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Re: Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?

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Post by Huggernaut »

sigriv wrote: post #19

1 earn an income with my passion project https://QuietNearMe.com 2 play more, more humor, more laughs 3 expand social circle, make new friends

Neat project. For what it's worth I want to poke around at it to discover "what kind of places might you recommend near me" to find out if I'm interested but I don't want to sign up without any sense of its value so I just closed the page.

Re: Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?

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Post by solarpunk »

I'd like to pivot in the opposite direction as you, from DevOps to software engineering.

I'd like to get more personal project done. I started many this year, but never finished most. (Friends have told me to seek ADHD diagnosis and treatment.)

I find myself wanting to do something entrepreneurial, but I very consistently talk myself out of any ideas I have for for moral/ethical reasons. I'd like to find something that doesn't involve some race to the bottom and also promotes some kind of, idk how to put this, rejuvenation of the commons. I used to daydream about starting a WISP and bootstrapping it into a FTTH provider, but I find I was mostly interested in the fiddling with and improving administrative/management software suites for WISPs and traditional ISPs. (I worked my way into tech from being a wisp/fttx technician for a summer job.)

Re: Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?

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Post by mbustamanter »

comfypotato wrote: post #17
mbustamanter wrote: post #6

1. Finish my academic duties (masters degree). 2. Get a job, start a small side business, grow my online presence. 3. Get the hell out of Latin America, this continent is far too violent.

Expressing curiosity regarding your third point: the time zones of Latin America are very friendly to USA work. How does the violence fare in more expat (pricier) locations? I’m sorry for you that you and your friends(/family) have to deal with an unsafe environment. I’m curious what you mean by violence. I got into a database of potential consultants for a Latin American software company, and I’m open to input regar…

If you earn an american salary, by that I mean from an american company and in USD, you'll have no problem living comfortably in an upscale neighborhood i.e. the safest and with lots of amenities. The reason is, not only you are paid in a strong currency (compared to the local ones) but also the quantity is higher.

Now, by violence I mean mostly all things stemming from drug-trafficking (hitmen, kidnappings, racketeering, extortion, carjacking) most commonly found in central america but expanding to southern countries more and more. The safest cities were historically Montevideo in Uruguay and Santiago in Chile, I may be biased but I think Montevideo is still safe and I'm not sure about Santiago, unless you choose to live in the eastern side of the city [0]. EDIT: you may want to factor political instability in your decision. I encourage you to ask other expats about their experience and what they see in the future, they're well-off so they they're lucky to avoid unpleasant experiences the local population has to deal with (plus they can always return to the US). I personally would only live in Chile and Uruguay, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_zone_of_Santiago

Re: Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?

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Post by bigpeopleareold »

1. Get a new job in software dev

2. Get better with everyday Norwegian (that new job should take care of that)

3. Get to A1 level in French (Bonjour, monsieur !)

4. Get through my list of books

5. Start a toy side project only to present something and make small programs for myself along the way

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