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That doesn’t sound liveable. How do you pay for rent?

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
I worked for over 30 years, lived frugally, avoided debt, and saved a significant chunk of my salary. As a result, I reached the point, where I don't need to work, if I don't want to. I want to work. I love what I do. I don't need to make money at it. I also like to help people, so I found people that want to help people, and can't afford much. It really is a shame. I have a fairly significant set of skills and experience. Pretty much what a startup would need, to make a new product a reality. I know how to make very high-quality software that ships. I did it for my entire career. I also do quite well on teams, and have been a problem-solver, all my life. The folks I'm working with now, pinch themselves, every day.
- DantesKite 5y ago
  Have you thought about building small projects that could earn you a little bit of income on the side? Doesn't necessarily have to be an overwhelming product, but just a way of practicing and exploring work.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    I prefer doing them for free. Most of the work I do, is self-education. I love to learn, and I have been maintaining my competency in shipping work for decades (Which often means that I am not right at the "bleeding edge." Shipping is usually a couple of steps back from that). If you check out my SO Story[0], you'll see a whole boatload of published modules. They are -each and every one- totally "ship-ready." I produce them as if they are to be commercial-grade products, with the appearance of a major-league brand -even the experimental projects. There are also complete source code bases for a number of published (and many, since, deprecated) apps on the Apple App Store. I've been shipping apps continuously, since 2012. I've provided full source code for all of them. I don't promote them at all. I don't really care. I have no idea if anyone uses them. I have a few stars, and a couple of forks, but I've not seen my stuff appear anywhere (It's MIT, so I assume I'd be noted in the README -HAH!). Many of these are 1-source-file development utilities, with dozens of files of testing code, wrapped around them. I like Quality. I'm my own best customer. I tend to be pretty skeptical of most of the available dependencies, out there, so I like to write my own. The project I'm working on now, is non-trivial. It's the kind of thing that normally takes a team of at least five engineers, running 24/7 on Red Bull, to do. I do well at these kinds of things. It's coming along nicely, and will be ready in a few months. I also wrote two of the servers I use. It is not (currently) open-source, but I may, sometimes, spin an open-source module out of it. I just did one, a couple of weeks ago (LGV_Cleantime). [0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall

I worked for over 30 years, lived frugally, avoided debt, and saved a significant chunk of my salary. As a result, I reached the point, where I don't need to work, if I don't want to. I want to work. I love what I do. I don't need to make money at it. I also like to help people, so I found people that want to help people, and can't afford much. It really is a shame. I have a fairly significant set of skills and experience. Pretty much what a startup would need, to make a new product a reality. I know how to make very high-quality software that ships. I did it for my entire career. I also do quite well on teams, and have been a problem-solver, all my life. The folks I'm working with now, pinch themselves, every day.

DantesKite 5y ago
Have you thought about building small projects that could earn you a little bit of income on the side? Doesn't necessarily have to be an overwhelming product, but just a way of practicing and exploring work.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  I prefer doing them for free. Most of the work I do, is self-education. I love to learn, and I have been maintaining my competency in shipping work for decades (Which often means that I am not right at the "bleeding edge." Shipping is usually a couple of steps back from that). If you check out my SO Story[0], you'll see a whole boatload of published modules. They are -each and every one- totally "ship-ready." I produce them as if they are to be commercial-grade products, with the appearance of a major-league brand -even the experimental projects. There are also complete source code bases for a number of published (and many, since, deprecated) apps on the Apple App Store. I've been shipping apps continuously, since 2012. I've provided full source code for all of them. I don't promote them at all. I don't really care. I have no idea if anyone uses them. I have a few stars, and a couple of forks, but I've not seen my stuff appear anywhere (It's MIT, so I assume I'd be noted in the README -HAH!). Many of these are 1-source-file development utilities, with dozens of files of testing code, wrapped around them. I like Quality. I'm my own best customer. I tend to be pretty skeptical of most of the available dependencies, out there, so I like to write my own. The project I'm working on now, is non-trivial. It's the kind of thing that normally takes a team of at least five engineers, running 24/7 on Red Bull, to do. I do well at these kinds of things. It's coming along nicely, and will be ready in a few months. I also wrote two of the servers I use. It is not (currently) open-source, but I may, sometimes, spin an open-source module out of it. I just did one, a couple of weeks ago (LGV_Cleantime). [0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall