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Nobody but yourself has to give you permission for this. It's an honest living. Lots of people who would give you shit about this are in the VC-funded "Uber eat
by stevejb 7y ago
Nobody but yourself has to give you permission for this. It's an honest living. Lots of people who would give you shit about this are in the VC-funded "Uber eats for dog treats" world and may have an over-inflated sense of the social value their jobs are supposedly creating.
- lowiqengineer 7y agoThat's fair. I think what I work on is infinitely more important even though it's a piece of a larger puzzle given how rapidly we're adding to the bottom line (just look at the last earnings call - ). But those are the people that are still negotiating compensation packages of hundreds of thousands more than me, and seem to get everything through life, from Harker to Stanford to Google/Stripe to YC W20, etc. I'd rather be like them than be considered a "blue collar engineer" as I currently am considered by my peers.
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- amf12 7y ago> than be considered a "blue collar engineer" as I currently am considered by my peers. I might be completely wrong about this, but I feel you have low-self esteem and you are tying your sense of self-worth to where you work. Whenever I have heard something negative about Amazon is that they overwork people and there is no work life balance. But almost all of them have said it was worth it in terms of growing and learning. If you feel that what you are working on has enough impact, and you are learning a lot. Put your head down, fuck what others think of Amazon, and grow as an engineer. After that a lot more opportunities might open for you.
- lowiqengineer 7y agoMy WLB is good to great, and is for everyone in my greater organization. My problem is that I don’t get off sites to Cabo or free massages.