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My Failure Resume

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#121
Looking at the "Failure Resume" at the bottom; it seems massive to me! But then I notice that there are as many as 13 entries for a single day (e.g. 7/5/2018). What exactly is meant by "failed" here? Did you interview at 13 companies on the same day (unlikely), or receive 13 rejection letters on the same day, or submit 13 applications in a day that received no response?

If I was being critical, I would say this looks like resume padding. I would suggest you avoid spreading yourself too thin and focus on failing harder at fewer things ;-)

Re: My Failure Resume

#123
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still, seems like you move up. I'm over a decade in and still a shitty midlevel.

What are you doing to move up? I don't think I am anything special nor was I a super go-getter and I've moved up fine in the same time span (came in as an ~associate, moved up to senior in ~2 years, got principal in 1.5 years, sat around high-level senior / defacto tech lead for a few years until I finally got a break with an actual lead title). You are either in too big of a pond (ie: you should work in a smaller pl…

I'm not doing shit now. I gave up a few years ago. I was an acting senior dev for a year and a tech lead for another. I had great reviews and was performing beyond my role. I was involved in stretch assignments/groups too. I even had a tech lead from another team I was working with send an email to my manager praising my help. Then that project was outsourced and I helped bring the sourcing team to speed.

I went to another area of the company and volunteered to be a security champion (above my level at the time) which turns out I was the only one for 6 teams across 2 departments. I had awesome reviews from the people I worked with on this. I volunteered for other assignments too and "won" (asshole manager would give teo people a task that one person could do to see who would step up). I was a regular attendee and contributor at the tech lead and manager meetings (like a design/architecture/SoS for the app). When I was leaving that team one of the tech leads asked what role I was taking on a different team. I told them it was a midlevel dev. They then asked why I was taking a demotion - they thought I was a senior dev the whole time. Maybe just to be polite, but a few others echoed the same sentiment at hearing that.

The security and tech lead years were a lot more than being in the code. In fact, I was focused on a lot of PM related stuff during the tech lead year and feel my lack of coding actually hurt me in the future because I was no longer coding on a daily basis but doing stuff like coordinating, troubleshooting, etc. So then I wasn't as fast at actual coding.

Re: My Failure Resume

#125

The list of jobs is jobs unsuccessfully applied for is that right? It can’t be a list of jobs that this person did, there’s too many to make sense. The blog post is not clear.

Yes, interviewed with, or put some kind of time investment in

Re: My Failure Resume

#126
So much awesome fail, sir, I salute you!

“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Re: My Failure Resume

#127
post #100

I'm sure the Lessons so Far list really does work, but it seems like mental illness to me. Trying to be entertaining to get followers, tailoring your work so that it gets attention, talking to the right people on social media and being sure to take their side or promote them. It's sickening. This is why every YouTube thumbnail has a face with bugged out eyes and huge fonts. This is why all news is sensationalism now.…

I 99% agree, and I would 100% agree, if it wasn't for one thing:

I need money to survive.

Every one of those things you cited, when you remove the levels of indirection, is oriented towards making money.

So, yeah. If I didn't have to make money I also wouldn't do those things. But I have to, so I do.

Re: My Failure Resume

#129

At first I was like, yeah, another one of those "follow my life as an indie dev" promos, then I scrolled down to your list of job "failures", and it was incredibly interesting to see just HOW MUCH some people get done in life. If you tend to be somewhat critical of self-promos, I'd still recommend you take a moment and at least scroll down on that page and see for yourself. Very impressive. Just goes to show that you…

I was also confused but those are jobs he applied for but wasn't hired.

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