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by granshaw 4y ago
> It's one thing to think you want a fun and exciting career when you become rich and famous (I mean, who doesn't?) I just want the rich part, thank you very much
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by granshaw 4y ago
If you go solely for the true contracting, long term staff aug type engagements then you can completely fill your pipeline and it correlates well You’ll need to worry about finding new clients at most twice a year, and can easily find gigs
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by granshaw 4y ago
If you’re quite experienced in a certain tech (nothing special, for example just Rails) 150+ is quite doable even subcontracting or on long 6mos+ engagements where you don’t worry much about finding clients I subcontracted for about 6mos wi
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by granshaw 4y ago
Isn’t the inverse also true? That the contractor is incentivized to create extra work or drag things out when charging hourly? I suppose deadlines mitigate this…
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by granshaw 4y ago
Hell, less baggage _in general_ … they’re not gonna get offended easily, have adamant work styles, wanna just play politics etc They just come in and get shit done
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by granshaw 4y ago
Faang still pays better… But below that contracting beats everything else, assuming you can get a fullish pipeline
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by granshaw 4y ago
A Blind-like site for contracting would be awesome too (Blind is a site where devs mainly discuss salaries)
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by granshaw 4y ago
What kind of work if you don’t mind me asking? And do you get embedded in a team like their other engineers or solo?
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by granshaw 4y ago
It’s right there in the article, they mention running a startup is one example since it’s high autonomy and high stress. Having both created a startup and worked a cushy job, I can relate
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by granshaw 4y ago
They are well on their way of climbing onto the next rung of the manufacturing ladder and manufacturing more complex items with higher margins that can absorb higher wages …and transitioning more to a service economy …no?
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by granshaw 4y ago
Plus selling barely functional products under a DONGJOY etc brand isn’t fraud, only trying to sell a counterfeit Prada bag under the Prada brand is (and only in Western countries at that)
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by granshaw 4y ago
A faang acquired firebase which will wither and soon a faang will acquire supabase, and so the circle of life goes on
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by granshaw 4y ago
I dunno, have you seen some of the other replies here? =) Seems like lots of ppl still can’t fathom something better than an interesting, high paying, but still fulltime job as their “ideal”, or don’t have any passions they’d rather spend t
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by granshaw 4y ago
Few people understand how much of a golden ticket this would be… Do you have any aspirations to build something of your own at all, whether profitable or not? Well you’ve now been given 300k/year of funding without giving up any equity
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by granshaw 4y ago
Yeah it’s the “pretending to work” part that’s soul crushing. If you could be explicit that “this is what I need to do this week, it’ll only take 4 hours. The rest of the time I’ll be available but I won’t do make-work”, that’d be awesome.
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by granshaw 4y ago
Yes humans individually are absolutely horrible at long term thinking, it’s just part of our nature. I wonder if we’re evolving to get better at that, if ever so slightly
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by granshaw 4y ago
Hopefully with wellness and life outside work being in trend this will lessen
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by granshaw 4y ago
Wait, small/mid contracting companies (aka agencies) paying more than Google? Are you based in the US? Care sharing the company name(s)?
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by granshaw 4y ago
Yeah I’d say once someone’s into their first or second job, maybe late twenties, those grandiose dreams are left behind
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by granshaw 4y ago
Yes. Plus having someone Cook for and clean after me. Oh and maybe pay the bills too Being completely serious ( I think)
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by granshaw 4y ago
It’s also the most rails like node framework (is it still?), which emphasizes DX, expressiveness, convention over configuration, etc which in my book is a plus
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by granshaw 4y ago
Keep an eye on moisture of rice or ingredients too, the less moisture the better to avoid a soggy end product
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by granshaw 4y ago
Thanks that’s probably good advice Pineapple fried rice here I come
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by granshaw 4y ago
> I do think a lot of "cooking at home is too expensive" is actually "I don't want to cook at home and would rather just get takeout." Well, yeah, it shouldn’t be a surprise that many don’t like the actual acts o
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by granshaw 4y ago
Ergonomics is usually crap too
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by granshaw 4y ago
I’m assuming you’re a dev - your love for programming / SW engineering hasn’t waned huh? Been in the industry for more than a decade and am suffering from CRUD / new tech churn fatigue. Also have had a taste of having my own produ
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by granshaw 4y ago
XD After reading the rest of your comment I’m surprised you didn’t lead with “our stand ups are at 5am…”
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by granshaw 4y ago
It’s the same in Asia - you don’t get the constant “do you like your job?” type questions - everyone knows it’s just that - a job.
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by granshaw 4y ago
Bingo! Why aren’t more people complaining about the _schedule_ part of fulltime employment!? Work would be so much more tolerable if there wasn’t damn standup at 930 every morning
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by granshaw 4y ago
Even then, Good on you that you actually love your job, most aren’t that lucky

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