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Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by fsloth »

HiYaBarbie wrote: post #51
brokedev wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I don't think they're bad. I have a lot of respect for a lot of the dev team and the product itself, which is why I'm so vague on details. Like I said in the post, I'm fairly private and didn't bring much up with anyone until the end, so I don't think anyone understood the situation. Actually one of the things that was encouraging during the past few months was remarks from former employees that [CEO] is a d…

For the record, your boss there is a psychopath, which means he's physically incapable of feeling remorse or guilt, and has no conscience. That's why he was able and willing to screw you over like that. Here's a brief overview: http://www.sociopathworld.com/p/portrait-of-sociopath.html .. but the rabbit hole goes pretty fucking deep. While I sympathize with your situation, it serves as a good reminder to others that…

Remote diagnosis of people is not advisable.

It's good to be aware of these facts, sure. Reading a one sided three paragraph description is not sufficient evidence.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by DanBC »

wyclif wrote: post #192
DanBC wrote: post #179

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And you know that you either flag, or downvote, or ignore the asses. (Or some combination.) You don't write a post to call them idiots, even if they are.

I've been around here a lot longer than you have. I do know, and I have, but sometimes nastiness needs to be called out.

Sure, but you know that you shouldn't call put nastiness by being nasty.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by DanBC »

etchalon wrote: post #184
DanBC wrote: post #171

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Since the world is full of pretty poor managers "don't swear at your boss" is pragmatic advice. It'd be nice if all managers had the skill to recognise that a bit of venting is probably healthy.

"Don't work for managers you can't swear at," would be my advice to the world :D

That's good advice for people who are in a position to chose who they work for. Is OP in that position?

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by sdoering »

puranjay wrote: post #99
sdoering wrote: post #75

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[rant on] Because in this filter bubble here you are not worth a dime, if you can't brag about how friggin' awesome you are - thats what twitter is for. [rant off] Imho he should apply for jobs, apply more and even apply more. Having studied literature, I have jumped ships from publishing to tourism (marketing analyst) to being a full time data analyst via doing the work and having a resume to show it. Having an appl…

Fellow literature student here. I'm very curious how you managed to shift to data analysis. I've made a successful shift to marketing, but technical work still eludes me.

I had always a knack for the technical stuff. While in school my main focus where natural sciences. You could say, I always had two hearts beating in my chest.

So when the chance arose, I first started doing some web analytics. As the data grew more and more (esp. in our internal tools) I needed more then excel. So I tried to learn a little bit of (in my case) python to help crunch bigger numbers.

From there I got to manage the technical side of an ad server, did a lot of project management and via a gig in online marketing as a "pure" web analyst I came to work in a digital agency as a so called data analyst. Most work is "classic" web analytics, some is work on bigger datasets (growing part of my work).

So basically I had a knack for math, science, empirical stuff, statistics and tried some programming (bad code, but code non the less) and that way I was able to jump ships. One day I will try to incorporate my love for literature/texts into the mix - maybe NLP or some things like that might be fun. We'll see.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by annnnd »

Mikushi wrote: post #185
vellum wrote: post #158

1.) The best time to find a job is when you already have one. Next time, find another job before you quit or make an ultimatum. 2.) Don't spend so much time thinking about why your company is screwing you. People job hop every 2 years, because it's the only way they'll get a 20k raise. Your salary will eventually hit a plateau as you move up, but early in your career, you shouldn't stay too long at one place. 3.) Don…

Right, blame the guy for being exploited like so many others. 1/ He did not quit or made any ultimatum. He acted on what was promised, nothing wrong with that. But right you should always lower your head and submit to the startups and their heads. 2/ Typical protection of abusive companies by telling employees who are being openly screwed : "Deal with it". Such a healthy advice, lets not question the ethics and worki…

This is not how I understood the parent. He doesn't put blame, he just gives advice (which is great btw).

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by wyclif »

DanBC wrote: post #202
wyclif wrote: post #192

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I've been around here a lot longer than you have. I do know, and I have, but sometimes nastiness needs to be called out.

Sure, but you know that you shouldn't call put nastiness by being nasty.

No, I don't know that. I think I did the right thing. Thanks for chiming in, though.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by sdoering »

wyclif wrote: post #198
sdoering wrote: post #75

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[rant on] Because in this filter bubble here you are not worth a dime, if you can't brag about how friggin' awesome you are - thats what twitter is for. [rant off] Imho he should apply for jobs, apply more and even apply more. Having studied literature, I have jumped ships from publishing to tourism (marketing analyst) to being a full time data analyst via doing the work and having a resume to show it. Having an appl…

No, Twitter isn't for bragging in this case. It's to follow other RoR devs and find out what they need help with. It's about leveraging Twitter to help you find jobs. Bragging isn't going to impress anybody, you have to let your Github do the bragging.

Well OK - whenever I tried to put twitter to some good use the ration between signal and noise just threw me off.

But maybe I just wasn't able to find the right strategy.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by Jach »

DanBC wrote: post #190
Jach wrote: post #187

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People are filtered all the time for BS reasons, e.g. there's a fairly well-known "I only hire lucky people" filter where a random half of the application pile is tossed out without a glance.

That "I only hire lucky people" is clearly parody. Noone actually does that in real life. I agree that many of the filters that people use are bullshit.

Fair enough. Though I still can't help but think there have been people out there who read the fable and then said, "That's a good idea, I'm going to try it."

(You've most likely also read https://web.archive.org/web/20120501193533/http://raganwald.... too, a point in which is that other BS filters act just like the toss-half one in that they aren't really useful when your qualified applicant proportion is small.)

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by johanneskanybal »

Mikushi wrote: post #185
vellum wrote: post #158

1.) The best time to find a job is when you already have one. Next time, find another job before you quit or make an ultimatum. 2.) Don't spend so much time thinking about why your company is screwing you. People job hop every 2 years, because it's the only way they'll get a 20k raise. Your salary will eventually hit a plateau as you move up, but early in your career, you shouldn't stay too long at one place. 3.) Don…

Right, blame the guy for being exploited like so many others. 1/ He did not quit or made any ultimatum. He acted on what was promised, nothing wrong with that. But right you should always lower your head and submit to the startups and their heads. 2/ Typical protection of abusive companies by telling employees who are being openly screwed : "Deal with it". Such a healthy advice, lets not question the ethics and worki…

What this man needs is good career advice and smarten up about life in general not some downward spiral of focusing on being victimized. I symphatize too but that's close to worthless if not straight up harmfull in this situation.

Re: I'm Begging for Work

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Post by nstart »

onerous2017 wrote: post #120

OP, I have been in a similar boat as you. Back in 2013, my daughter was born and within 2 days I was laid off from my position as IT Manager at a small MSP in Dallas. No college degree at the time, no savings, wife and I were not working. The one thing I did have though (fortunately) was experience in the industry - about 8 years of IT experience (dev, systems engineering, architecture, management). I freaked out ini…

Holy shit dude. My comment is OT but holy shit. That's a hell of a story. Good reminder to many of us that putting in active work on profiles (linkedin etc) will probably pay off even in normal scenarios. Thanks for posting this. I hope brokedev (OP) saw/sees it.
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