tomreece

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An Idle Brain Is the Devil's Workshop, please keep me busy(bipolarco.de)
1 points by tomreece 10y ago|0 comments
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by tomreece 10y ago
This made me laugh out loud. You're fearless!
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by tomreece 10y ago
Nope, south east US. Trying to be vague here for privacy.
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by tomreece 10y ago
The offer was 20k more than my base salary already. Asking for even more seemed crazy to me. I have controversial opinions on how much money developers make already, probably stemming from my imposter syndrome. Asking for more money did not
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Now I Fear Exploratory Interviewing While Employed(bipolarco.de)
39 points by tomreece 10y ago|83 comments
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Question Everything(bipolarco.de)
1 points by tomreece 10y ago|0 comments
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by tomreece 11y ago
How Software Companies Die - Orson Scott Card https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/jokepg/joke_19970213_01.txt
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by tomreece 11y ago
Did you read the post? I LOVE programming. I HATE programming for someone else as a career. For fucks sake.
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by tomreece 11y ago
> The author is clearly an idiot. Wow. I didn't realize Hacker News folks were like redditors. The 65k comes from the fact that I had to pay tuition and living expenses. My family is from a small town. The nearest college was 2 hour
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by tomreece 11y ago
I don't understand why this discussion is about entitlement. I thought this was the american dream? You work hard, you make something of yourself. Things go your way. Things are going well enough my way, but I'm not happy. I don&#
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by tomreece 11y ago
I didn't know if I'd like testing or not. But I thought I would try something new. Comparing my daily work with the coders around me, I still think I'd pick testing because they literally just glue too many shitty api's
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by tomreece 11y ago
> Just knowing that you can quit, if you're not happy, changes how you interact with your employer. I think if I KNEW this, I'd have a significantly different perspective on things.
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by tomreece 11y ago
At my last company I had the opportunity to write some code to fetch data from an api and display messages on 15 Daktronics signs for a bus transit station. That was cool and pretty low level for me, because I had to send bytes to this sign
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by tomreece 11y ago
Awesome story friend. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!
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by tomreece 11y ago
Excellent.
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by tomreece 11y ago
I often feel like I'm surrounded by programmers who just come to work every day, write as much good enough code that they can, and then go home. They seem really happy. I want to be like them. But my care gets in the way. My desire to
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by tomreece 11y ago
Thanks for the advice. My first job was full stack Java backend (SpringMVC) and jQuery hell front end. Second was full stack, Python backend, AngularJS front end. My new job is writing Protractor tests for multiple AngularJS applications. I
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by tomreece 11y ago
I don't want more money. I want to be happy.
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by tomreece 11y ago
Some of those people make just as much money as I do once you factor in the fact that they don't pay a huge chunk of it to student loans. Step-father-in-law is a truck driver, makes only slightly less than money than me.
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by tomreece 11y ago
Indeed it is. Haven't I accrued debt, worked hard, and earned the right to be in a job I should be happy at? I deserve that. So do you and so does every body else.
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by tomreece 11y ago
They're all making glorified crud apps, stuff that I could make solo. I'm not excited by it.
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by tomreece 11y ago
This is my third try at improving my situation, each time the money has increased and is helping me pay that debt off. So I'm getting closer on that front, but I don't want the money. I want to be excited to wake up every morning
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by tomreece 11y ago
I picked all three. The first was a medium sized startup (90 employees, mostly sales, only 5 devs). The second was a small startup (15 employees, 5 devs). My current job is a huge hosting company with like 3000+ employees in my location.
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by tomreece 11y ago
Third. I've only been at it for 6 years now. I'm 27. I'll correct the title for you to be "Older, Tired, and Bitter"
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Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me(bipolarco.de)
73 points by tomreece 11y ago|120 comments