop that will continue a pattern of bad decisions making. Forgive yourself and Clear your head.

I agree with everything in your original post. Its like riding a bicycle you can't grip the handlebars too hard or you negatively impact your ability to steer properly.

Cultivating forgiveness and empathy for myself is a lifelong journey. It's really hard but positive comments from people like yourself helps a lot. Thank you.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by taesu »

wnolens wrote: post #125

I've felt very much in limbo for a few years. I'm facing some one-way doors about where I want to spend the next chapter/decade of my life. My reaction is mostly of fear. Move back to my home country where my friends and family are. I only really like the lifestyle of the downtown core of a single city there. I'd give up permanent residency to the U.S. Pay cut would be to 1/3rd my current salary with a similar cost o…

try for 3 months and come back. if you are happier there stay there.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by stoicjumbotron »

Really burned out by the recent project on which I'm working on. The base code written by the previous developers is so bad, my team members and I have to work 9+ hours on a recurring basis to just fix the bugs caused by this buggy code. I'm just tired and burned out by this.

Sorry for my rant

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by smarmgoblin »

valbaca wrote: post #154
groby_b wrote: post #130

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Pay the price, study leetcode, find that stupid subsequence. That's a few weeks of your life, which is an ok price if it results in a better pay package/more stable environment/whatever it is you really want. Would it be better if interviews didn't suck? Sure. Not going to change any time soon. (OTOH, if it's just an incremental change, maybe not worth it. Do the math, figure out how highly you value a change, and co…

You're absolutely right about just biting the bullet and grinding as it should pay off tenfold for a salary increase. I know it's all really just a numbers game. The """problem""" is I already make $250-300k. Last year I went through 30 interviews. They either fell through because of salary (they couldn't even come close to my current) or they just straight up lied until the very end about it being remote (name & sha…

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Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by cehrlich »

Not great.

A bit more than two years ago my wife went back home to Japan to give birth to our daughter. Then covid hit and her stay there was prolonged. At some point she decided she'd rather stay there permanently.

I accepted that she wasn't going to change her mind, so I started doing everything I can to prepare for a variety of possible futures: - Learning web development to transition from my current career as a university lecturer in an unrelated subject, as this would give me the possibility to sooner or later work remote which might allow me to move to Japan, and/or earn more so that I don't end up struggling to make ends meet in case of a divorce. - Learning Japanese to a level where I can read most things and hold a decent conversation, to make the option of moving to Japan viable.

I went to Japan for a month recently and realized that it's basically impossible for me as a foreigner to ever have a satisfying social life there, despite speaking the language to a decent level. I'm not sure I can live there without completely destroying what's left of my mental health.

Now that I feel just about ready to start applying to some React/Node jobs, the market crashes and from what I've read many companies here in Europe are implementing hiring freezes, especially on Junior roles. On top of that the market in Austria has never been anywhere near as good as some other places. Of course I only need one job, but it's very demotivating.

Most days I spend 14-16 hours between my current job, commute, programming, and language learning. I basically enjoy all three of those things, but the grind is wearing me out. I find that when I take time to meet family and friends I'm so exhausted mentally that I often barely participate in conversations, and feel guilty the whole time that I'm not being productive.

Re: Poll: How are you doing currently?

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Post by frxx »

cehrlich wrote: post #199

Not great. A bit more than two years ago my wife went back home to Japan to give birth to our daughter. Then covid hit and her stay there was prolonged. At some point she decided she'd rather stay there permanently. I accepted that she wasn't going to change her mind, so I started doing everything I can to prepare for a variety of possible futures: - Learning web development to transition from my current career as a…

What were your barriers while living in Japan? Have been here for five years now, don't mind it at all...
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