Also to provide a bit of a tangent to your question, the "who's hiring" thread is predominantly developers and some project manager openings. People with a narrow set of specialised / a bit old skillset like Windows AD / Enterprise Setup administration, VMware / Citrix Administration and related profiles find it difficult to get suitable opportunities here.
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#172Related: Does anybody have a job or job ideas for me? I finished my veterinary degree in Germany (very late, but I finished) and I am a proficient coder, mostly web development in Django, but I also have a passion for Data Science (in Python and R) and Machine Learning. The veterinary degree here means I have a broad understanding of biology, medicine and food safety. I also did a bit of bioinformatics. People often…
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I have been working out since 2011, and I have been working 90% remotely since 2016, I even edited my linked in to say Work From Home so anybody who intends to write to me knows in advance, I still visit the office rarely - when some big manager comes over, or to collect some documents.
Is there possibility to working remotely and learning tech lead skills?
Yes!
Also, "jeziňka" is a Czech fairy tale being [1]. Did you know? Or perhaps it's a Polish word play on "jeżynka"?
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One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!
I would bike to work. It's a nice 12km. But I think it would significantly shorten my life expectancy.
You must live in Iowa, where looking a cyclist at worst, warrants a fund because it is "accidental".
We have a major bike ride across the state from West to East every year, called RAGBRAI along a different route. And seemingly every year, at least one cyclist is killed. Rarely is anyone charged with a crime. Tragic
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Statistically, it's the other way around.
Strongly disagree, depending how your commute is. In my office and on the factory floor we've had 3 major cycling accidents just in the last year - the latest guy was put into a coma for 2 weeks. I cycled for 6 months before I could afford a car, and counted 11 separate incidents that could have ended with me hospitalized if it weren't for some adrenalin fuelled swerves. Had one accident where someone failed to indic…
Where in the world is this and how many people at your workplace cycle? That’s a very depressing story.
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One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!
Biked to work for years and loved it until I crashed. No car involved just a stick or rock or something that allowed my front wheel to slip out from under me. If there’s some brilliant MEs out there, build a safer bike! Lower the center of gravity, improve traction, stability, whatever it takes!
For what it’s worth, you get better at falling the more you do it but this seems to be offset by age making falls worse.
Slick concrete parking garages and road tyres are a very bad combo.
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Statistically, it's the other way around.
Depends on the place. I happily biked for years in London (considered a dangerous cycling city). I gave up in fear of my life in Fiji (tiny and sparsely populated). I wouldn't even consider it in Dublin (which has a lot of cycle lanes).
FWIW I cycled for 10+ years in Dublin without incident
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This idea always appealed to me in theory but I sweat so easily that it never made sense unless I want to show up covered in sweat and feel sticky all day. Maybe if there's a locker/shower I can use and go directly to work and shower there it could work for me.
Really depends on the climate - I commuted to my last job via bike, and it never would have worked in the summer without a shower at the job.
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This idea always appealed to me in theory but I sweat so easily that it never made sense unless I want to show up covered in sweat and feel sticky all day. Maybe if there's a locker/shower I can use and go directly to work and shower there it could work for me.
A lot of people pretend it is the tour de france. I just ride slower and take my time.
Something is triggered by there being a bike just in front or (much worse) just behind.
The more dressed up and the better the opposing bike (somehow they are in opposition) the greater the effect.
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No, rather they had a good “I’m a freelance developer” web site that showed two things: 1) Some amount of professional experience in the technology we were looking for a contractor in. 2) An attitude that boiled down to “I write software to fulfill business objectives.” (The opposite attitude is what I characterize as the “hipster coder,” who says “I couldn’t possibly work on your legacy system unless you agree to re…
It is a funny old world when the one fact that they are willing to be managed as a technical contributor sets a candidate apart.
There are developers that if you let them loose on your code base without supervision for 6 months you'll find that your simple rails app turned into a 12 docker container microservices monster without ever so much as stumbling near a business requirement.