jameshush

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by jameshush 2y ago
Triple down on referrals. With 20 years of experience, you must know someone who knows someone who’s hiring. I recommend reaching out to everyone you’ve ever worked with with a message like: “Hi $NAME! I saw you’re doing $THING on $SOCIAL_M
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by jameshush 2y ago
"I choose to be fired" is quitting in my books. There aren't enough hours in a week to work two 40-hour-a-week jobs if you also want to eat and sleep
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by jameshush 3y ago
"We want to test modifying two lines of this header bidding library against 5% of traffic ONLY IF we bought that traffic from an Outbrain Ad, not a Facebook Ad. If revenue increases after 24 hours we'll enable it on traffic we bou
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by jameshush 3y ago
Don't build this in-house if you can help it. I worked at an adtech company that had our own feature flag system built. Absolute pain to work with. To be fair, it had been built 6 years prior, and I worked there 4 years ago, so there w
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by jameshush 3y ago
Text ten previous co-workers the following: ``` Hi $NAME! I saw on $SOME_SOCIAL_MEDIA_PLATFORM you're doing $SOMETHING and I wanted to say hi! I'm looking for an Android developer job, do you know anyone hiring? ``` Only send ten
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by jameshush 3y ago
I did this as a Canadian in Canada, and now I live in Taiwan and still work for a US company. I pay tax to whatever country I was physically present in while doing the work. There was one year I spent 3 months in California and 9 in Canada
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by jameshush 3y ago
I'm a non-US citizen Canadian living in Taiwan. These are available, you just need to jump through a bit more hoops.
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by jameshush 3y ago
SPY until I had a year's worth of salary invested. From there, I had more "personal" personal finance questions (How do I treat these company stock options? How do I deal with obscure SPAC IPO while I live abroad in Asia?), s
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by jameshush 3y ago
I can chime in here: For me, it was a combination of things, here's the order I've tried: 1. Lift weights 2-3 times a week. 2. Avoid caffeine after 10:00am. 3. Stop eating like an idiot. 4. Go to the doctor and get blood work done
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by jameshush 3y ago
Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .
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by jameshush 3y ago
What's your use case? If it's for live video calls, I'd recommend using a vendor to handle this (and every other WebRTC edge case you can think of) for you. I'm a bit biased because I work for Daily.co, who does this. Ba
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by jameshush 3y ago
I perform stand-up comedy a few nights a week. I completely relate to this. Whenever I "bomb" a joke now I'll say something like, "Well everyone, you just witnessed the first, and last, time I will ever say THAT joke&quo
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by jameshush 3y ago
I'm a software engineer who switched over to working beside Sales as a Sales Engineer. Referrals are the key to getting customers or getting a job. Reach out to previous co-workers, managers, vendors you've spoken to, anyone. Ther
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by jameshush 3y ago
It's not that much more of a challenge to find a job online before you move to that country. That's how I moved to the USA originally and then moved to Taiwan. If you're a software engineer, apply for a FAANG or a Unicorn sta
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by jameshush 3y ago
As a Canadian, if you're going to the trouble to move, aim for the USA first. The salaries are just so much higher. Canada is a solid backup plan if you can't get into the USA after trying. I left Canada shortly after graduating t
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by jameshush 3y ago
I went from running the engineering team at an online virtual events company, to trying to start my own agency to cold-applying to a WebRTC vendor with online virtual events companies as customers. The key was having experience in the busin
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by jameshush 3y ago
I have a couple of co-workers who have similar stories as you. 20 years in with some management experience, and they don't care about being the VP of Whatever. Solutions Engineer is a great role for someone who CAN manage but doesn&#x2
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by jameshush 3y ago
I was in the same boat. Tried starting my own agency. Had a bit of success, but I was spending a huge chunk of my time just chasing money down. Then I stumbled upon a way to have my cake and eat it too: Becoming a Solutions/Sales Engin
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by jameshush 3y ago
I agree. Incredibly simple but I’ve seen people do exactly this for 4 months after a layoff and get into FAANG companies.
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by jameshush 3y ago
I mean... you don't HAVE to, you're right. However, hiring for most engineering roles is a filtering problem rather than a sourcing problem. I'd rather hire a Javascript engineer who'll at least _pretend_ to be excited a
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by jameshush 3y ago
On top of that, if it's a big enough deal, most salespeople at other cloud providers (GCP, Oracle etc.) will gladly pay you to migrate. They'd probably even throw one of their Solutions Engineers at the problem and do it for you f
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by jameshush 3y ago
This is the resume template I've used over the last 8ish years: https://www.careercup.com/resume It doesn't hurt to get someone to review your resume if you're not getting bites. If you can find a friend&#x27
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by jameshush 3y ago
I worked at a FAANG company. My co-worker hadn't graduated High School. I recommend applying and grinding leetcode if you aim for a SWE role. Two years SWE experience is enough for them to give you an interview with a cold application
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by jameshush 3y ago
I was running the engineering team for an online virtual events company. Afterward, I quit and tried to freelance for a year (generally a pain in the butt unless you have a clear plan). Here's what I did: 1. Get REALLY specific around
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by jameshush 3y ago
Have you considered becoming a Solutions or Sales Engineer? I switched from engineering management to freelancing/consulting and back to working for The Man as a Solutions Engineer. Honestly, it's all the upsides of consulting (ge
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by jameshush 3y ago
Every human buys with emotion and then justifies with "logic" after the fact. I know this, and I still just paid thousands of dollars on a rock for my future wife's finger ;-).
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by jameshush 3y ago
We have a few options for monetizing on the web: 1. Sell stuff (e-commerce, subscriptions, services). 2. Sell ads (every website that's free except Wikipedia). 3. Ask for donations (Wikipedia). I'm tongue and check for numbers 2 a
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by jameshush 3y ago
You mean well so I gave you an upvote :-). I'm a Westerner living in Asia. The name my British parents gave me is James Hush. Every family member calls me Jamie. My legal Chinese name is 許杰, if you tried to write that the "Western
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by jameshush 3y ago
58k/year in Taiwan is also considered crazy good money. The average income in taiwan is about $58k NTD/month (aka $1900ish USD) https://www.statista.com/statistics/319845/taiwan-average-mo...
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by jameshush 3y ago
I'm a Western who has lived in Taipei for almost three years. I use Google Translate every day of my life. It's helped me book restaurant reservations and talk to my doctor. I also grew up in Canada, have British parents, and live

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