IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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ShakyJake
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Have you considered a Udemy course?
https://www.udemy.com/complete-python-bootcamp/
I've really enjoyed their courses. They are often kept up to date and have a forum where you can ask the instructor questions. Right now they are having a sale, and the course I linked is only 12 bucks. You can't beat it for the money.
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Who does consulting work on the side and do you use an LLC so you don’t have to do self employment taxes?
This doesn't really help if your LLC is a pass-through. In order to reduce self employment tax you have to treat your LLC as an S-Corp and keep profits in the corporation (paying yourself less than you bill), which brings a host of complications. For a sole proprietor consulting setup it's generally just easier to take it on your Schedule C and pay the tax. You can make up far more difference by structuring a solo-401k and maxing your employer-side contributions. Last time I ran the numbers you can protect your first $52.5k of income from any tax at all as long as you're able to save it.
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TJT
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Yesterday found out how my old manager, the one who got laid off, basically shit in everyone's cereal on the way out. If you weren't one of his sycophant bootlickers you got your comp spiked for, "insubordination and lack of initiative." Which was about 1/3 of the team.
I mean, I butted heads with the guy from time to time and while his absurd requests did annoy me at times. I did most of them. The super absurd ones that were outright ridiculous and extremely difficult to accomplish, if they could be at all, and provided minimal return on this time I argued with him about. Eventually he would drop it and I would just move on with whatever. But the entire time he was docking me and several others who also argued with him in that absurdity by spiking our comp packages for 2018 to a level I have never seen in my 5 years with the company. I was shocked.
The interim director who was telling me this had some of his notes and my big offenders were two email chains I remember. She only had his notes and no real context for them. I pulled them up and showed her that this is what he is using to dock me ~$15k in a single year. I told her that this puts me in a situation where it would have been significantly better if I was just laid off. She agreed and was cool and all but her hands are tied and she has to abide by the old manager's marks even though he was let go. Because to me, "insubordination" is a pretty serious way of phrasing something. Maybe that is just me being ex-military and all but god damn. I asked why i wasn't just fired earlier in the year and she also tells me he had nothing to indicate he was trying to.
What an asshole.
I mean, I butted heads with the guy from time to time and while his absurd requests did annoy me at times. I did most of them. The super absurd ones that were outright ridiculous and extremely difficult to accomplish, if they could be at all, and provided minimal return on this time I argued with him about. Eventually he would drop it and I would just move on with whatever. But the entire time he was docking me and several others who also argued with him in that absurdity by spiking our comp packages for 2018 to a level I have never seen in my 5 years with the company. I was shocked.
The interim director who was telling me this had some of his notes and my big offenders were two email chains I remember. She only had his notes and no real context for them. I pulled them up and showed her that this is what he is using to dock me ~$15k in a single year. I told her that this puts me in a situation where it would have been significantly better if I was just laid off. She agreed and was cool and all but her hands are tied and she has to abide by the old manager's marks even though he was let go. Because to me, "insubordination" is a pretty serious way of phrasing something. Maybe that is just me being ex-military and all but god damn. I asked why i wasn't just fired earlier in the year and she also tells me he had nothing to indicate he was trying to.
What an asshole.
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a thousand times this. When I got screwed by my old boss, I didn't realize how badly until after my comp statement came out. I took a new job 5 weeks later... regrettably in the same company, otherwise I'd have made more moves to piss him off.
ShakyJake
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It's stories like this that make me realize I have it so damn easy. There is never any pressure to get stuff done within crazy time constraints. If I make a reasonable argument I can usually sway opinions. We've never had to "work over the weekend" to make sure a release gets out in time. If a release is a bit late, oh well that's fine.
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I'm surprised you're still there to be honest. There's a lot of writing on the wall that things are not going to end well
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moonarchia
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If it's something that will bug you long term, start getting resumes out there. Find a new job and make sure the new boss's boss knows why when you leave.. "She wasn't willing to make it right, so I had to. Bye."
TJT
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TJT
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While I understand this. They just got rid of 6000+ people. Why not get rid of me then? I would have actually preferred that.
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I don't think the comp package thing math's out. If I were to say they would have paid me more overall than the comp package after like 4 months or something. I mean I have been trying to leave since I started looking for jobs seriously in like November, don't get me wrong. So I will leave the second I find one, absolutely. But it seems exceptionally insane that they lay off people on my own team and simultaneously keep me just to create a situation where I want to leave and somehow cost them less money because of this.
I wanted to leave already so I really didn't care about the comp detail this year. It just pissed me off at how fucking petty it was. On the upside I'll never see that guy again so... that's cool.
I did apply to that NC job you mentioned awhile back
alavaz
. They never responded lol.
I wanted to leave already so I really didn't care about the comp detail this year. It just pissed me off at how fucking petty it was. On the upside I'll never see that guy again so... that's cool.
I did apply to that NC job you mentioned awhile back
alavaz
. They never responded lol.
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That's not all that insane, I watch it happen all the time. It's also a matter of how the money is accounted for on the backend. Contract buy-outs aren't opex or something stupid... I don't get corporate finance/accounting.I don't think the comp package thing math's out. If I were to say they would have paid me more overall than the comp package after like 4 months or something. I mean I have been trying to leave since I started looking for jobs seriously in like November, don't get me wrong. So I will leave the second I find one, absolutely. But it seems exceptionally insane that they lay off people on my own team and simultaneously keep me just to create a situation where I want to leave and somehow cost them less money because of this.
I wanted to leave already so I really didn't care about the comp detail this year. It just pissed me off at how fucking petty it was. On the upside I'll never see that guy again so... that's cool.
I did apply to that NC job you mentioned awhile back
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