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But you're living in US. In US you got paid crazy salaries for programming. Why do you work at failed startups? Just get some job with crazy salary, work there

• oumua_don17 3y ago
  As GP refers to >> neurodivergent/ADHD/autistic >> paid crazy salaries for programming may be it's difficult to go through the typical interview loops for such jobs as they are not designed to be inclusive for ND etc despite all the diversity and inclusion BS (more often than not) at such workplaces.
  • zackmorris 3y ago
    I just wanted to interject that my struggle wasn't with interviews, but in suspending disbelief in order to focus and work in ways I didn't believe in. Because I could trivially automate most of the work I'm forced to do, so I struggle to find meaning in work itself. And when I did automate, they just gave me more work at the same pay until I burned out. So it's just as important not to take a job you can walk onto. Work for someone you want to be someday. My struggles were largely due to moving back to the city nearest to where I grew up after college, which wasn't a tech hub for 20 years, although it's becoming one now. So I've been on a career odyssey. Now most of what I know is obsolete, but I'm having a hard time adapting to my new reality after so many decades of negative reinforcement. I agree with Paul Graham about moving to where the energy is. Network effects are everything.
  • astrange 3y ago
    I think calling FAANG programmers neurotypical is a bold statement.
• hsjsbeebue 3y ago
  At a FAANG. Depends if you can jump the requisite hoops and also stick it out.