the_only_law

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by the_only_law 3y ago
Will I get my seconds counter back at least?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Don’t know many smart people. I’ve interacted with some, followed others, but admittedly I’m not sure where most of them work. Offhand one person I know works at some small noname company working in niche industry they enjoy. Not sure of mu
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I've started to narrow down based off of what I'm genuinely interested in. How do you do that if you’re past work is disconnected from what you’re interested in.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Learning COBOL is the easy part. My understanding is the hard part is becoming familiar with insanely expensive, proprietary mainframe platform that’s you’ll find in most COBOL work. I know IBM has some sort of self training material, but I
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Even if you’re in an area where $60k is decent, I’m not sure it’s as great as it sounds. I remember talking to an electrician turned Uber driver a couple years ago. He was making ok money, but with insane hours and in shitty environments. I
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Same here. I didn’t even plan to go into the industry, but kinda just did it because it was the best (or only) option I could think of at the time. I had earlier plans, but they fell through and I was stuck. In retrospect, I could always sh
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Gov jobs? Maybe state/local (though depending on where you are you'll be in for one hell of a paycut), but from what I've seen, federal jobs are the chooisest beggars out there.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I finally found work a month ago, and of course as soon as I got a job I got a dump of emails from places I applied to in the fucking spring/summer either with a generic rejection (not sure why I generic ATS rejection requires months)
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by the_only_law 3y ago
With a stroke of luck, I'll be doing something completely different.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
It's been trending this way for a couple years at least, but yes its been particularly bad in the past few months. Feels infested with schizoposters and their the idiot reply guys and the 50 year old reactionary tech dweebs who sudden
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Must be all those stimulants they pop finally driving to psychosis.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Ah got it. For a second i thought markdown support had been expanded.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Huh, since when did HN have strike through support.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Nope. I lost my job in late 2022 and spend most of the year unemployed. Basically nullified all my goals and at this point I'm not sure if the bigger ones will even be achieved at this point.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I’m trying to figure out to find a niche. There a very few interesting niche roles that aren’t either looking for already established domain experts.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I remember some years ago, when I had an android phone and was using Firefox on it, Google Images would render differently on Chrome and Firefox. On Chrome, I could long press to get the context menu to download an image. If I did the same
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I don’t think I had any particular job in mind when I was a kid. I was interested in a number of things (for example I’ve always enjoyed studying various times/places in history and liked to teach biology books when I was a kid), but n
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by the_only_law 3y ago
It’s mostly just this site and the SV delusion it’s connected with. I’d bet if you ask random Americans, they would have no idea who Altman even is.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
But you have no meaningful wealth or power. Of course no one wants to be your lackey or ass kisser. Hypocrisy is to be expected.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> When you leave the company they won't have to pay for your accrued vacation days. Is this legally required? I worked at one place where this was the case and I was paid out for unused time upon leaving, but at another I was told I
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by the_only_law 3y ago
The funniest part of that whole debacle was watching side liners in HN get their ego personally hurt when it was exposed.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> There are dozens of other things you might be great at, and every minute you're spent flogging the dead horse of becoming a coding genius, you're missing out on the opportunity to practice something you're really talente
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by the_only_law 3y ago
A referral is the only reason I have a job. Spent a years getting rejected for roles that seemed a perfect fit at all stages of the hiring pipeline. These were from mostly cold apps and recruiter for jobs doing work aligning very closely wi
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Perhaps sufficient as educational tool. Has Oberon ever been a thing outside academia? I’ve heard about some Modula2/3 stuff out there in the wild, but not Oberon.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
When’s the last time you had to do it. I never had issues either… until I was laid off in late 2022.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I never had much problem with applications in the last, but in the last job search it was futile. I’m still just now getting rejections from jobs I applied to months ago which seem a perfect fit for my resume. I even applied to a place I wo
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Yeah I had a situation where I had an offer for Job A, but really preferred Job B (Job A required me to move which I really didn't want to do). The recruiter for Job B gave me the impression that the interview process was going to be q
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> don't think most people set out to make mediocre media. Heh I’m not sure. I’ve been following the drama around CA and total war recently and the company seems to have set to do exactly that. Pump out mediocre recycled crap as long
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> often I think that I have a job that any person could do with a few months of training I occasionally think that too, but then I remember trying to introduce programming to people who couldn't even figure out how to save a text fi
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> This seems like a weak survey that they are trying to turn into a Social Trend. I tend to lean towards this whenever I see an [insert generation] [insert social trend] article.

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