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by jameshush 3y ago
Reach out to people you've worked with in the past. After having five years of experience, you should have worked with at least a handful of people who need someone to fix another broken website. These could be managers, people on your
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by jameshush 3y ago
I don’t work for Automattic but after spending years trying to “save money” on wordpress hosting I agree just spend the extra cash for a proper managed soloution. Life is too short to spend optimizing page load for your marketing site when
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by jameshush 3y ago
Honestly, every time I move to a new city I just sign up for the closest gym near my house and take a random trainer from the gym. If I don't get along with them after 1-3 sessions I just ask to switch with someone else. 90% of the tim
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by jameshush 3y ago
Last two jobs I interviewed at give me take-home tests that took 8 hours to complete each. ...but both paid me a great amount of money to complete them so I’m not complaining at all. Paid take-homes are definitely my favorite way to intervi
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by jameshush 3y ago
Honestly, if you JUST want to optimize for money as a SWE leetcode + getting 3 competing job offers at FAANG is still the best use of your time than any side hustle. I recommendend asking your self “If I ALREADY had all of the money, what w
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by jameshush 3y ago
Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was
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by jameshush 3y ago
It depends on the business. I'm helping my girlfriend build her Chinese teaching business, pure service-based (I like to call it a Service as a Service business :P). A paid website template, Canva subscription, and a virtual assistant
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by jameshush 3y ago
I made this same move about a year ago. Went from an engineer manager (managing 20ish people) to a Solutions Engineer, and got the same pay (base salary was a dash higher, total comp was a dash lower because of the bonus structure I had bee
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by jameshush 3y ago
I’ve tried freelancing a few times, I never manage to make it work. The clients I find all end up paying less than a “normal” job so I end up going back to that. I’m working as a Solutions Engineer now. Its basically freelancing without sou
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by jameshush 3y ago
Exactly. Why be sneaky when you could go the tried and true consulting -> productized consulting -> product route without worrying about losing your reputation?
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by jameshush 3y ago
Thousands of engineering jobs have already been lost post 90's... to Squarespace/Wix/Wordpress etc. For some reason though, even more were created. I spent a week of time in my first internship creating a marketing page. I ma
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by jameshush 4y ago
Yup! That’s exactly what I meant. By the time a formal job posting has been written and a recruiter gets involved a hiring manager has generally asked everyone from their star IC to their mom’s hairdresser for a referral.
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by jameshush 4y ago
Hiring is VERY much still humanized. The vast majority of jobs go unposted. Friends get friends work. In the last seven days I’ve had three loose acquaintances ask me if I knew of engineers and designers looking for work in three different
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by jameshush 4y ago
If your goal is to build a product for your own startup business, the best stack is Google Forms + Google Sheets. Then getting on the phone and selling. If your goal is to learn the marketable skill of building web apps in 2023, you can&#x2
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by jameshush 4y ago
I love this story. I've told many people to start with a Google Sheet, so I am happy I can point to a concrete example of this strategy working in the future.
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by jameshush 4y ago
He started with the wrong goal in mind. The goal shouldn't be to increase the number of personal productivity hours. The goal is to move a company vision forward. The leverage you get by spending half as much money on a single full-tim
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by jameshush 4y ago
(I used to work at a company that "made" search engines). Almost every search engine on the market is either Google results or Bing results repackaged. Fun fact: because of legacy contracts, some search engines use results from a
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by jameshush 4y ago
I switched from managing a team of 20ish to becoming a Solutions Engineer (other job titles are Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect). It's pretty common to see ex-managers in this role because you still need to deal with people, but it
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by jameshush 4y ago
I've worked as a web developer for ten years on websites with millions of monthly views (e.g NFL, HowStuffWorks, etc.) while living in Los Angeles. I've also hired and managed a remote team of developers while living in Asia. I&#x
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by jameshush 4y ago
I grew up in Windsor, Ontario (right beside Detroit). The vast majority of my friends from there work at Amazon/Rocket Mortgage. On paper they make less than SF, but lifestyle wise they’re all crushing it. A large chunk of them have pa
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by jameshush 4y ago
Fresh out of university new grads were getting $100k/year base salaries there when I graduated about 11 years ago. Plus stock and bonuses. So for 3-5 years xp “normal” engineer it was very, very doable to have $300k total comp (stocks,
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by jameshush 4y ago
I think the moral of this story is to spend time thinking about what you _actually_ want and do _that_. I agree with Steve's advice here. If you don't want to be in New York/SF/Wherever... don't. But accept choices
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by jameshush 4y ago
I've been laid off ~1 month before a vesting cliff before. Along with a few other early employees. Looking back (this was 10ish years ago when I was still a n00b), they had definitely given me too much equity based on my experience. If
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by jameshush 4y ago
Get in a union shop. My father was making between $100k-$150k/year USD (we were in Canada) in a SUPER low cost of living area as an electrician in one of the car factories. He retired 10 years ago so I imagine the salaries have gone up
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by jameshush 4y ago
I'm helping my Chinese-teaching girlfriend expand her online teaching business. She has zero business background and zero tech background, but even then still managed to land some consistent students last year. This year I'm using
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by jameshush 4y ago
I’m friends with Youtubers in the rock/metal audio production space. I jump in every once and a while to help when their websites are having issues. They’ll regularly do 50/50 revenue split deals to white label VSTs and other audi
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by jameshush 4y ago
I signed up for classes. A speech writing one, and even a joke writing one. I’m in a writing group too for comedy, but it’s made my work writings excellent too. I’m an average-ish comedian but my work presentations are off the chart now.
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by jameshush 4y ago
Just pick one and start posting. It doesn’t matter where you start, it’ll take 100 posts/videos/presentations/whatever before you’re decent enough for people to pay attention anyway. I went to 2-3 open mic comedy nights a wee
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by jameshush 4y ago
Honestly I think I'll try this next week. I bet if you write "Turn this list of bullet points into a Jira ticket a React engineer would understand:" it'd get you closer than you'd think!
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by jameshush 4y ago
I set up a business entity, the USA company pays my business entity just like they pay Stripe, AWS, etc. I pay an accountant and deal with all the regulations myself (I live in Taiwan). Its a bit more hassle, and I technically have less pro

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