A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour • Hacker News Board

Re: A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour

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Post by digita88 » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

rickhanlonii wrote: post #52

sergiotapia wrote: post #12

I work 40 hours a week at maximum - most weeks I work about 34 to 38 hours. You 80 hours a week guys, what the hell are you doing with your time? Are you divorced? No family? No friends? Is 'disrupting' an industry really that important to you?

My name is Rick and I'm a 80 hour a week guy. I'm 26, single, and have no pets. I have a family and friends, but I'm very transparent about my work habits and priorities as a full-stack engineer. Being so young, I see myself as training to be the person I want to be in the future. The best programmers in the world worked at it relentlessly. Sure, there are variances in the amount that they all worked, and some did it…

You are not doing cancer research, you are not saving lives as a doctor, you are not building hospitals in Africa. If you want to make a meaningful impact on the world, quit your job as a full-stack engineer and go do something more hands-on. Retain your skills and interest in this area on your 'downtime'. Then come back, hungrier than ever, more humble and more experienced of the world than ever. Life doesn't happen in front of a computer screen, it doesn't happen in printed books or on discussion threads.

I did something similar to you. But before I did the change I was burnt out and very depressed (I was at an extremely low point of my life). I don't regret it.

Believe me. Do some creative destruction. And come back in two-three years time.

Re: A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour

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Post by pyrrhotech » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 11:19 PM UTC

hashberry wrote: post #275

pyrrhotech wrote: post #109

As a decent software engineer with a couple years of experience, you need to be making at least 80-100/hr or you are cheating yourself. If you are working 60 hours a week, you better be making at least $250k/year

yeah bro if you are working 40 hours a week, you better be making at least $166k/year

correct, if you are any good at engineering and negotiating

Re: A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour

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Post by ultimatedelman » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 8:22 AM UTC

gaius wrote: post #267

dwaltrip wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are making some leaps, as well as a few judgments, based on relatively little information. I hope you realize this.

Sure, but there is only one community that uses that vocabulary. No-one doing computational chemistry or machine learning or weather forecasting or quantitative finance (or any of a hundred other kinds of programming) calls themselves a "full stack engineer" or a "javascript ninja". Only guys assembling websites out of pre-built components (aka frameworks) like Ikea furniture, for companies to use for marketing.

yes, because everyone building websites are mouth-breathing neanderthals who know nothing other than how to assemble marketing websites from pre-built web components and frameworks that do nothing important.

get over yourself, bud.