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- This is a serious question: Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects? In my career I have "started" projects for maybe 2-5% of my time. All of the real effort goes in to massaging the app to actually solve unique business problems, about 80-90% on edge cases.
Bold and cynical claim: Making and selling apps like this is akin to building a social media brand about building social media brands. The problem this solves is only experienced by serial creators who like starting projects, not making useful stuff. I personally know 2 people who are like that attempted to start this exact same concept for a company, and that was like 6 years ago, and it was Rails too.
- Really works for me. I make more money and have a lot more influence on my world. I am a total control freak though, and really can't get satisfaction if I'm not able to make real changes to my organization.
- Nobody will tell you, or even know, if you're doing a good job. Meaningful metrics are trailing and your reports will lie to you instead of giving you constructive feedback. A lot of the time they simply don't think about what kind of feedback will help you.
- You will ruin peoples' dinners. You will make decisions that will cause people to complain about you at home and be nasty to their family members. Sometimes it's because you made a mistake and sometimes it's business. Get right back on that horse.
- You are actually in charge, accountable, and responsible for some or all of your department. That can cause a lot of anxiety, and may result in some uncomfortable time commitments. You might coordinate a disaster response and have absolutely nothing to contribute except imparting a sense of urgency. It is very hard for me to take time off, whereas when I was a dev I could easily slack on Thursday that I'm blowing off the rest of the week since I met my commitments.
- Time management, oh my goodness. You will start some days with an empty calendar and not get off of the phone until 6. Or you may actually get a free day and decide it's really important to build some workflow automation for your dev team tools. This is where having tech chops makes the job super fun.
- Seeing people grow and internalize your advice. Hearing your own words or seeing your own behavior in up and comers is easily the most rewarding experience I've had professionally.
- You really don't get new information and there are really no secrets. I kinda expected to be privy to all kinds of performance and comp data but we're all just winging it.
- I love to talk shit on huge broadcasters but using their app for the olympics has been amazing. I just watched 2 days of replays from their app, all with minimal or no commentary, and all with few commercials (like 1/30 minutes).
Not only do you get replays for literally every event, but they don't even spoil them with the final scores or results.
Edit: It looks like I failed to mention that cable is required so that's a huge caveat. Also some folks seem to get more commercials than I have.
- Our team chose it and I was pretty on the fence because wikis have existed for more than a decade and I had always considered the problem solved.
However, engineers like using it and that is invaluable. I can't explain it, I guess cause it 'feels' 'new.' It is pretty fun to use on a Mac, and the results are aesthetically pleasing. I understand there are some pretty sophisticated things you can do with the API, and we are already talking about tying it to PRs to make release notes.
Pretty promising all-in-all, but I wouldn't have picked it over and established wiki solution.
- Oftentimes the landlord covers utilities and lumps that up in to the rent, and I have a place in New England where that is the convention. We pay $500-$600/month for heating oil in the winter. Then we have about $300 in electricity and another $300 for water/sewage.
These numbers might be off but you get the idea.
That's the difference.
- I am enjoying the same experience.
My day at work is collecting information, and then during walks and dinner, while watching sports, before falling asleep, it's all daydreaming about work.
This may sound like a bummer to some people, but I couldn't really think of a better way to spend my day than by playing a business strategy sim in my head.
I also recognize the advantages of healthful, hygienic habits.
- When Covid hit, I quit my cushy job to create a video game. It was awesome, and given the time and resources I am confident it would have sold a few thousand copies.
But c'mon, I quit my job to get away from working for a living for a year. I put in 4-6 hours a day in earnest, but it was pretty obvious from the beginning that I wasn't gonna finish and coding the game was just an opportunity to be more creative than I am as a manager.
No way would I have ever entertained this idea without knowing I could walk back in to a high-paid job a month after starting to look, which I did.
- Everyone should read Moby Dick . If the traditional praise is not enough, it is about how hard it is to understand. Code, tech, government, whales, or anything large. I identified with Ahab, mostly because he vacillates between confidence of knowing and fear of unknowing. It is just like working on a large software project.
- I just have to say thanks for asking. I don't know if folks outside of a given field understand the particular insanity one in that field suffers.
TL;DR: on paper I have a perfect job/damn good life but I legit cannot force myself to do any work.
Let's look at the brass tacks for me and why I should be so happy: 1. 5+ years salary in the bank. 2. Several rental properties, all operating normally, covering all of our monthly expenses. 3. A high-paying remote job with infinite autonomy. 4. 10-month old baby, our first. My mom provides free childcare.
This person has it all, right? Oh my god no I have never been this miserable. Our partners are insurance companies, and they are always slow to work with. With COVID they are effectively non-operational when it comes to implementing new software. This means we just spin our wheels.
Life have never been so meaningless from 9-5. There are days when I don't even open my editor or attend meetings. There is just this incredible detachment amongst the whole team.
When I clock out, life is perfect. I never liked going out or anything anyways, so it's just the perfect excuse to sit and home and work on my creative projects.
I am currently working on a plan to take a leave of absence because the alternative is that I just resign. Sitting so close to the life I've always wanted (being a couch potato) and having my beautiful son to be with all day has made it impossible to contribute to my team and the guilt of that is gutting me.
- It says right in this article that of the money allocated, the Fed has not met it's commitment to disclose the lender, sum, and interest rate of about 3/4 of the loans they have given. It is a fair assumption by the author that we cannot have any expectation that the rest of the disbursements will be reported appropriately.
- Internet 'marketing' is a fascinating pyramid scheme, where established players create content to help new entrants create content that will expose them to newer entrants. Somehow this should get everybody paid (not just the big players selling the domains and website creation tools).
A minuscule number of new entrants have achieved some form of success, so of course they get a louder and more influential voice.
- I honestly believe the vein of this book being presented is "try hard and maybe you'll get lucky."
I'm sorry I can't find it, but there was an article on here a month or so ago called something like "to get ahead, focus on the metagame." The idea is to work on things that will help you get actual benefits in life. For example, spend your energy at work making sure your boss knows you do a good job, and forget about actually doing a good job. While some folks find that hard to swallow, it's how you get a high salary and promotions.
- Ex-cook here, more than 10 years. Learn about mise-en-place and implement it in your work. It will be painful as hell but you will begin working far more quickly and accurately than your coworkers and it will likely end up with you leading.
I see so many similarities in the jobs. Great mise-en-place makes a great cook just the same as a great dev. Remember though, even the best cooks have to chop garlic during service occasionally.