@cucumbur
Software Engineer / CS Nerd in Seattle
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lol i feel sorry for the narcissistic dinosaur who lost his way from alt.computers.coderants in 1996 so I'll let you have your victory by not further engaging your amphetamine-fueled rant / "old man yells at clouds". how many dilbert strips are tacked up to your wall btw?
There’s no way to put this better, but I need to comment on the dogmatic, outdated advice here... it’s tech fundamentalist ludditism that comes from “old man yells at clown” types who think their opinions are precious wisdom and facts. It is “common sense” from times when tech nerds ruled the internet, debating about clock speeds (which they never truly understood) or getting mad that people were using Ruby and Python. I would expect to see on slashdot or HN when I was a young teen.
The breaking point was that my job transformed into "Fullstack" to "Azure + Devops + tiny HTML/CSS changes" and was constantly forced to context switch, never could learn anything, and when I asked for help in the Azure Support forum internally so I could do my job (most help resources are not for "contractors") someone gave an incredibly mean comment - including making fun of my misspellings and some jumbled words that I had as a result of sleep-deprived brain from being sleepless and tired from this awful experience.I replied with sarcastic derision and a complaint that this is the exact type of culture that everyone claims to be fighting and apparently that was TOO much! There is so much more to it. God I'm cynical now but I have to make some projects and a personal website to get back in the game before I run out of money..... soon
Well, that posts was made by me. They really did ruin my life. Got my contract terminated with 0 notice at 5pm on thursday and told that I could meet my """"boss"""" from the contracting company to get my stuff that was in the office. I'm sure she left plenty of stuff but whatever. Terrible experience. And now I can't pay rent. Please learn from my example. I am probably going to write a medium article about it that's a bit more vague
Normally I write a lot more but I'm so tired and loopy from being kept up by the weight of this decision all night. heres a few more fun facts until I can properly edit that: I love hamsters bu there are no good pet stores in all of seattle. I took up skateboarding a coguple months ago and its the best therapy I've ever had, and not being able to because of weather and work really sucks. I'm from a collegetown admist cornfields in Illinois - where I grew up and then studied Math & CS and for a time East Asian Language and Culture, but dropped that because some community college credits wouldn't transfer. I live with my girlfriend and it's the only thing keeping me same right now. I am really thinking about the viability of developing premium or prescription mac / iphone / apple watch apps because I am a tech/smarthome/gadget/automation/remote control/etc obsessive, and I have a giant list of both app ideas as well as games. (particularly using AR - more in an abstract form than ARKit, which wasn't around when I thought these up). As much as I want to develop my one killer game idea, I struggle so much between deciding to write it natively or in unity that I'm putting it off... (lol for thinking i can support myself financially developing apps for the first time)
Hi! I'm a mid-levelish JS/fullstack/database dev in Seattle, along with many many othe things (I consider myself a mathematician and I specialize in graph theory, love functional programming and Haskell, love PLC). I was hear a while ago and loved the concept but my most recent jobsearch ended up taking too much of my time. However, I realized that my current job is terrible for me - just a 180 degree difference in less than a day. So I'll probably short be asking for advice on that.... I'm at a loss as to what I should do as this is a real crossroads in my young life. Oh, I should mention, I have had bad experiences with both a startup and a very large tech company in the area I live - they didn't start out selling books if that helps. Makes a career in this industry seem impossible even though I have the skllls, education, motivation, and passion to create software I'm proud of. Because of this I have no trust in any company no matter what they spout about diversity and inclusion or something. I also struggle with attention disorder, depression and anxiety from a mild to moderately extreme degree in addition to having nerve pain from cancer surgery on my neck when I was 15. Unfortunately this means that most "diversity" and similar culture groups will exclude me, which has led to my current desparation. additionally, I'm really really damn sick of having to use windows and the entire office suite every day as well as being a second class employee. interns get more perks and access/priveleges for code summer camp than I do for singlehandedly fixing, maintaining, and building a piece of software that a yearly internal company prestige event runs on. love seeing ae headline or something and find the reference to it in the article and get stupid angry over the hipocrisy