notsurenymore

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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> The tech market isn't doing very well. I get that, but why can’t I find anything else. Years ago, when I was working retail jobs, they would hire fucking anyone. I got stuck working with stoners, alcoholics, and just general clown
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’d love to, but I don’t think I’ll be getting any aid. When I tried some years back, I was offered nothing. I wasn’t making crazy money, middle class income for sure, but a fraction of what’s considered “good” tech money and I was denied a
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Ask HN: Where Are All the Jobs At?
71 points by notsurenymore 3y ago|77 comments
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I watched this a while back and it was one of the few videos I’ve seen recently that really impressed me: https://youtu.be/mdKst8zeh-U?si=cvD_1d6vmwEzxDas
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> am so confused why HN is so tolerant of startup grifting, but dismisses cryptocurrency as an absolute evil I mean.. it’s a site associated with a notable VC organization.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Do you not pay your power bill or something?
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Just the market/timing maybe? For comparison, I’ve worked in a similar tech stack and never had any issues whatsoever finding a job until maybe late 2022. You don’t list any dates, but I had no problem getting interviews and recruiters
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Eh, I’m a mid level dev, and have worked for those sorts of companies in the past, but even they won’t hire me anymore. I’m not sure if they filled all their open roles off the layoff or what. For example I used to work for a F500 retail co
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
This is also why you get resume driven development.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> Now just let me collect my plum consulting fee for this bit of genius business management advice. Come on, you’ve got to at least offer them something other than what they’ve already been doing for years.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> I firmly believe that any dev can get in if they practice enough leetcode problems. That’s the east part, but if your entire resume is non tech, then FAANG recruiters don’t reach out. (I’ve only ever had one FAANG recruiter ever reach
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a job listing for a “statistician” outside government roles.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
In that case I think local temp agencies are what you’re looking for.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
They tried to teach us both in school, but neither really stuck.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Just to expand a bit since I didn’t have the time when I posted, I’m looking for a new career and aircraft mechanics are moderately in demand in my area. There are two Part 147 AMTS schools nearby, one is a program for high schoolers exclus
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I thought about it at one point, but then I saw the pricing for the training you need and my jaw dropped.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
But there’s still the problem. If you established you career doing X and you’re preferred niche is Y , you aren’t going to get to use Y at work because it’s simply irrelevant to you’re career doing X . Let’s say in a run of the mill ent
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> but unless you also write fintech in OCaml, I bet you’re better than the interns at some niche in software development. The difference of course is someone at Jane street could like match or exceed you at your niche if they cared, wher
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
My experience is no one gives a shit if it happens outside of work hours. Maybe if you can establish yourself to pseudo-celebrity status within the particular niche?
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> then establish your career in something you're passionate about regardless of how lucrative it is Yeah this is the part I’m stuck at. You can’t just “establish your career in something you’re passionate about”, lucrative or not.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I haven’t noticed any major difference, but I don’t use it a ton. My biggest gripe is that the search on the mobile app is terrible (mostly because it doesn’t let me sort by date), but I think that predates the acquisition.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Regardless, I don’t see how making perfectly legal bad choices means you’re more likely to commit crime. Perhaps we should also deny jobs to people who get divorced or who eat an unhealthy diet, as those can be an indicator of “poor choices
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’m still trying to figure out how one becomes a “generalized specialist”. I would seem that once you establish yourself as a generalist, it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve specialization.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
The knowledge is available sure, but I’m finding out more and more how meaningless it is. I could maybe learn most of what interests me even outside CS. The knowledge is there, but what I’m missing is the opportunities. For example, I didn’
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> its almost total absence of practical examples for using what was being taught was a huge damper on my interest in it, for example Ag yes, notably, I just could not care about calculus when I was in high school. I understood it had pra
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Yes and no. I could do an online degree, but not for anything I’d be interested in going back to school for (at least nothing terribly useful). I’ve actually been surprised at some of the online offerings. There’s a decent state school
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I wish I had taken it seriously and gone… actually I’m not sure. I had a different attitude coming out of high school, I was more naive and arrogant, and probably wouldn’t have made much of it. If I could go back now, though, I have a much
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> When I end up in jobs I routinely hear "wow you can do all of that? why are you here?!" My guess is that this isn't reflected well on your resume. I've done a lot of interesting things and impressed a few people mys
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
How do you find a niche though. I can definitely go looking at jobs and find things that intrigue me, but they’re so rare, that if I waste my time trying to specialize, there will be no jobs by the time I’m “good enough”. I find it incredib
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I might actually care about programming again if I had the chance to work on things like that. Very cool, from an intern at that!

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