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i tried it, used up all my connects and only got one conversation out of it where i was competing for rates that are ok in India and even after I accepted that the guy just ghosted me and I couldn’t get my connects back. completely not worth it. you are better off doing craigslist computer repair.

personally i don’t have the luxury of avoiding any job posts and i know the right answers to give them and just do that. once on the job I do agitate, educate and organize, though. the thing is, though, I also DID have a passion for my job for many years but over the years its gotten harder to really enjoy it like I used to when I was younger. I still find personal and hobby projects fun, though and get excited by tech but getting excited about being exploited is just much harder these days, even if the pay and benefits are 2-5 times better than what my friends are making.

breathing exercises, intense exercise, taking timeout to think about about all your stressors and what actions you can take to reduce them in meaningful ways. i also get really mad and stressed out and close to shutting down sometimes/often. im trying to get into a DBT skills course on top of what i already mentioned as things that have been helpful for me but yeah

congrats

It’s dry and you’re fuzzy, I’m not in charge of this

well that and she just has to rub all over the couch, generating shitloads of charge. she acts like im the evil magic one but really its like 90% on her lol. cats

If you’re a senior engineer, then you should have a team of juniors doing most of the coding. Your job is to architect, peer review, meet with stakeholders, etc… At least that has been my experience. Unless you are on one of those small teams with all senior engineers and then you have to do all of the above, and the coding too. I’ve had that experience as well.

small team with inexperienced new people that needed a lot of training and we also had “architect” positions and those guys I would never even see or talk to, they were in their own realm somewhere isolated from the actual work. what you are describing was more like the “principal” engineer and we had one of those and he was mostly only doing meetings and occasionally doing some work when the itch struck him sufficiently

Yeah, you either work extra hours or you work during the meetings or both or you get de-skilled pretty quickly unless you work open source, second job or personal projects in the non-work hours. Otherwise, you can treat it like BS job but your skills will become BS and you will have to get better at lying and or potentially go into management with that level of experience. RN I’m unemployed and I’d gladly take any position, even if I’m qualified for senior, and I don’t care if I have to work extra hours to keep up and this is coming from someone who has been actively organizing on the job at my last two tech jobs.

similar situation, though ill start running low after unemployment runs out and i have another 4 months of that, so will probably start panicking then. im already pretty stressed

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Quiet quitting is sorta stopping working… so I guess we are like a dim lightbulb lol That said though, a burnout antidote is to start a union and love your craft, not your boss’s bottom line. That’s the real boss fight. Grind culture can lead to burnout but frankly it can also not. For me personally, grinding to level up my own coding skills for myself or for volunteer efforts is far more satisfying that working extra hours for some VC’s profits. Not that I haven’t had cool projects at work but you don’t always get to have those and also I am not gonna be putting in unpaid hours of work anymore for their profits. Open source, personal projects for a portfolio, volunteering for something you actually CARE about is a good burnout antidote. If you do it off the clock at a strict workplace you can still enjoy what you got into tech for in the first place while you spend your time at work doing what it takes to stay employed, while organizing, should you choose to do that. In a more bougie workplace you could even do that on the clock and not get much pushback at all. That said, if you really want to be pro-athlete level coder you are probably gonna have to put in more than 40 hours weekly combined at and off work, tech skills are fastly moving target, so it does require it but hell, at least its not physical work… And as far as the corporate porkies and their manager lackies, my observation (* anecdotal but I have also talked to many coworkers about this type of stuff and confirmed it repeatedly) is that the bigger the company, the more clueless they are about who is really doing what of value. Case in point, working hard and overdelivering doesn’t always save you from the random ‘fire’ button. I’ve seen it happen to myself and my coworkers based on really dubious reasoning behind upper management’s layoff decisions, which they are also super un-transparent about. If you are not levelling up skills you will probably eventually get proletarianized, having to do much more manual and outdated work for much less pay than before, which is also good, in a way, because you will find yourself with other proletarianized ex-coders that will want to start a coder’s union much more than a bunch of bougie techies who are feeling themselves as indivuals far more than as a workers collective. Don’t be a sellout, be skilled worker that’s also an organizer in solidarity with the rest of the working class, even if you are a bougie worker. Code for your own enjoyment and to keep up with the craft and for whatever org or volunteer effort you actually CARE about, not for licking the bosses’ boot.

Do people watch these on 2x speed? 3x? Just download the audio and listen like it’s a podcast or lecture?

honestly i don’t have time for it anymore but when I did watch breadtube and breadtube adjacent twitch people I’d get the vods, fast foward past the BS and then watch the rest of it on anywhere from 2.5x to 5x depending. i don’t even have time for that anymore. i will however watch other slop for stress relief purposes and self-soothing when I need to, i just have better sources for political analysis these days that is proletarian and not the small business orientation most these people belong to

the only time i have experience with this is at one point i lied about having a masters degree when I didn’t even have a bachelors, they didn’t even check but it didn’t even help much with hiring tbh and I ended up removing it from the resume and put real stuff and got hired with that. that said, I would say mostly don’t lie and for the things you do lie about, not only convince yourself its true but also run through a few toy projects and google/chatgpt common interview questions for that thing and all the other things you are supposed to know and rehearse your shit. i actually am doing that for stuff that I have experience with too because I’m forgetting stuff I knew 2 years ago, for example. that said, I can’t lie, I’ve been super tempted to start lying about the EXTENT of my experience with things lately, I feel like I’m being too honest and noone else is…

work requirement, amphetamine-driven endless curiosity of staring at commands and man pages, interest in programming, initial allure of the concept of copyleft

true that

I have not dumped a long time friend but I’ve definitely just grown apart from one and stopped talking/texting etc with them. Sometimes that’s all you need to do, really. You don’t even necessarily owe them an explanation, you can totally ghost them, its fine. The world is full of people, you can find new friends, as can they, maybe…

i mean the law is authoritarian in general but that’s kind of its point also. I share OP’s frustration with their friend though, some people really don’t read situations well or know how to interact without alienating themselves

i look at porn and may even edge a bit but not orgasm so as to increase libido for actual sex with my partner later. that said erotica and artwork would work great too, im sure

its not about moral grounds. its about class struggle and the bare minimum for a union is defending hard won gains for the working class. your example with the truckers doesn’t translate because no union truckers (that I know of) have had such a battle won that would guarantee residuals on what is being transported. what is not a winnable battle in one sector is a winnable battle in another. the question really is which side of the fight are you on?

if you are a small business owner you are not in the same position as a worker that is part of a union that has a negotiated contract, so I can see how you think you have no leg to stand on when asking for residuals but what it ultimately comes down to is always leverage and with collective action workers have more leverage than you would on the open market as a freelancer, for example

that said, though, there are attempts at unionizing platform freelance workers such as people that work through platforms such as fiver or upwork, etc. i haven’t kept up on how well they are going but you could reach out to union organizers where you are located to talk to them about that

personally, i’d use a uhaul for a move like that to not fuck up my car but more horsepower to them i guess