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Haus said:
And now I'm also dealing with this strange nagging almost depressing feeling, like leaving the job I know isn't a good fit, and I know I'm not really happy in now, is somehow still be "losing" at something. Which I can't figure out yet, but I'll chalk up to my brain being stupid.
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That's your natural aversion to change rearing its head. It is an emotion, so just double and triple check your math, get permission and encouragement from your wife, and do whatever you end up doing.
 
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That's your natural aversion to change rearing its head. It is an emotion, so just double and triple check your math, get permission and encouragement from your wife, and do whatever you end up doing.
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Wife has already said to do "what will make me happy". Still debating if this is in that same vein as when a woman tells you "Do whatever you want" or not. ;)

But seriously, she's got my back either way, and one reason I do dearly love her.

But yeah, it's fear/hatred of change. I was raised by my post depression era grandparents and my grandfather could never fathom why people change jobs/companies so frequently in my line of work. Probably part of that rubbing off on me.
 
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So much agile we spend more time than i ever did in waterfall figuring shit out
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For all of them were deceived, there was one and only one true development cycle, forged in the fires of....*checks Google* Large Systems??? Not IBM, not Bell Labs...?
 
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So at this point I'm getting more and more convinced I'm just not going to be able to find another developer/engineer role. Been looking since June and only finally got a recruiter to respond to me in early this month saying they'd get me an interview setup with a company which had a position that was a good match. Dunno if it's just the holidays, but they were supposed to get back to me a couple weeks ago and won't respond anymore. Other than that, I've had literally nothing. Is there any other profession I could use some shit mid-tier coding skills at? I don't know what to do at this point. Going to be just looking for stocking/warehouse/gas station jobs for now since my unemployment is tapped, but I'm at a loss for what to do career-wise, now.
 
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So at this point I'm getting more and more convinced I'm just not going to be able to find another developer/engineer role. Been looking since June and only finally got a recruiter to respond to me in early this month saying they'd get me an interview setup with a company which had a position that was a good match. Dunno if it's just the holidays, but they were supposed to get back to me a couple weeks ago and won't respond anymore. Other than that, I've had literally nothing. Is there any other profession I could use some shit mid-tier coding skills at? I don't know what to do at this point. Going to be just looking for stocking/warehouse/gas station jobs for now since my unemployment is tapped, but I'm at a loss for what to do career-wise, now.
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There are plenty of entry level customer service rep jobs that are wfh out there. Not great pay, but solid benefits. If your room at mom and dad's place is soundproof you could swing that easy peasy. Better than grocery store or warehouse jobs, and if it's for a company with a tech root you might be able to move up from there.

If you are able to sociopathically lie to yourself and others, you can always go into sales. Lots and lots of life insurance agencies thirsting for any warm body to try to shill their shit right now. I took a minor side quest down that path last month for a few weeks. I will never do that again, but it is something out there.
 
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Koushirou said:
So at this point I'm getting more and more convinced I'm just not going to be able to find another developer/engineer role. Been looking since June and only finally got a recruiter to respond to me in early this month saying they'd get me an interview setup with a company which had a position that was a good match. Dunno if it's just the holidays, but they were supposed to get back to me a couple weeks ago and won't respond anymore. Other than that, I've had literally nothing. Is there any other profession I could use some shit mid-tier coding skills at? I don't know what to do at this point. Going to be just looking for stocking/warehouse/gas station jobs for now since my unemployment is tapped, but I'm at a loss for what to do career-wise, now.
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Can you post your resume? Obviously remove specific details.

I don't have any roles, but maybe something with your resume could use some tweaks
 
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Koushirou said:
So at this point I'm getting more and more convinced I'm just not going to be able to find another developer/engineer role. Been looking since June and only finally got a recruiter to respond to me in early this month saying they'd get me an interview setup with a company which had a position that was a good match. Dunno if it's just the holidays, but they were supposed to get back to me a couple weeks ago and won't respond anymore. Other than that, I've had literally nothing. Is there any other profession I could use some shit mid-tier coding skills at? I don't know what to do at this point. Going to be just looking for stocking/warehouse/gas station jobs for now since my unemployment is tapped, but I'm at a loss for what to do career-wise, now.
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Have you considered opening a daycare for Somali children?

But seriously, it's getting rough out there for any coding folks, and the only light at the end of the tunnel I am seeing is a small portion of companies are starting to realize that Claude kinda sucks at generating consistently workable code and they spend so much time troubleshooting AI Slop that they might as well hire humans to do it. But I am not sure how that helps in your current situation.
 
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That moment when you check under the keyboard for a piece of paper with the users password and instead it says Painal VII: Valkyrie in Training
 
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I mean it was obvious to me back in the day when I was doing uber that they give new users priority access to high paying trips and then slowly reduce that priority.

The first trip I ever did when doing uber was taking someone from san bernardino to san diego. Made 400 bucks for the trip which was pretty good at the time.

after that it just got shittier and shittier. The only time it would be worth it is if there was a festival or rave in town and you waited in the area to get trips. I would make over 1k a night when that happened.
 
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At my office our CEO has a "Chief of Staff." Now, the guy holding this role was the lead financial analyst for 5 years. He knows just about everything about the company's finances and exactly how to hunt down the right people and things to provide the CEO and the rest of the C-Suite the best information. I've always liked him and we work well together, he comes to me a lot for various deep dive requests.

Point being he has a productive role and it was just an odd progression from Senior FP&A Analyst to this instead of to FP&A Manager or something similar. Probably a good decision as it gets him in the door with the executive track. Maybe in a bit of an indirect way.

Now, our CEO is a woman and she brought on a bunch of other girl power executives. This has not really effected my job in any way. Buuut her Chief HR woman called "Chief Performance Officer" for some dumb reason. Well, she decided she needs a Chief of Staff and a staff too! This has been lol to me because no other C-Suite has any of this. Not even the more important ones like Chief Revenue and Chief Product. So the Chief HR woman has a girl power staff of 5 people now. I have no idea why leadership let her do this. Hopefully I will never have to speak to any of them.
 
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So the Chief HR woman has a girl power staff of 5 people now. I have no idea why leadership let her do this. Hopefully I will never have to speak to any of them.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Because those 5 people now need things to do, so they are on a mission to find some kind of cause, or, for a better term: "crusade."
 
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I basically never use apps for the exact same reason I never made any social media accounts. I thought about the concept for 2 seconds and said "What would I do if I were an evil overlord", and immediately decided nope. What sucks is that life is slowly pushing me to the point where I'll probably have to give in some. Haven't ubered once in my life, but a trip I'm going on its going to be almost unavoidable that I'll have to take a few.

People in the young generation are going to have to learn the hard way to become stingy misers, because AI dynamic pricing is going to butt fuck anyone else into monetary extinction.
 
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