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Tell me more about how you are a semi truck driver on hacker news. Where you once in the tech industry? Do you just find it interesting here?

a3n 6y ago
Used to be in tech. Rage quit my last tech job when I was past my fresh date.
- ubertoop 6y ago
  Wow. I would love to hear more about this. A lot of people on here suffer from burnout in some form or another, and I would imagine very view actually cut the cord. Do you have a writeup anywhere about your experience?
  - a3n 6y ago
    I sort of do. I've sent hundreds of emails and pics home to the fam. I aim to put some of them up. Eventually. Oh, here. I sent one of those to my boss, and it got forwarded and shared internally, and with my permission the company put it up on their Facebook page. I'm not on Facebook. If it's still up, I imagine you can find it by searching "Swift Transportation" and "Aaron". As for burnout ... You'll probably miss the money. I'm making half what I was, and I was nowhere near SV salary expectation. EDIT: I don't speak for ... disavow all knowledge ... etc etc
TheRealSteel 6y ago
I'm not them, but I'm a non-programmer on HN. I'd love to be a professional programmer but I'm simply too stupid. I continue to teach myself and learn in my spare time.
- mrtweetyhack 6y ago
  I, for one, am happy you are learning. Always best to start a project and implement whatever you are learning. Best way to learn.
- nightowl_games 6y ago
  Programming is really about persistence, focus and dedication. I'm not naturally very intelligent but I am extremely stubborn so I simply keep trying, keep reading, keep googling until I solve the problem.
  - TheRealSteel 6y ago
    That describes me perfectly. I feel as if I've taken months to do stuff a normal person would've prototyped in an afternoon and it's all thru sheer stubbornness. I'm hoping I get good enough to be employed but I still have a long way to go.
- zebnyc 6y ago
  I second what nightowl_games is saying. I hope you are not equating programming with an ability to crunch through leetcode problems. There is more to programming than that. There are plenty of companies out there which hire folks without putting them through the leetcode hazing ritual. Cheers
  - TheRealSteel 6y ago
    Thankyou. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't have a hope in hell of passing any of the programming interview questions I see posted. I'm trying. So far my biggest problem has been not getting interviews because recruiters pretty much slam the phone down the nanosecond they ask me how many years professional experience I have so far and I answer honestly. I'm trying to get some projects into a usable state so I have a few things to point to and say "well I created this and this", but I'm... I'm not fast at this, at all. Currently stuck on trying to pass an array of floats from C++ back to C# and getting a bunch of random values and NaNs

a3n 6y ago

Used to be in tech. Rage quit my last tech job when I was past my fresh date.

ubertoop 6y ago
Wow. I would love to hear more about this. A lot of people on here suffer from burnout in some form or another, and I would imagine very view actually cut the cord. Do you have a writeup anywhere about your experience?
- a3n 6y ago
  I sort of do. I've sent hundreds of emails and pics home to the fam. I aim to put some of them up. Eventually. Oh, here. I sent one of those to my boss, and it got forwarded and shared internally, and with my permission the company put it up on their Facebook page. I'm not on Facebook. If it's still up, I imagine you can find it by searching "Swift Transportation" and "Aaron". As for burnout ... You'll probably miss the money. I'm making half what I was, and I was nowhere near SV salary expectation. EDIT: I don't speak for ... disavow all knowledge ... etc etc

TheRealSteel 6y ago

I'm not them, but I'm a non-programmer on HN. I'd love to be a professional programmer but I'm simply too stupid. I continue to teach myself and learn in my spare time.

mrtweetyhack 6y ago
I, for one, am happy you are learning. Always best to start a project and implement whatever you are learning. Best way to learn.
nightowl_games 6y ago
Programming is really about persistence, focus and dedication. I'm not naturally very intelligent but I am extremely stubborn so I simply keep trying, keep reading, keep googling until I solve the problem.
- TheRealSteel 6y ago
  That describes me perfectly. I feel as if I've taken months to do stuff a normal person would've prototyped in an afternoon and it's all thru sheer stubbornness. I'm hoping I get good enough to be employed but I still have a long way to go.
zebnyc 6y ago
I second what nightowl_games is saying. I hope you are not equating programming with an ability to crunch through leetcode problems. There is more to programming than that. There are plenty of companies out there which hire folks without putting them through the leetcode hazing ritual. Cheers
- TheRealSteel 6y ago
  Thankyou. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't have a hope in hell of passing any of the programming interview questions I see posted. I'm trying. So far my biggest problem has been not getting interviews because recruiters pretty much slam the phone down the nanosecond they ask me how many years professional experience I have so far and I answer honestly. I'm trying to get some projects into a usable state so I have a few things to point to and say "well I created this and this", but I'm... I'm not fast at this, at all. Currently stuck on trying to pass an array of floats from C++ back to C# and getting a bunch of random values and NaNs