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“Two and a half years ago I quit my last tech job.” (2016)
- khedoros1 9y agoI've spent a lot of time posting in a tech help group for the last 4 years or so. I'm one of the more prolific posters there. I know that when I leave, a few people will wonder "where did khed1 go? for a bit. Then it won't matter. I worked at my current employer for 7 years, then was laid off 2 days before my son was born. I spent a few months of my severance package as paternity leave, then started looking again. I took a position back at the same employer, but in a different group. 2 months later, 2/3 of the office was laid off. The work doesn't care about you. The company doesn't care about you. It's a job. Do the work. Keep up with new developments; you'll need the knowledge when you need to find a new job.
- phantom_oracle 9y agoI read through this and then wanted to understand the author more, so I looked here: http://garann.com/dev/index.html http://garann.com/dev/index.html This got me thinking: 1) The author has been blogging for almost 10 years 2) The topics are narrow enough to only interest a subset of programmers (frontend JS programmers ~ so it seems) 3) It wouldn't surprise me that apart from the author, there is at least 1 article on this blog that only crawlers/bots/scrapers have 'read' You have to wonder whether: maintaining your github streak, keeping your blog fresh, being super-active in OSS, et al. has any real value; except to secure a new job or keep up with the "myth of meritocracy" (as the article states) is worth your health/sanity/circle-jerk-cycle.