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I love programming but have burned out on doing it for others a few times now. I once jumped to fly cargo for UPS. I gotta say. It's nice to remember how good

I love programming but have burned out on doing it for others a few times now. I once jumped to fly cargo for UPS. I gotta say. It's nice to remember how good we have it. Doing a harder job for 1/10th of the pay refilled my empty gratitude bucket very quickly. :) Today I gripe about waking up at 8am to do another useless standup meeting, but once in awhile, I remember waking up at 3:30am to meet the UPS jet and wait until they loaded my little Beech 99 so that I could fly through low clouds and ice so that the folks in roseburg, eugene, and la grande could get their amazon prime tchotchkes. Then waiting around in the bumblefrick motel for 6 hours for the UPS truck to return that afternoon with the unwanted returns of last week's amazon prime tchotchkes. Yeah programming for others sucks. But it sucks less than a LOT of other things, and pays a whole lot better. Get while the gettin is good. When you want to run screaming in the other direction, may I suggest a pause, a walk, and a reflect first -- lest you kill the golden goose and never be able to get it back. $0.02 :)

lieblingautor 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what level of prior experience with flying aircraft did you need to work as a cargo flyer?
brailsafe 2y ago
> Get while the gettin is good Now more than ever, people may be wondering if the goose has already been killed, or whether there's any good getting left to get. Not OP, but it's pretty tough right now to see a near future where _any_ income can be derived from applying my existing skills in a web/software related discipline, and the question of switching to a trade is a scary but potentially practical one. A year or more into having zero income, and I wish I had a fallback like flying for UPS tbh. It was already hard to get in if one wasn't already in before 2023, now it's an existential crisis.

lieblingautor 2y ago

Out of curiosity, what level of prior experience with flying aircraft did you need to work as a cargo flyer?

brailsafe 2y ago

> Get while the gettin is good Now more than ever, people may be wondering if the goose has already been killed, or whether there's any good getting left to get. Not OP, but it's pretty tough right now to see a near future where _any_ income can be derived from applying my existing skills in a web/software related discipline, and the question of switching to a trade is a scary but potentially practical one. A year or more into having zero income, and I wish I had a fallback like flying for UPS tbh. It was already hard to get in if one wasn't already in before 2023, now it's an existential crisis.