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Every senior software engineers dream

by dumbaccount123 4y ago

mr90210 4y ago
Lol, NO!
moomoo11 4y ago
until they hit engineering manager and then its a big house in the suburbs lol
lagrange77 4y ago
It was really my dream for a long time. But taking account the current geopolitical transitions, it may continue to be merely a dream for a some time.
- RivieraKid 4y ago
  What do you mean?
  - playingalong 4y ago
    A war started by Russia and general lack of safety going there? (Forget the legal aspects)
    - itsyaboi 4y ago
      Middle of Siberia is about 5 thousand miles from Ukraine, if that is what you mean. Sort of like refusing to live in New York because of all the Brazilian cartel violence.
      - seabrookmx 4y ago
        Except the Brazilian cartel violence doesn't stop US airlines from getting parts..
      - playingalong 4y ago
        Just to clarify... I'd rather be afraid of Russian govt and it's forces in Syberia than of Ukrainian attack.
    - lagrange77 4y ago
      Exactly.
ROTMetro 4y ago
As someone who did this and moved to the Rocky Mountains but grew up in the Bay Area'ish (Santa Cruz), I love my small town, but man do I miss the city. It's way easier to get away to the countryside when you have city money, harder to do the reverse. Also for unsocial geeks it's a strange social change. Instead of being anonymous at for example restaurants or stores, you know everyone, so everything has much more social interaction than the big city. On a personal level it wasn't great, but the childhood my kids got, camping in actual wilderness instead of car camping, boating every day after I got off work, camping at wilderness boat only campsites where we had to swim our gear to shore from our anchored boat, catching brook trout with grasshoppers simply tied to the end of reeds (I was amazed that worked, though the stream was so packed with trout they could've just grabbed them though that would be illegal), seeing every wild animal with the exception of porcupines (this frustrated my son no end. Also, scariest animal to the kids? Grouse and beavers (when swimming), and yeah, wolves howling at night when camping). Picking huckleberries having to wear bear bells. Skiing all winter (kids unlimited pass was like $125 so cheaper than seeing a movie every weekend in winter, and it included the bus pass from the bottom of the mountain so we could just drop them off in the morning and meet up with them for some night skiing at the end of the day). I like to think while I messed up a lot that that gift of a childhood was special. But it is a harder transition than you would think, especially for someone who in not comfortable with themselves. Funny thing about going away and finding yourself, you have to be ok with... yourself. Or else self loathing and self destruction sets in.

Every senior software engineers dream

mr90210 4y ago

Lol, NO!

moomoo11 4y ago

until they hit engineering manager and then its a big house in the suburbs lol

lagrange77 4y ago

It was really my dream for a long time. But taking account the current geopolitical transitions, it may continue to be merely a dream for a some time.

RivieraKid 4y ago
What do you mean?
- playingalong 4y ago
  A war started by Russia and general lack of safety going there? (Forget the legal aspects)
  - itsyaboi 4y ago
    Middle of Siberia is about 5 thousand miles from Ukraine, if that is what you mean. Sort of like refusing to live in New York because of all the Brazilian cartel violence.
    - seabrookmx 4y ago
      Except the Brazilian cartel violence doesn't stop US airlines from getting parts..
    - playingalong 4y ago
      Just to clarify... I'd rather be afraid of Russian govt and it's forces in Syberia than of Ukrainian attack.
  - lagrange77 4y ago
    Exactly.

ROTMetro 4y ago

As someone who did this and moved to the Rocky Mountains but grew up in the Bay Area'ish (Santa Cruz), I love my small town, but man do I miss the city. It's way easier to get away to the countryside when you have city money, harder to do the reverse. Also for unsocial geeks it's a strange social change. Instead of being anonymous at for example restaurants or stores, you know everyone, so everything has much more social interaction than the big city. On a personal level it wasn't great, but the childhood my kids got, camping in actual wilderness instead of car camping, boating every day after I got off work, camping at wilderness boat only campsites where we had to swim our gear to shore from our anchored boat, catching brook trout with grasshoppers simply tied to the end of reeds (I was amazed that worked, though the stream was so packed with trout they could've just grabbed them though that would be illegal), seeing every wild animal with the exception of porcupines (this frustrated my son no end. Also, scariest animal to the kids? Grouse and beavers (when swimming), and yeah, wolves howling at night when camping). Picking huckleberries having to wear bear bells. Skiing all winter (kids unlimited pass was like $125 so cheaper than seeing a movie every weekend in winter, and it included the bus pass from the bottom of the mountain so we could just drop them off in the morning and meet up with them for some night skiing at the end of the day). I like to think while I messed up a lot that that gift of a childhood was special. But it is a harder transition than you would think, especially for someone who in not comfortable with themselves. Funny thing about going away and finding yourself, you have to be ok with... yourself. Or else self loathing and self destruction sets in.