Love who you want to, and if said love relieves your nasal congestion, even better.

You should definitely inspect your poops if for nothing else, health monitoring.

That’s some high risk wishful thinking. A destabilized US needs to be contained very quickly or it could take the entire planet with it.

It wouldn’t be a collapse. It would be a transformation into the most heavily armed fascist dictatorship in the history of the world. If we’re lucky, it stays isolationist, but it likely won’t.

Women who were mothers during the ‘One Child’ era:

True, but life goes on…long after the fear of livin’ is gone.

What I see is the developer who’s left after multiple rounds of cost cutting layoffs and subsequent exodus of anyone qualified, that knows they are only there because they are willing to work for the least amount of money, and are willing to endure abuse from their sadistic manager, not knowing how to systematically debug the mountain of accumulated issues, and keeps trying random stuff hoping that anything will somehow work.

Christ almighty, this is perfect. Literally my life for the past twenty years, except the I start by assuming they did something dumb, so I would have checked the lid first. Then promptly they spill it unto their lap and I have to clean it.

Oh, I didn’t take offense, but what you wrote is also a very common attitude (which I assume is why you wrote it). If I had been playing with other people’s money rather than my own, and if I hadn’t bet my career on the crazy venture, I might have been more cavalier with how I did things. More, short term keep the investors happy. I guess those are the two big culprits. Unsustainable tactics and a lack of consequences for those making the decisions.

I’m rambling. Sorry.

I guess it is subjective. My company shouldn’t exist, much less thrive for two decades. As it stands now, we are already fully booked three years out and mostly booked five years out. If long term, stable, ever increasing income is less attractive than fast short lives cash, then I am a poor example.

Also, I never said I was poor or that I am not doing well for myself. I just said that my employees make a lot more than me.

If you want you company to succeed, you must invest in it. More often than not, the best capital investment is human capital. Invest in your people.

I have a lot of entrepreneur and VC friends. One of them always says that it isn’t about the money. He says “Some people have fun playing video games, board games or Dungeons and Dragons. This is my Dungeons and Dragons”.

He says it a lot so shout out to whomever can guess who he is. Hint; he’s Austin based.

And avoid balconies.

I will always remember the Gojira and Celine Dion performances. Just, fucking epic. The trolls have already been forgotten.

I think you’re missing the main context of the post, which is experience. It doesn’t matter if you were not an expert when you applied. What matters is that you are an expert when it is time to be, which includes the interview.

That said, common sense tells you that this is all about “additional skills” like specific softwares, not core technologies. If you’ve never heard about Java and you apply for a Senior Java Engineer position, you’re probably not going to do well.

I have been working in tech since ~1995. I also have been in a hiring position since 2002 and own the top firm in our field. Here is my advice; lie.

Let me clarify. A lie is only problematic if by the time you start in that new position, you do not have the skills to back it up. If you can do the job and do it well, no manager will ever give a fuck about what you put in your resume.

PS: In most cases, the school you graduated from will only matter for your first job. In most cases, your GPA will never matter.

You love to see it.

Depends where you look. ~$260k still gets you a decent house in most places. The problem is that the same house was under $150k in 2019.

Absolutely. In 2020 (early days of the lockdown) I picked up a “new old stock” 2019 4x4 Sprinter Passenger van for $46k. I spent $5k Minimally converting it, and it has been my travel vehicle ever since (my wife and I do not fly).

The point of my response was that assuming that someone choosing to live in a van is because they can’t afford a house (as the previous comment implied) is incorrect. There are a tone of those Revel vans out there. Some people are choosing to live the van life because they want to, not because they have to.

The most popular of these vans costs as much as a house.