jcadam

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by jcadam 4y ago
And the CD-i!
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by jcadam 4y ago
I have an MBA, which I don't really use as a working software engineer, but nowhere else will you learn to take a clear, concise, one page paper (i.e., this is what we did and this is the result) and expand it to 10 pages of BS-laden c
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep, I've been surprised by the contents of my resume at an interview set up by a recruiter once. "It says on your resume you have extensive experience in X." "I do not." They also have a thing for stripping your na
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep, I blame Microsoft. Now these sorts of interviews are done even by companies writing pedestrian web apps that don't require hard-core CS knowledge. Yet they test every applicant on it anyway.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Got a job working on an old Ada system during the Great Recession (I was unemployed and desperate enough to take any job). Mom was kind enough to give me all of her old Ada books - apparently her employer (defense contractor) had sent he
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by jcadam 4y ago
There'll be plenty of legacy Java EE apps in need of maintenance. Not fun work, but it'll pay.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I eventually gave up on Word templates and now keep my resume in LaTeX. Neat and organized - not unlike this example only with more detail and nicer fonts :) Occasionally a recruiter will ask/demand I give it to them in MS Word - I&#x
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by jcadam 4y ago
I know. Not sure how to convince her to move along somewhere else. She wanders between my 2.5 acres and the neighbors around me. Price of living in the woods, I guess...
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by jcadam 4y ago
There's a moose cow and her calf hanging around my property since the spring. They are not scared of my ferocious labrador.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Had to bail when I was coming down a hill while classic/nordic skiing on a trail in KPB - moose standing right in the middle of the trail. Figured it was better to throw myself into the snow off the side of the trail rather than run s
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by jcadam 4y ago
I've lived in Alaska (Kenai Peninsula) about 18 months now. Haven't hit a moose yet (knocks on wood). Have had to brake a little hard a couple times in my F-150, though. There are "scoreboards" along some stretches of
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by jcadam 4y ago
You have a point. Another reason to prefer remote work.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I remember 2008. Workplaces get increasingly cutthroat when layoffs start looming. Coworkers sabotaging each other, whole teams trying to make other teams look bad, etc.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Well, I was working for a mortgage company and got cut already. The mortgage industry is def not the place to be right now.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> ... with a very beautiful looking for classic macOS users. Huh? this looks like OS X, not Classic Mac OS.
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by jcadam 4y ago
My wife worked in daycare when we first got married. It is low-paying, high-stress work with high turnover. Parents drop off sick kids, kids with behavioral problems, kids in the middle of custody disputes, etc. I'll bet most of the
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep, I never quit a job without a new one lined up. Because sometimes it takes several months to find something decent. Sometimes you don't have a choice. If you've been laid off, you may have to jump on the first thing that com
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by jcadam 4y ago
> You don't know how they will react, whether you'll be forced off interesting projects, put at the top of the layoff list, or similar. Yep, this has happened to me. So if I'm unhappy, I usually just start sending my resu
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by jcadam 4y ago
> If you've been working on a mainframe and your employer decides to retire it but is happy to put you on some front-end web stuff which you've never touched, that's probably going to be a tough adjustment that may not end
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by jcadam 4y ago
LOL, once spent a few days on SWE salary (along with a few other guys) physically moving server racks from one facility to another. Yes, small company. As a one-off that sort of stuff is fine.
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by jcadam 4y ago
It doesn't have to work every time, or even the majority of the time. If it works 1 time out of 10, they'll keep doing it.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I really only use icognito mode for development/testing - when I need a clean session. I definitely don't use it just to keep a site from appearing in my browser history.
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by jcadam 4y ago
That would make playing any sort of wind instrument quite a bit more difficult.
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by jcadam 4y ago
You should pick one up. Learning how to read music and play an instrument at the same time is good for the brain.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I've never seen anything close to $150/hr -- I'd jump on that if I did. $63-$80/hr is actually about what I'm seeing, which is less than I'd made from my last FTE gig (I have 16 yoe, mind you). When you consi
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep, I'm probably going to have to accept yet another paycut if I want to keep working. Peak of earnings for me was at about 13 yoe. Now it's downhill until I'm better off working retail.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I have 16 yoe and have been a senior software engineer since forever.
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by jcadam 4y ago
And some companies don't even have a "staff" title, just several levels of "Senior Engineer." Makes it hard when applying for a staff role at another company.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Contract rates are down though, less than what you would expect to earn as a FTE.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I was laid off last week. The previous rounds of layoffs at my employer were focused on sales and operations folks. The latest was in IT, seemingly focused on senior level engineers.

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