I have quit my job
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I have quit my job
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#2"If you can let go of the goals, you can quite enjoy the act. Counter intuitively, the result is often much better."
This applies to many things in life.
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#3Sounds like the job just treated devs as replaceable, identical "units", but the author comes across as an individual. The management would hate any sign of life from the "units".
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#4Sounds like the job just treated devs as replaceable, identical "units", but the author comes across as an individual. The management would hate any sign of life from the "units".
It's pretty common in outsourcing companies.
Even in a lot of product based companies tbh. I had to push quite a bit to get people to stop referring to SWEs as "resources"..
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#5Could more people use taking a break, for no particular reason, and not necessarily to work on anything - just taking a break for taking a break's sake? I think so.
Especially hackernews people who are overwhelmingly more likely to be privileged enough to be able to do it compared to most.
"...leisure is time away from work, not facilitating it.
By viewing work as something we do to support our leisure time, rather than our hobbies as something to lower our stress so we can get back to work, we can actually start enjoying our lives. (I know, wild idea.)"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/smarter-living/the-case-f...
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#6"If you can let go of the goals, you can quite enjoy the act. Counter intuitively, the result is often much better." This applies to many things in life.
I'm embracing the spirit of wandering in my life, and there is something special about knowing what is a priority versus what is joyful work.
For example, I'm currently working on a low-latency durability solution for my SaaS (shameless plug: https://www.adama-platform.com/ ). Do I need to be working on this? No... I should be working on the consumer side. However, I'm currently getting decent results. Granted, I'm having to wade through a bunch of optimizations, but the potential is right there: 1 ms commit time.
Just need to figure out why it craps the bed every 30 seconds or so. It's super fun! And, I'm already got 8x the performance of RocksDB.
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#7"If you can let go of the goals, you can quite enjoy the act. Counter intuitively, the result is often much better." This applies to many things in life.
...there’s a deeper reason... so many people don’t have hobbies: We’re afraid of being bad at them. If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for the next marathon... When your identity is linked to your hobby — you’re a yogi, a surfer, a rock climber — you’d better be good at it, or else who are you?
Lost here is the gentle pursuit of a modest competence, the doing of something just because you enjoy it, not because you are good at it... It steals from us one of life’s greatest rewards — the simple pleasure of doing something you merely, but truly, enjoy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-...
...leisure is time away from work, not facilitating it.
By viewing work as something we do to support our leisure time, rather than our hobbies as something to lower our stress so we can get back to work, we can actually start enjoying our lives. (I know, wild idea.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/smarter-living/the-case-f...
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#8This guy seems smart and ambitious but has a very romantic/naive mindset. A job is an exchange of services, never get it confused with your own mission or "dream".
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#9Sounds like the job just treated devs as replaceable, identical "units", but the author comes across as an individual. The management would hate any sign of life from the "units".
when i spent not quite a year working for (non AWS) Amazon, a document was leaked that such treatment was actually business plan. It was beyond obvious before the document was leaked.
I contrasted the structure of several years of Apple engineering with the insanity of this business plan, which put roughly a dozen layers of non technical middle managers above our team of people with pretty hardcore technical degrees and who were dependable and capable, yet who were treated like fungible assets.
I became resolute to quit as soon as possible...but it DID take months to believe my perceptions of the stupidity were valid.
Life's too short to spend working for oligarchs.
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#10I left my job when covid started and I do not intend to return into the workforce ever. I run some small projects and make a bit of money on it, although it is much less than what I did with the 9-5 job I have more money now than before.
That's because Working has a cost:
- living in an expensive area with high rents
- transportation to the company
- Eating out (No time to cook)
- Taxes!
- Health (Sitting around so much got me neck issues)
In the end you end up not making any significant money and just playing into the pockets of some greedy landlord or company.