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Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?

3 points by ud0 10y ago

What important career choices did you make in 2016?

herbst 10y ago
Quit my job to work on my own stuff. stuff i actually care about
- voidz 10y ago
  That's great. I hope it will be rewarding. It probably will be. I've quit most of what I was doing to dedicate myself as a stay at home dad to our newborn son. Best thing ever, it's a great kid. And frankly I'm doing a pretty damn good job, better than I imagined beforehand. I know it's socially unacceptable to toot your own horn, but I just did it anyway, so ner.
  - herbst 10y ago
    nah man thats cool. I think every kid deserves a dad almost always at home. At least for the first time. And sure it is rewarding, even if i dont manage to build a successfull business. I also digitalnomad what is more experience than i ever asked for.
- ud0 10y ago
  care to share what it is you are working?
  - herbst 10y ago
    I own a few content websites that make money with adsense what is what i am living from right now. I am mostly working on more of those. One that recently frontpaged here is https://ascii.li https://ascii.li
    - ud0 10y ago
      Impressive. Out of curiosity, how did you come up with so many Unicode emoticons? crowd-sourced?
      - herbst 10y ago
        I wish, thats usually the issue with any of my sites. Classic chicken egg problem. I've got submitted 4 emojis in over a year now. I data mined them actually from github gists and blog posts and added a few which i thought were missing. Then i paid my little sister to do the tagging :)
ud0 10y ago
Quit job where it wasn't clear what my role was and took up another focused as a front-end developer (remote), decided I didn't want to work as a remote developer any more and took up another full-time job as a front-end engineer for a big Co in Europe. Never been to Europe before lived all my life in west-africa so I'm very excited.
vivaamerica 10y ago
moved to US from London. Instant 100% pay rise for same role. Yeah yeah US has its problems but more money always helps. Until UK gets its head around paying devs properly it's a waste of time there.

3 points by ud0 10y ago

What important career choices did you make in 2016?

herbst 10y ago

Quit my job to work on my own stuff. stuff i actually care about

voidz 10y ago
That's great. I hope it will be rewarding. It probably will be. I've quit most of what I was doing to dedicate myself as a stay at home dad to our newborn son. Best thing ever, it's a great kid. And frankly I'm doing a pretty damn good job, better than I imagined beforehand. I know it's socially unacceptable to toot your own horn, but I just did it anyway, so ner.
- herbst 10y ago
  nah man thats cool. I think every kid deserves a dad almost always at home. At least for the first time. And sure it is rewarding, even if i dont manage to build a successfull business. I also digitalnomad what is more experience than i ever asked for.
ud0 10y ago
care to share what it is you are working?
- herbst 10y ago
  I own a few content websites that make money with adsense what is what i am living from right now. I am mostly working on more of those. One that recently frontpaged here is https://ascii.li https://ascii.li
  - ud0 10y ago
    Impressive. Out of curiosity, how did you come up with so many Unicode emoticons? crowd-sourced?
    - herbst 10y ago
      I wish, thats usually the issue with any of my sites. Classic chicken egg problem. I've got submitted 4 emojis in over a year now. I data mined them actually from github gists and blog posts and added a few which i thought were missing. Then i paid my little sister to do the tagging :)

ud0 10y ago

Quit job where it wasn't clear what my role was and took up another focused as a front-end developer (remote), decided I didn't want to work as a remote developer any more and took up another full-time job as a front-end engineer for a big Co in Europe. Never been to Europe before lived all my life in west-africa so I'm very excited.

vivaamerica 10y ago

moved to US from London. Instant 100% pay rise for same role. Yeah yeah US has its problems but more money always helps. Until UK gets its head around paying devs properly it's a waste of time there.