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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
That’s awesome but also a masters is a very different beast than starting a business IMO. It’s pretty defined (even with a thesis, in comparison) whereas trying to start a successful business is constant double guessing, pivoting, hustling
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
That’s correct. I’ll add more details soon
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Yes, all the "it's hard" that you hear from others – yeah you have no idea until you actually experience it. So glad things improved for you. Really once you're a dad, the only choice is to adapt or divorce. Call it copi
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Totally. I expected to feel this intense love that would help with the difficulty of it all, and it didn’t happen. I also didn’t get any kind of surge of extra energy driven by this great new responsibility- you’ll have to make do with what
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Losing ~ALL your free time can hurt alot mentally, esp if you had very specific life goals like starting a business and escaping the 9-5 (vs generic ones like travelling the world etc), you likely have to give those up, and that can be very
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
What he really meant is it’s a great career choice financially (see the supporting extended family sentence after that) And utility? Come on now. Yes it might be doing much less actual innovation than before but compare that to building awf
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
The amount of time and effort people spend looking at others instead of themselves is maddening
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
We need UBI and less dependence on private enterprises for basic human needs like income to survive and healthcare Would give both companies and individuals more flexibility and dynamism
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Many 9-5ers minds are always thinking of how to escape anyways, so at least you have something tangible to think about if you already have that business
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
You’ve just described almost all publicly traded companies and startups too. Hate the game, not the players.
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Try 175k, that’s more realistic in the current environment
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
It must be really weird both for the FAANGs themselves and their employees - if laid off there’s only a handful of other companies one can go to to get similar total comp, and worse, many of them aren’t hiring right now So getting laid off
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
The fact that TikTok is still allowed to run amok when the PRC has their hands all over it and also shows completely different content to Chinese users is the greatest irony and crime here
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
How much of a TC cut did you have to take between Amazon and your current employer?
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Even if you can find a sw Eng job, salaries have dropped to ~2019-2020 levels Factor in inflation since then and it’s a huge effective pay drop
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
There are many cases (not all justified) where product work is too difficult to directly tie to financial outcomes, or, the lag time is very long So then you get into all these murky waters of how to decide what to work on and how to go abo
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by twojobsoneboss 3y ago
I once as team lead had to preside over a product designer and senior dev (who used to be a CTO at a tiny startup) who never saw eye to eye, but the designer always had the final say, (unless there was a good technical reason to do somethin