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Previous: >>106096506

learn a trade

Move to Bolivia

Quickly! Before britbongs will ban 4channel, post sites where you can talk to people about tech and work besides twg!

>you have a refugee site ready, don't you?

I have been working for 4 years now, 3 as a Data Engineer, and it came to me that I don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a screen. It's not that I hate it, in fact I love it, but something feels off, like, everything I do has no meaning at all.
I want to open a gym one day and be the cool manager that uses the facility too. Maybe start a chain even. From now on, I will keep working in tech until I save enough and jump start my new dream.

>>106112542 (OP)
thinking of applying to X (formerly Twitter). what's their hiring process like?

>>106112851
You have to be able to pitch a tent in a live interview

>>106112936
what if my interviewer is an ugly man

Does anyone here uses linux (and what distro) for work? I have been given 2500usd from my new job to spend in any laptop I want and is going to be mine. Thing is I've always been provided M1 to M3 macs cuz they just werk. I'm thinking about a M4 pro, but damn gaming laptops are looking really good and I can do some dual boot win10/linux. I'm a webdev faggot

>>106112675
>you have a refugee site ready, don't you?
no I was fucked when 4chin went down last time

>>106113136
>2500usd from my new job to spend in any laptop
>thinking about a M4 pro
>I can do some dual boot win10/linux
>I'm a webdev faggot
yeah, you're a faggot

>>106112675
>>106113201
/down/ is the place to be when 4chan goes down.
https://downdetector.com/status/4chan/

>>106112542 (OP)
why is the OP image that tetsuo twitter faggot?

all he does is shill his (failed) shitty crypto token in the C / ASM group

Is it true that teenagers are vibe coding their way into jobs and running circles around experienced developers?

>>106113768
yes, boomer devs in shambles

>>106113781
Images to preserve for when their service has a massive security breach.

>>106113222
Your are right. I've been conditioned by my environment. Anything outside mac os is scary and might just not werk™ but last thing I want is having to troubleshoot some bs linux issue when I have others thing to do. That's why I'm asking the gay community

>>106114034
Just buy a MacBook. Even aside from Linux, for a work environment a MacBook is objectively the best option. There's only a few exceptions, mostly when you do actual winshit dev (obviously) or need something that only works on Linux like CUDA

>>106112542 (OP)
Finally told this stupid jeet to debug his own fucking slop. I can't figure it out, and I'm fucking sick of it. Felt fucking good

>>106114830
who tf keeps hiring these jeets lol

To this day getting a second phone number and using it on my resume and work was one of the best decisions I ever made.

>>106115384
why?

I want to fucking die. This project is almost finished but I hate everything about the entire process that got me here. I'd rather be a gas station attendant. If only that would make me financially secure. What good is God given talent if it's only going to lead me to exploitative jobs that wreck my mental health? When I told my dad I wanted to do computer shit when I was a little kid he said "manual labor never hurt anyone" but obviously he was wrong because he hurt his back and got laid off. But I kinda see what he was getting at now. I long for a life with no pressure, no deadlines, none of that fucking shit. If I didn't have anything to lose I'd go back to just being a fucking loser. I think it's better than this.

>>106115790
As a famous bald streamer once said: It is what it is

>>106112542 (OP)
where can i find a girl who'll look to me like that?

>>106115777
So I don't have to install any bullshit app on my personal phone. I also avoid calls and any kind of message over whatsapp, telegram or similar.
Work phone is permanently silent and I just leave it in a bag when I'm done.

>>106115917
Do Americans really?

>tfw PhD in AI in Germany
I'm going to end up unemployed, ain't I?

>>106116335
No you are going to make it anon.

Also how long was the PhD?

>>106116335
How retarded are you? If you've unironically got a phd in ai you can pick whatever company you want

>>106116350
>>106116362

There's hundreds of thousands if not millions of PhDs in AI/ML about to graduate and not enough jobs to go around.

Then consider that most PhDs, including mine are very far from an industry relevance. And that I'm not situated in the US where most jobs are. And that my PhD institution/professor is not known for anything in AI/ML. Yeah, I'm cooked.

is 60k/yr a good wage for an entry level tech job?

>>106116560
Yes but for IT helpdesk monkeys it is. If its programming then getting raped daily pays more.

>>106116560
Poverty

>>106113201
>It's east to make friends online from 0
>When asked, nobody actually has any other site to visit
Yeah, everyone just sticks to their real life cliques, meeting people online in 2025 is a just a fantasy.
Better make these friends at work.

>>106116560
Can you survive on it? Then yes. Can you not survive on it? Then no.

>>106116883
back in the day i made friends in online gaming and used somethingawful before it got too pozzed

the farms are also ok

>Looking for a new job on Microsoft™ LinkedIn
>Sending them a link to my Microsoft™ GitHub profile
>Telling them about my experience with Microsoft™ TypeScript, Microsoft™ NPM, Microsoft™ .NET, and Microsoft™ Visual Studio Code
>If I get the job I'll probably be given a computer with Microsoft™ Windows, Microsoft™ Visual Studio, and Microsoft™ Teams
Fuck Microsoft

>>106116917
What is this? Rationality on 4chan? You're supposed to give stupid contrarian opinions just to be edgy and special

>>106116917
yeah but its at a defense company

>>106117122
most if not all ms products that aren't w10, excel, or teams suck but honestly 99% of actual productivity happens on those three things which are Good, Actually so whatever

>stuck in current job because salary is too high and responsibilities not low enough
Anyone know how the fuck to get out of this?
Getting into a position with more seniority is impossible because you have no leadership experience.
Anything less than that and you get a 30% pay cut because your company pays so well.
But your company also doesn't want to promote you into a leadership position so you won't gain that needed experience.
What do?

Manager told me I’m taking 2-3x longer than ticket estimates. My mental health is honestly so diminished and I don’t like my job. What’s my next move?

>>106117122
>If I get the job I'll probably be given a computer with Microsoft™ Windows, Microsoft™ Visual Studio, and Microsoft™ Teams
Can confirm, you will!

>>106116560
I started at $60k back in 2009

>>106117122
we love .net here

>>106117323
>most if not all ms products that aren't w10, excel, or teams suck but honestly 99% of actual productivity happens on those three things which are Good, Actually so whatever
Windows is okay but also kind of shit. One Microsoft project which I think is actually good is TypeScript. Some of their other products piss me off though. VS Code is okay but because it's Electron it's bloated as fuck. Meanwhile there's Sublime Text which manages to be cross-platform without Electron, it's far more lightweight, and you can add language servers to Sublime, giving it similar functionality to VS Code in many cases.

>>106117596
>vs code
>bloated
Anon, it's not 2005 anymore your laptop can handle it.
Also it's only good because it wasn't developed by microsurgery, they just took over the project like with anything else

>>106117122
>>If I get the job I'll probably be given a computer with Microsoft™ Windows
If I don't get a MacBook, I'm outta there.

>>106117492
You quit or get PIP'd (fired).

>>106117640
It would depend what product you work on. Obviously, if it's any kind of desktop app, you'd have a Windows laptop. But even if you work backend for a web service, a lot those services run on Windows IIS, so you would need a Windows machine to build/test and run locally.
Yes, you can run .NET Core and later apps on Linux, and I've done it, but many Microsoft products predate that (by decades).

>>106117492
doctor note -> FMLA -> return to work -> do nothing until fired -> unemployment b/c of doctor note evidence

>>106117596
til typescript is an MS product but I still dont know what it does and have no intention to learn

>>106117679
also this. cooooooders love to pretend that the only code that gets written is running on linux but the reality of it is that 99% of software is b2b slop that either piggybacks off of or is simply a ripoff of some SAP product and will inevitably be used by a roastie on a windows box

>>106115790
Same boat anon. I'm seriously considering meth. I want to take a week off and do meth. I've never done meth before but they say it's good. Maybe I should do MDMA instead. Maybe I should do MDMA + Meth, and acid, and ketamine.

>>106117725
>and will inevitably be used by a roastie on a windows box
Well that's not the issue. I could imagine if you were strictly frontend web development at Microsoft, you could get by with a MacBook. In fact, some of those engineers probably should be using MacBooks to verify compatibility across OSes and browsers. The product I work on has a frontend component and a backend. I don't know what the frontend devs use. But for us backend devs, we have to use Windows because the application runs on Windows Server instances on Azure and is compiled on Windows instances into .NET 4.8 DLLs using MSBuild, so most of us use full Visual Studio on Windows. Some people try using VS Code, but our .NET solutions have like 100+ csproj files each so that can be hit/miss depending on the task... Even full VS chokes on me like twice a day.

>>106117717
Honestly I might do this. Thanks for the advice

>>106117822
Also, this is compared to my last job which was a "startup" where we used Ruby which ran on Linux containers on Kubernetes. We did everything with MacBooks (except one guy who had a Windows laptop and used WSL for some reason).

>>106117609
It's true though, VS Code is bloated. There are other cross-platform applications like Sublime Text, or Qt applications, which are much more lightweight, while still being cross-platform.

>>106117725
>til typescript is an MS product but I still dont know what it does and have no intention to learn
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript which adds static typing, and it compiles into JavaScript. So you no longer have to dig around trying to figure out what type is expected by a function.

>>106117822
>if you were strictly frontend web development at Microsoft, you could get by with a MacBook.
do macs work on AD/exchange? and why would MS themselves give you a computer made by their direct competitor anyway? do you are have stupid and think everyone only cares about what IDE has the best font smoothing?

>>106117822
>if you were strictly frontend web development at Microsoft, you could get by with a MacBook.
retardation like this this is why the sysadmins issue out locked-down corpobooks

>>106117911
>There are other cross-platform applications like Sublime Text, or Qt applications,
Yes and they have less functionality. Did you know Heckin vim or nano is even more lightweight??? No way!

>>106118245
I know devs at Microsoft who use MacBooks, so yes it does work. I don't know how, since I don't have one and never set it up myself, but it's possible.
>>106118259
Huh? My main development Windows laptop is actually not locked down that much. I can install almost anything I want. My SAW laptop on the other hand......

>>106118544
>I know devs at Microsoft who use MacBooks, so yes it does work
They do publish native macOS applications, so there's obviously going to be some MacBooks on premises anyway.

>>106112979
give him a paper bag and tell him its your kink

I actually had a conversation with someone else at the office yesterday, for the first time in over 180 days.

>visit parents
>dad is watching dubbed ai videos about cats
society is collapsing in front of us

What do most webdevs actually do?
At my work, we have to do front and back end along with half of the deployment and devops pipeline. But I've heard some jobs people literally only write react or only backend stuff and not even database.

>>106119276
What's so surprising about that?

Final round on wednesday. Passed the technical, this is meeting with department leads and shit for a vibe check. I'm nervous but pretty confident I have a good chance.

>>106119059
I have like 3 conversations a day in the office. Ever since musk made federal workers go back to office I haven't gotten crap done.

How did you get your first helpdesk job?

>>106119325
Good luck anon.
I recommend eating some chocolate before the meeting, drinking a little bit or something like that.

Just landed my first ever job, software eng at a big finance company. Pays well.
t. mid tier uni graduate with zero work experience

>>106113768
unironically most seniors are too far up their own asses to adapt and are being outperformed by mid level devs who pair program with Gemini/Claude

>>106112542 (OP)
Anybody here gotten GCP certs?
I've got AWS Solutions Architect - Associate and I'm angling to get 'GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer', unsure whether to go for an associate cert first or go straight to the professional.

I have a PhD in chemistry and make decent money for my area (very stable job) but I'm considering picking up programming as a hobby with the hope that it could eventually turn into something more lucrative than what I'm doing now. I see stories about AI technologists making 9-figure salaries and wonder if it's possible for a person at my age (38) to pivot all the way in this direction.

Is there any point in trying to do this in my 30s? I'm very good at self-teaching things (that's what a PhD requires). I also don't have a family (massive incel) so no wife/kids to take up my time.

>>106119335
When I worked in a federal job (contractor, but on-site embedded with govvies), there were some that would just talk for fucking hours... It was like... Dude, I don't really want to be doing this boring work right now, but I also don't want to hear about your ex-wife... again.

>>106119495
I also have a top secret security clearance if that matters.

>>106119276
When I started in my job, it was more of a free-for-all where all devs did front-end and back-end development, and everyone did deployments. It eventually started to get more specialised where the team I was on started handling all of the DevOps and deployment stuff and significantly reduced the amount of front/back-end work we did. At some point they also hired dedicated front-end people.

Im 28, taking the comptia A+ and seeking a tech support job.
Is there a reverse survivorship bias going on because there's definitely people being hired with the A+, but a lot of Redditors bitching about being nojob.

>>106119495
>I see stories about AI technologists making 9-figure salaries
Yeah, it's hyper-competitive with those people having PhDs from Stanford/MIT and 10+ years of experience in big tech.

>>106119495
>I see stories about AI technologists making 9-figure salaries
they're fake bro

palantir, despite its 9999bn valuation had a revenue of like two million bucks last year

>>106115917
>install any bullshit app on my personal phone
Why would you give up your personal phone by installing work apps in the first place? Just ask your employer to provide one.

>>106119611
That makes me think we should probably head that route. I think we are only doing all this stuff because it used to be only like 10-20 people but now we have like 60 and they said they are trying to get up to 16 more people now.

>>106119929
Our development teams basically got split across product functions, so there was a finance team that handled the money aspects of the software, then there was a data-esque team that did reporting, etc. The biggest difference was the platform team that was doing DevOps, deployments, infra, etc. that wasn't not really any specific product area.

>guy running for local political office
>sends out a statement
>brags that he worked for Accenture
uh... that's a hard NOPE

>>106119644
Probably. Reddit and the internet in general has that problem pretty bad.
Go to the adopted subreddit and everyone is saying how horrid adoption is, but the few people I know personally said they love their parents and don't even think about the fact they were adopted.
Heck, look at all these news articles about birth rates and cost of living. People that are lacking complain, people that arent are usually invisible.
Get the A+ and apply, anon. Get more certs as you apply though, always get better.

>>106120293
Imagine adopting a kid and then it grows up and says it wants to find their "real" parents
Doesn't get more cucked than this kek

>>106120250
Oh shit, another brags that he worked or Boeing, and in another race a guy brags he worked for Amazon
I guess this is to be expected living near Seattle...

i have a technical interview at the end of the month for a very important company and im grinding leetcode hard for it. i really want this job but im worried about not being prepared enough.

>>106119430
i've got the Azure AI certs.
the "fundamentals" one (which i assume is the same as the associate for GCP/AWS) is basically free. i swear to god i've only studied in the 3 hours before the exam and passed.

>>106120413
>the "fundamentals" one (which i assume is the same as the associate for GCP/AWS) is basically free
Yeah but it's also effectively useless and it costs money to take the exam.
I was asking more about whether I should get GCP 'Associate Cloud Engineer' first but my question was articulated poorly;

>>106120429
are you paying for the certs yourself?

>>106120438
I got the AWS one myself. But I guess I'll ask about GCP, I'm sure they will say yes.

>>106120455
if company is paying for it you might as well take both
otherwise maybe jump directly to the relevant one

>>106120464
True and good call.

>>106120429
>Yeah but it's also effectively useless
All certs are useless, ranjeet.

>>106120344
Hopefully its not just leetcode? Just imagine all of the dumb college level questions they could ask you about.

I am Solution Architect and I literally don't know or understand anything.
Even the junior engineers have better knowledge of how things work than me.
My days consist of watching YouTube and playing vidya and joining meetings where I talk with other architects about things that ultimately don't matter.
My work serves no benefit or brings any value to anyone and I dont understand why I have not been fired yet.

>>106120333
People bragging because they worked at a company are the worse. As if it means literally anything.
Companies hire retards all the time. The bigger the company the more likely they didnt do anything.

Any math bros here?

>>106120915
/SCI/ has a stem general for you guys. They also have a math general. Sorry you fell for the meme degree instead of going for engineering.

>>106120932
crazy how the meme was always "90k starting" and in this general if you make 90k without any education at all everyone calls you a poorfag

>>106120941
Its all relative. I make $90k as a fully remote engineer (non senior) and even with expensive rent, I have more money than I know what to do with because I have zero debt, minimal expenses outside of rent, etc.
While I know people who make $150k-200k who are constantly teetering on the brink of being completely financially broken.
$90k can still go a long way depending on where you live, your lifestyle, etc. I've got 45k in savings, 10-15k in a checking account at all times, 60k in a 401k and another 15 or so tied up in crypto.

Plus, tech salaries are actively getting crunched if you aren't AI / ML. $90k is going to be the norm soon enough.

>>106120941
the /sci/ math meme was 300k starting
t. browsed /sci/ before it became overran with anti-vaxxers

>>106121032
>While I know people who make $150k-200k who are constantly teetering on the brink of being completely financially broken.
Yeah, NYC/SF/San Jose is like that.
Part of why TC dick measuring means very little half the time

>>106121065
That, and life style creep. You'd be shocked at how much even people making well clear of six figs are struggling, even in the midwest. I know the economy is fucked, but people are completely debt maxxed such that they'll never escape.

>i HAVE to buy a new home
>i HAVE to get xyz new car every few years
>i HAVE to go on enormous luxury vacations every year
>i HAVE to get a new phone every year
>these are just normal life milestones

>>106116616
You gotta invest way too much to get raped for $165 every day

>>106117734
Don’t do meth. MDMA is what you should do first. Might make you less depressed. Lucy and K are nice too but harder to find.

>>106121123
I make 150k$ as a IT network technician surrounded by people making 120-160k. Lifestyle creep is the real killer. Even with most of us being good at saving money/investing and reinvesting in our careers alot of people really do not move out of debt maxing unless they take that money to pay off debt first. If they skip paying off debt as the first thing they do when making more money then they end up in more debt due to the increased credit card limits.

>>106121032
If you don’t about $500k-$1M invested by about 40 you aren’t going to retire. $90k is no where near a family sustaining salary anywhere in 2025 at least not any US city. Its amazing to me that people can’t do a simple rule of 7 calculation on their current net worth on the diff in years to retirement age.

>>106121032
I dont even know how people get those crazy salaries outside of places like SF.
I make 90k w/ a CS degree and now at 2.5 YOE. Its government work so I that makes it lower than typical I guess.
My rent is $650/month since I live with a friend. No debt either. I can't even spend all the money I get unless I tried really really hard to do so. Meanwhile I have a friend who makes slightly more than me and he's on the brink. He has a low mortgage and a car payment even though his old car was fine. He just buys a bunch of random trash every week and pays far more on monthly necessities than is required because he thinks he needs the "better" stuff (expensive groceries, a whole lot of pricey stuff for his dog, endless amounts of therapy and psychiatric drugs, subscriptions, etc)

130k, no degree, sysadmin, 1k rent
I'm trapped here because nobody else will hire me. I save a good amount, but I still doubt I'll get to retire before full retirement age.

Would you consider dating a woman who is working class and poorer than you a problem? I find myself in this situation since we started dating in university, but she dropped out while I didn't.

>>106121177
Now consider how much money you would need if you were married with kids and you actually wanted your wife to raise your kids not a 3rd world nanny and also retire by 65.

>>106121180
No one is retiring. Why would old fucks forgoe some of the best income of their lives when they can just keep working and go on vacations 2-3 months at a time with unpaid leave.

>>106121195
Depends if you love her. I love my wife but her parents being worth about ~$10M and having CA costal property is a massive perk to my marriage.

>>106121195
Who gives a shit? Most ppl ITT don’t even get the chance of knowing someone good enough to date

>>106121196
Honestly, I ran numbers for this and I could support a wife who doesnt work and 3 kids with my 90k salary. Thats the max though, as in no money left over every month.

>>106121171
I have zero intention of retiring in the US, and I'm not producing slaves for some billionaire to take advantage of. I want this shit to crumble.

>>106121202
The game is to get to coast fire and then just work menial jobs while your money grows or take a low stress tech job if you aren’t burnt out. You aren’t getting to coast fire though without selling out for faang for a few years though.

>>106120854
You have my dream job, I only aspire to be just like you.

>>106121210
Ok so how do you plan to retire? You need to be stacking at least $50k a year assuming you

>>106121207
Marrying into a rich family has to be dope. Imagine having her parent paying for your kids private schooling, sports, and vacations because they got cash to throw around. Meanwhile most families can't even imagine saving for their kids college fund.

>>106121210
Ok so how do you plan on retiring? Hint: maxing out 401k won’t be enough, but you should do that. Assuming you are mid 20s you need AT LEAST $5M by 65 in todays money with inflation. You probably need to be stacking $50k a year.

>>106121202
Honestly this is kinda the move.
>have fuck you money
>but still work part time
>keep getting to go on crazy vacations instead of pacing yourself

>>106121236
I mean they are middle class in San Diego but very wealthy compared to where I grew up.

>>106121195
My poor working class wife now makes more than me, that's why I'm jumping into tech because I fell for the "dream career".

>>106121226
>>106121238
I wouldnt really be able to in that case. Im only 2 years into my career right now though and I did all those calculations assuming 90k for 30+ years.
I could always hope I die early into retirement.

>>106121264
Good, start aggressively saving now. Time is money. Its way easier to hit coast fire if younger. If I recall you only need like $100k stacked by 27 or so.

>>106121264(me)
And these assumptions relating to retirement are pretty pessimistic. Who knows, maybe the economy will be great by then. Or maybe we'll all be living through the apocalypse since the complex systems that maintain this world will be too complex for the next generations to figure out and it all collapses in on itself.

>>106121276
Money doubles every 7 years at 10% return (sp 500).

>>106121276
Im 28 and only got 41k in savings. Recently had a CD and am gonna dump a lot of it into stocks soon. Really just want a house right now to build equity.
In the case that I never get married, im sure I'll be completely fine by the time im 65.

>>106121300
Its very easy to calculate how much you will have via the rule of 72 and expected return. Also don’t fall for the you have to buy a house meme. In most places renting is the correct financial decision right now. $41k at 28 is a start thats not bad.

>>106121321
Wouldn't a house be cheaper in the long run assuming I made a large enough down payment and got a low enough interest rate to counter out the amount of total interest I'll be paying over the lifetime of the mortgage?
Because once you own the house, you only need to worry about property tax and thats way less than a years worth of rent.

>>106121034
>anti-vaxxers
well I was born before 2001 and got to experience /sci/ some time before this decade and it was 90k. but i guess people have updated their meme folders for inflation

>>106121123
>>106121159
i honestly dont get how people spend so much money. i understand capital stuff like a house or new car or whatever but even if you go on vacation you can get away with having a week or two of very good non-poorfag fun on like 5k. i go out drinking a lot but physically cannot consume more than 100$, i would puke violently and end my night long before spending that much. and new phones are LITERALLY free, every phone plan you get to replace your phone for some new piece of rage inducing black glass every two or three years and the cost of the phone is built into the plan on top of being heavily subsidized by the phone company

and in terms of magic number 90k in my neighborhood i do not know a single person who makes that much. personally i made around 65 before ceasing full time work and lived very comfortably in one of the most expensive cities in [spoiler]canada[/spoiler]

>>106121363
It depends, lookup a rent vs buy calculator. Interest rates are currently 6-7%. When you buy a house on 30 year mortgage you put 20% down. Houses appreciate on average at 5%. You could put that same money in a total stock market index at 7%. Its very likely your yearly rent is less than 2x property tax. You can get out of a rental easier if laid off. You get raped for 10% when you sell a house. Boomers didn’t lower their prices when rates went up. For example I rent a place currently for 3x less than what my mortgage payment would be for the same place.

>>106121300
housing is a meme, it doesnt make yo money unless you rent it out. not even boomer crying about having to do maintenance or pay taxes; housing is bubbling now and land is massively over-valued. prices are insanely high and somehow climbing, but most houses on the market have been there for over a year. you are likely to be unable to flip your house, and if you intend on simply living in it, then you can start boomer crying about having to do maintenance and paying taxes eating into the "equity"

the pro gamer move right now is to buy a townhouse and rent it out, but NOT on airbnb (many cities are starting to outlaw it or at least impose restrictions that make it no longer an infinite money glitch like it used to be just before/in early coof)

>>106121397
>>106121413
Guess I'll rent then. I dont know how long I'll live with this guy. He doesnt seem like he's gonna get married or want to kick me out anytime soon.
I've had too many bad experiences with actual apartments or renting from strangers that id rather not anymore and those guys always find a way to screw you.
Who knows what the next few decades will hold...

>>106121447
don't get me wrong, owning a home is good and all but if you're just in it to have "equity" you're a retard and in fact borrowing further against a house or using the house as collateral is how a lot of people perma-fuck themselves later in life

it also depends where you live. here in canada, a lot of rentals are also so insanely overpriced due to jeet pressure (they pack them 90 to a room so collect the same 100$ 90 times, so the average landlord now demands 9000 in rent for a whole unit) that a mortgage is cheaper. but at the same time, the housing market is so fucked due to chinese pressure that using a house as a financial instrument is suicidal and you may as well invest in something else

>>106112619
that's my hobby. little fixin's around my house with my uncle's advice (30 years in construction), two project cars, and 3D printer crafts. i want to learn it all. my biggest obstacle is gritting my teeth to pull permits, i disagree with the concept so much. i don't do any tech stuff at home.

>>106120820
it's gonna be just leetcode 100%, they told me in advance

How hard is it to get into the US with an H1B if you're european and not indian? I want to retire early too, it's not fair.

>>106112542 (OP)
>internal interview for an admin level promotion a week ago
>apparently they told the guy more senior to me he didnt get it
>nobody has told me whether I got it or not yet
theres still hope bros

>>106116883
Friends and work don't match very well.

> online friends 2025
Yeah it doesn't work that well anymore. Most of the younger millenials are now 29-35, and the older zoomers have completed college. A 9/5 drains time like nothing else and if you have a girlfriend / boyfriend (possibly even kids) little time remains. I've met some people from /g/ discord groups but that's about it.

>>106117492
If you're Dutch or European with strong sick leave laws claim a burnout and collect checks for as long as you're able to.

>>106119335
Whenever I'm in office I do very little and just doomscroll 4chan, discord, sometimes watch youtube vids and pretend to be sociable with colleagues. I'm the most boring person to talk to since I usually avoid any sensitive topics.

>>106119495
9 figs in AI? No, it isn't even possible for people that I encounter with PhDs, multiple publications, decent h-index. I see these people apply for data scientist roles that are making the same as backend dev / data engineer roles. For data engineering you only need a cs related bsc and maybe some certs to get an entry role.

>>106119648
I've encountered a guy with a phd who worked at Oxford 3 years postdoc and Stanford 2.5 years postdoc. He applied to a very basic data analist position that required sql + power bi knowledge and preferably some database / automation / cloud knowledge. Data science / AI as a field is cooked man. Skip that phd and stick to a bsc, maybe a msc if you fancy management positions after 5-10 years.

Don't go into data science. Do a cs degree and instead learn about databases, cloud, basic statistics maybe some advanced statistics but data science is worthless in 2025. There's just a glut of phds with postdocs, some with business experience that will take up the jobs and there are too little jobs for those who missed the boat.

>>106122506
>9 figs
no one but ceos is making that and even then not from salary itself. you guys really are brain poisoned and buck broken by hackernews and teamblind

>>106122750
Elon Musk is a self-made man and Tesla is going to pay him 58 BILLION dollars per year. Shut the fuck up jeet.

It's time to speed up the grind, tomorrow's Monday again!
How is your project/study progressing?


>>106122750
Wouldn't it be funny if teamblind was hacked like tea? Aren't they both the same, with teamblind being for men?

>>106122919
teamblind is more for bitching about the company in a thinly veiled scheme to let you bitch about coworkers

surprisingly, it didnt become bitching about coworkers and instead is just jeets dickwaving about how many rupees they make and duping westerners because they dont realize that 100k rupees is fuckall and has the local purchasing power of about 50k dollars, probably less

>>106123117
So it's like tea.
I'm reading the few posts accessible without account and it seems fun

>>106123232
there was an exploit where you could just delete the "make account pls" overlay with the browser inspector but i think they fixed it. basically all the posts are typical "LOL POORFAG I GOT MY CISSP AND MAKE 9999999 CRORE HAHA I DID REDEEMED" piss match posts you see here. you're not missing anything

Reminder that every minute you aren't learning new skills to survive in this industry that 10 million indians are.

>>106122506
>usually avoid any sensitive topics.
I think thats part of our issue with talking all the time. We agree on a lot of stuff so we talk about sensitive stuff quite often but thats when we start being quieter.
But mostly its just video games or whatever. Before I worked with these guys i never talked at work.

>>106123300
if it were up to me i'd be a tailor or a baker or something like that THOUGH (and just the other day i was experimenting with variations on the classic chain stitch)

>>106123417
Okay bye.

>>106123366
I'd be in pmd if that'd be up to me.
But I enjoy tech.

>>106123300
I grind better.

how cna you even enjoy sundays

>>106125040
I'm unemployed.

What IT jobs are suitable for autistic people where they don't bully you?

>>106126122
Go be a janitor

>>106126122
Literally all of them aside from some IT janny slop and even there it's not necessarily true

>>106126122
>IT jobs suitable for autistic people
If you do a lot of IT shit in your free time too, then Automation engineer

>>106126122
You should be the bully instead.
It'll happen naturally if you're autistic and actually know your stuff.

It's been 3 years of this shit and it's still getting worse

Job market status?

>>106126560
Something seems to have changed pretty dramatically this month, it's hard to tell whether it's good or bad though.

>>106126560
Bad. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-economy-tariffs-trade-jobs-growth-federal-reserve-a51eccaf?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
Our biggest hope is that Jerome starts cutting rates in September since hiring is so far down

>>106126669
Cutting FFR at this point will probably mean loans are harder to get for consumers and smaller investors which means less consumer and startup spending.

>>106126639
Speaking of change everyone around me including myself has not been able to get restful sleep. It could be chalked up to the weather due to cold fronts coming in but i feel like its instinct. Something is happening and not even the news knows it.

>>106126690
>taking a screenshot of your own /x/pol/ post

>>106120915
>Ph. D in Math
>any bagel I want
>300k bagels starting

I hate webdev but it pays the bills. will try to convince job to use flask instead of spring in a traditional spring boot + angular shop.

Java fucking sucks ass.

>>106126560
US: Owari Da
Europe: owari da
Canada: OWARI DA
India: IT NEVER EVEN BEGAN SIR

>>106127447
Convince them to switch from Java to Kotlin. Come home white man.

>>106117734
>meth bender for five days
>sleep all day saturday
>wake up sunday and realize you have to work monday
sounds like a great plan anon

>>106127447
Just .NET bro

>>106127616
>.NEET

I initially thought my former coworker was sociopathic, but after getting to know her, meeting her family, and finding out how old her parents were when they had her, I now think she's actually the most high-functioning autistic person I've ever met. Neat.

>>106126122
none of them

>>106126872
>Ph. B in Bagels
>Any Math I want
>300k Cream cheese starting

>>106127625
why'd you meet her family?
Did you marry her?

I'm looking for a hot ginger comp-sci wife. Can I find one in the workplace?

>>106127842
No, they are working from their laptop while at ski resorts and drinking hot chocolate

>>106127616
It can't ever go down and is used by thousands daily. So no microshit.

My life is so empty that the last text message I received (not counting scams or political spam) was two weeks ago, and it was from our company's on-call alert system letting me know there was a problem...

>>106127842
I am yet to meet an attractive woman in tech
They might exist, but I haven't found one in 10 years

I've been working on some open source software, ran mostly by eastern Europeans, but they even have jeet tier code now. If you build a fix for them, like a proper improvement on their garbage code, they complain that it's too bespoke, or that it anticipates tech debt which they aren't sure will happen in the future. And then they accept some other fix which basically just hacks the exact same thing I built, but in a non reusable way in a single component, so you know that in the future you'll end up with multiple implementations in different spots.

>Explain to us, in your own words, what a voxel is. Give us an example of a time you used voxels.
How do you answer this question in the tech job interview?

>>106126690
it's summer. sleepign when its hot sucks and sweating in your sleep makes you feel shitty when you wake up due to minor dehydration. drink more water

>>106128952
I've been posting "gm sirs :sun:" in a few Discord servers I'm in. Years ago, people I had used to work with posted good morning messages in Slack and I just carried over that tradition to a Discord server I have. Recently, I had decided to expand the tradition without being asked to into other people's servers. Some people are receptive to it. Some people are incredibly offended by it. One woman keeps banning me for it, and since I'm mates with the owner I'm immediately unbanned and let back in to post another "gm sirs :sun:" message the next day. This woman's reaction was so visceral, it had made me think about the monotony of day to day life. I basically do the same thing over and over again. I wake up, maybe I go out for a walk sometime that day, maybe I end up at a library, but I always end up at a computer working on my own projects. It's like I'm living on repeat and the expected payoff is that I'd eventually be able to break the cycle and do something with more variety. A lot of people's lives resemble a kind of formula, something that do day-to-day that's familiar and safe. Occasionally it's broken up by an outing of sorts. My life is far more routine and predictable. The reason is because I believe the more time I invest into my own projects, the greater the payoff will be (both in terms of financial independence and fulfillment). If the majority of a person's life in the modern era is built on routine, it makes this woman's hostile reaction more baffling. She *hates* being reminded that a new day has begun, she *hates* being reminded of the passage of time, and by extension she *hates* being reminded of her own dwindling mortality. Of course, I'm assigning a 2deep4u meaning to this. The real reason she's offended by my "gm sirs :sun:" messages is because I've undermined whatever semblance of authority she has in her life and she's being told to fuck off in a Discord server she moderates. Caroline, if you're reading this... gm sir :sun:

>>106129073
I have never used a voxel

>>106128026
But it's summer????

>>106129073
Minecraft! ^w^

>>106129073
Retarded word for 3d pixel
I've used it when playing Minecraft

>>106129202
bro your dubai chocolate vacation??

>>106129124
Meds now.

>>106129260
gm sir :sun:

>>106129260
What meds would you recommend? I took LSD a few days ago and just watch The Osbournes podcast all night. I've been gettin' into Black Sabbath since Ozzy died. Paranoid is a good album but there's heaps of other great songs by that band that are not on there. My new fav: https://youtu.be/OVWW0XD6v2Q?si=ZhZuAhQwoFf-oQau

>>106129142
>>106129240
>>106129246
>twg can't into graphics

>>106129335
thanks fellow anon feel free to post more

>>106129335
I think the reason why I had enjoyed watching The Osbournes Podcast all night during an acid trip is because there's a banality to it that makes it appealing. The core attraction is listening to an elder rockstar react to modernity, such as his daughter asking him what "based" is. The reason why I had found it so interesting is that it for me that it's the simulation of listening to my own family aimlessly discuss mundane topics and swap anecdotes. It was surprisingly comfortable to watch at 1AM. I'm an only child so it was also something to help me imagine what it would be like to have sibling, an idea I was interested in that evening.

>>106129465
Try this one out:
https://youtu.be/4LVUHNeqZeI?si=ctuHC1ekyqA3KGR9

>>106129484
based

i am always tired

>>106129771
Fix your sleep schedule, fix your diet, and do 10k steps per day.
Literally that simple.

>>106117482
Anyone????

>>106130009
i got to bed at 10 and get up at 8:30 but only sleep like 5 hours
i already have a pretty good diet and work out several days per week

>>106126669
>we need jews to tell us when we can use money

Fuck outta here. End the fucking Fed and let the market dictate rates like it's suppose to.

>>106130020
>>106117482
I'm not a dev, but I wonder: why would you want to be "promoted" to management? the jobs sucks, and it might not even pay more?
also, if you want a leadership position, how about you become an actual leader?

>>106130058
>i got to bed at 10 and get up at 8:30 but only sleep like 5 hours
why? bad habits? some psychological or health issue? have you tried taking pills, leaving your computer and phone far from you, or similar measures?

>>106128508
>It can't ever go down and is used by thousands daily. So no microshit.
Hold the fuck up, whats your reasoning for this? Java is not 100% uptime proof, nor is Spring, so there's something here you're missing.

>>106130090
>why would you want to be "promoted" to management? the jobs sucks, and it might not even pay more?
Why would anyone become a manager if it wouldn't pay more? Of course a leadership position pays more money
>also, if you want a leadership position, how about you become an actual leader?
I try to, but you can only do some much when you have actual leadership who won't give up their duties or aren't swamped with work. That's the entire point of my post

>>106130090
>just do management duties for free in addition to your gruntwork job

damn claude code is really good. feel like a schmuck sticking with cursor since i was an early adopter and too lazy to switch. but i guess they made that decision for me with the new pricing model.

>>106130362
>I get passed over for promotions and I have no idea why!

I married an American in California bay area. I have a year to start preparing. Im studying my A+ which is common sense shit, and I plan on getting everything up to the CCNA. How much do you think I can accomplish in a years time to prepare me for the bay area and it's competitiveness.
I'm not asking for 90k starting, but I'd be really happy to get 50k a year in tech and move up.

>>106130795
I passed the CCNA with no other prior certs and 0 IT experience after about 3 months of studying. I then started a NOC L1 job and basically knew nothing in terms of real world applicability. You say up to the CCNA, does that mean not including it? Cause I think you'll probably struggle even with a CCNA much less without one.

>>106130767
>2025 and he still thinks we live in a meritocracy
lol
lmao

>>106130795
>prepare me for the bay area and it's competitiveness.
Dog, it's a struggle getting an entry level job with a Berkley CS degree right now

>>106130795
>bay area and it's competitiveness.
You can start by learning proper English.

>>106130795
$50k is poverty in all but the most jobless rural areas, it's the equivalent of like $35k pre-covid. You might as well just do bullshit for the state government or retail at that point.

>>106127778
She regularly invited people from the office over to play videogames at her place, and her senpai was there a few times.
No, but I recently started hitting on her and it briefly seemed like it was going very well before I guess I fumbled it. Don't worry bros, I'll keep trying!

>>106129771
>>106130058
I have mild sleep apnea (no, I'm not fat) and recently started sleeping with a Breathe Right strip and my mouth taped shut, and ANECDOTALLY SPEAKING, I feel a lot better. The most quantifiable evidence I have is that I have gone from waking up to pee frequently (okay that's not an exact number, but it was a lot) to one or two times a night. I wish I tried this years ago.
Though I don't know if sleep apnea is your problem in the first place.

>>106130967
>$50k is poverty
if you have a wife and 5 kids and are the sole breadwinner, yaeh maybe
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-thresholds.html

>>106130967
If you had 50k but 3 kids you would be fine if we are talking prior 2018 prices. Now however you would be living off of your credit card. That also would not be a problem if interest rates were below 15% but now most are above that.

>>106130822
I don't get this mentality of skipping certs, I want to have all my bases covered. But yeah what I meant was "up to and including".
What did you start at.
>>106130947
You and my autocorrect can bite me.
>>106130967
"Poverty" for you. That's just life for most people. My wife is holding it down with 50k, when we pool our income we'll be fine.

>>106131290
>I don't get this mentality of skipping certs, I want to have all my bases covered.
But you'll have all your bases covered by doing the CCNA? There might be some stuff in the CCNA that's cisco specific while in N+ or whatever it's vendor neutral but you will know absolutely fuckall about real world problem-solving no matter what cert you get so its pointless to worry about minor shit like this.
>What did you start at.
I started at the CCNA because it was obvious to me that it's better to spend a few months more to get a cert that has at least a bit of value than to drone through multiple Comptia certs that are essentially worthless.

>>106130865
We'll see. I'm 28, I've done security, car sales, advertising, marketing. I'm the average anon when it comes to tech knowledge. I'm just skipping academia and going for certs. I'm sure it'll be just fine, I'll be happy with a help desk role and moving up to network admin.

>>106131333
> I'll be happy with a help desk role
lets see how you feel when you have to "troubleshoot" the same phantom downing of the same router at the same location for the 10th time that day and you sit there thinking wow this is literally the most inconsequential work a human could possibly do.

>>106131332
You're the first person I've heard of skipping certs and getting a job. Because I've heard a lot of complaints from anons who did the same and got laughed at for not having an A+.
Also what else was on your resume, and how much did you MAKE starting out. That's what I want to know. If just taking the CCNA was that easy everyone would do it.

man i dont know if i can make it through a whole week

>>106131357
>You're the first person I've heard of skipping certs and getting a job. Because I've heard a lot of complaints from anons who did the same and got laughed at for not having an A+.
Most likely those anons are either indians or they came from other industries that has no relation

>>106131352
What are you, a fucking child? Work is work. There are 40 year olds working as cashiers. I had to set up and put away tables and chairs for a car show.

I looked into pharmacy technician roles and Redditors bitched about having to simply speak to customers as if they were being water boarded. Everyone on the internet is so fucking pathetic since COVID.

What are you being paid? Do you get to go home on time? If you get paid well, and you don't have to stay late fixing shit then that's a good day of work to me.

>>106131333
You really should self educated alot more for IT. Even if you do not take more certs the content is good to learn off of.

>>106131380
errybody wanna be a software engineer

but dont nobody want this shitty ass code
I DO IT THOUGH YEPPPPP

>>106131357
>You're the first person I've heard of skipping certs and getting a job. Because I've heard a lot of complaints from anons who did the same and got laughed at for not having an A+.
Holy fuck are you dense? The CCNA covers the vast majority of all the lower level comptia certs. If you have a CCNA no hiring manager on earth is gonna ask you for A+ much less laugh at you for not having it. What the fuck. Maybe stick to whatever menial work you've been doing in your third world shithole, even a helpdesk is beyond your IQ level.

>>106131388
Ok so YOU lied, you clearly had prior experience that backed up the CCNA. You didn't just start from scratch and get a job using a single cert.

>>106131398
You're avoiding the question of if you had prior experience that backed up your CCNA.

>>106131392
I'm already studying professor Messer and Udemy for A+. I'd say I'm 80% knowledgeable about everything in tech, but the extra brush up is helpful.

>>106131399
Im nta. Im saying what usually happens when someone tells an applicant they need certs. It's usually cause they arent reputable initially.

>>106131420
>I passed the CCNA with no other prior certs and 0 IT experience after about 3 months of studying
I'm avoiding it by it being the first thing I said? Daft retard. I graduated with a meme business degree, fucked around for a year doing nothing and got a job at a NOC with just the CCNA and 0 work experience at all, not just 0 IT experience. That's it.

>>106131430
Yeah cover the basics, learn but don't bother getting certs for A+/Net+ then get Sec+(government requirement) then get CCNA after that you can focus on specialization. Alot of newer techs lack the basics and it hurts their chances of getting a job due to interview questions starting with simple shit. Which also weeds out brain dump testers.

>>106131433
>>106131435
Sorry for getting heated in the middle of the reply chain. Glad everything worked out for you and I genuinely wish you the best. I'll probably still do the A+ for posterity's sake and jump to net+ - then CCNA. I personally don't want to take shortcuts seeing how everyone is having a hard time jumping into the industry.

>>106131444
>don't bother getting certs for A+/Net+ then get Sec+(government requirement) then get CCNA after that you can focus on specialization.

Wait I'm confused what certs are you recommending

>>106131444
CCNA covers the basics. Is everyone in this thread retarded? Why would you do certs you don't need to? What the fuck

>>106131486
>>106131481
Learn to read i said learn A+/Net+ but only get Sec+/CCNA. Those certs matter for actual job applications but knowledge in A+/Net+ matters for the work itself

>>106131352
On the list of jobs that do and don't provide value, solving tech problems is definitely providing value.
Graphic design is definitely not. Advertising provides no value today and if you saw my LinkedIn page for the alumni I went to college with you'd think it'd be better they started sucking cock on the street because it would be less humiliation. The course made it feel like we would go on to do shit like in madmen, but with tech and internet it turned the Don Draper's into unemployed MLM peddlers.

Fixing a router is more comfy than listening to a lead brained boomer send you a 240px screenshot of a photo of their grandson and tell you to put it on a flyer to hang up on a grocery store because they refuse to pay money for SEO or social media ads.

>>106131511
Ok that's more clear thank you.

Oh WAAAAAAGIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

guess what time it is?

>>106131877
THIRTEEN HOURS
THIRTY NINE MINUTES
AND EIGHT SECONDS
UNTIL YOU WAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>106131877
>>106131888
incorrect. tomorrow is a civic holiday and i spend most of my office time browsing reddit anyway

>>106131888
for me it's 8 hours and 30 minutes. :'|

Anyone shitting on white zoomers is indian until proven jewish

>>106131932
t. useless zoomer

>>106131932
Do Indians even know what zoomers are?

>>106132042
t. street shitter

>>106117137
It's contrarian because there's a difference between chasing money at the expense of all else and being paid a shit wage. Even if you can survive on 60K, if you have options and/or the job is holding you back/you deserve better then you should go get another job.
>>106117572
picrel.
>>106116560
What is your expectations/resume/location/social/leet code skills? Don't answer, just reflect on that. Because if you did crap in college/don't have a tech degree/no connections/live in Midwest, 60K is good (for me at least). If you were a genius with a great resume/living in Cali, 60K is shit.
Ultimately the answer is who the fuck knows, we are a diverse group. You gotta answer it yourself. All I can tell you is start job hunting come next year for a better job (or be like me and get blessed with 14% yearly raise)

>>106132075
The ones who have infested middle management and have any role in their company's hiring processes certainly do
>>106132042
SAAAAAAAAAAAR

There's a job that offers six bucks more an hour compared to what I'm working now that I'm VAGUELY qualified for
BUT
it'd 5x my commute from 12 minutes to an hour.
Do I apply for it or is it a waste of time?

I am about to start a new role as a sissyadmin

>>106132338
do you hate your current job, like a lot?
cuz otherwise 48 x 2 = more than an hour and a half of every day extra that gets completely wiped and you're not getting paid for it

>>106132596
>do you hate your current job, like a lot?
"Like a lot," understatement of the century.
The other location opens me up to the possibility of moving state (that office is just over the border) BUT moving house isn't so trivial and there's never a guarantee that job will be around forever. So it's a gamble of
>stick to the burbs where I can fall back on minimum wage shit if the entire economy goes tits-up, but suck up pisisng away seven+ hours a week
>throw the dice on moving to God's country where the property taxes are slashed and I can own guns, and justify it with work being right there
And that's before I've even applied and given them a chance to send me a rejection email.

>>106116560
No. Even in LCOL cities in the South and Midwest, that's mediocre.

I honestly dream of just sitting on my ass Ina remote job watching old movies or reading while occassionaly having to answer a question for work. I get paid exceptionally enough that I can afford to retire in my 40s. It can find all my hobbies and investments and even allow me to start a business that changes grocery shopping

>>106131389
>Everyone on the internet is so fucking pathetic since COVID.

A lot of people have been pathetic long before that. Some people see certain jobs as beneath them, not realizing that realizing that even crappy jobs can be a starting point to better jobs or a stopgap solution to unemployment.

>>106132943
>even crappy jobs can be a starting point to better jobs
Not really anymore. There's zero reason to take a risk on someone that didn't follow the cursus honorum correctly, and if you took a detour into the wrong jobs or companies, you're assumed to be a retard.

>>106116560
Just kill yourself now. You're never gonna make it.

>>106132338
>Do I apply for it or is it a waste of time?
Interview practice is always good.

Shit I've lived in this tech town for 5 years now. It feels like I've just moved here though. My life exactly the same as when I arrived. I have no friends, no gf, no family, nothing... All I have is my job, which I hate.

>almost monday
please PLEASE don't do this to me

>>106133215
I realized that's how it was going to be after living in the hub I moved to after a couple years and moved back home. Cities are the most overrated bullshit if you're actually a professional.

>>106133226
Yes, Monday.
I'm already ready to leave for the office. I got a really avant-gardé task for today.

>>106131333
Don't listen to these anons, you can do it.
Helldiver's job isn't that bad and you can get experience, it's just that most of people don't want to get that experience.

I just had a dream where my dick was a sprinkler and was pissing in multiple directions at once. One of the streams went right in my face, my clothes were soaked with piss. I looked at my friend and he was mortified. Thankfully, this was just in the dream. I got up and took a regular piss soon after. In the dream, Creedence Clearwater Revival's Green River was playing.

>>106133215
>tfw no longer have hot girls in my class to casually meet
>tfw no longer have fraternity-sorority mixers to easily meet hot girls
I'm starting to get worried, I'm a getting a bit long in the tooth and I haven't met any girls I want to date since moving to this new city

>>106133341
I don't actually live in a city. It's more of a suburban tech town outside of one of the big tech cities. It's a nice suburban town though.
>>106133440
I'm almost 40, and I never did any of that shit when I was in college or in my 20s or in my early 30s. My who life has basically been a waste of time

I hate that there's zero information online on FAGMAN product design engineer interviews. It's basically me going in with some information and industry experience and then playing Russian Roulette if the hiring manager is going to ask a question that's completely outside of scope.

>>106133477
>almost 40
Fill your free time with Nintendo games and anime I guess

>>106133477
>I'm almost 40, and I never did any of that shit when I was in college or in my 20s or in my early 30s. My who life has basically been a waste of time
nta but same. I'm trying to find a way out of tech but shit is fucking slow

>>106133477
>I'm almost 40, and I never did any of that shit when I was in college or in my 20s or in my early 30s. My who life has basically been a waste of time
nta but same. I'm trying to find a way out of tech asap but everything sucks atm

>>106133679
I like working in tech, I like computers, I like coding, I like solving the problems
I'm just really bad at being with people. I can get by in a professional setting pretty well, I actually have decent "soft skills", at least the basic ones. But doing anything socially I'm useless at. I get so anxious to say anything, and then when I do I weird people out or annoy them. I'd like to have some friends, but I guess this is the life I chose so whatever, I'm fine with it I guess

im starting to like my job

>>106133824
that's how they get ya

>>106133816
it's almost the same for me except I can behave better and I think people don't give much of a fuck if I do something weird just because I'm good looking.
but I hate meeting with people. lately I've been realizing that even my "best friends" have started judging me for whatever reasons

>>106134037
My friendships with most people in my life I've felt have always been in a precarious position, as if they were on the fringe of collapse at any moment. I partly believe this is due to the dynamic and varied nature of people. Some people you drift apart from, some outgrow you and others you outgrow. In my case, I believe there's an additional and volatile factor at play and it's how I interact with other people. I've always been an outlandish but reserved person. I believe this combination is often interpreted at apathy and sometimes even antipathy directed personally at whoever I'm speaking to. It's a combination born partly from a neurological disorder and partly from feeling alienated during my formative years. The people who I'm close friends with are universally those who are open to new experiences. The reason is because we're able to rapidly bond on niche interests that are not frequently discussed among most people. It also allows whatever social deficits I have in how I present myself to be interpreted as quirks rather than something malicious. Unless you're somebody who has been vetted as distinguished somehow (be it in character or achievement), the more idiosyncrasies you exude the more threatening you appear to somebody who is not high in openness. Without social proof, drifting too far from social norms is more likely to earn you the label "weird" than it is "maverick".

>>106134160
My sociopath detector is beeping on that one.

>looking for second job
>get to interview stage for one
>they give me an online coding challenge link
>Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree type shit
>using node
>since this is for a frontend position

Dropped. Not doing leetcode shit when I've been leveraging AI for the past 2 years to start my own business and get a raise at my current job. Add it to the list of useless knowledge.

Just learned that my brother in law makes more money as a pipe fitter than me developing software.
The meme is true.

here we go again...

>>106134682
its not too late to learn a trade

>>106119495
We are fucking dying in here. Fick off, we are full

>>106134832
Poor Skye.

>>106134682

by pipe fitting you mean gay porn, right? he's an of whore?

Rejected after the final interview with CTO.

Worst thing is, I really liked the guy and I thought he liked me as well. Seems I was wrong.


I am so fucking tired of my current jeet-infested work with shitty projects and management, holy fuck. Feels like I am stuck here and there’s no way out, especially after all these rejections.

>>106113733
>>>106112542 (OP)(OP)
>why is the OP image that tetsuo twitter faggot?
Came to post this.

>>106135776
>shitty projects
Like what? You can usually make any project fun if you try.

>>106135877

that's what my gay porn director told me

another day WFH not doing a whole lot. I save up all of my actual work in the office, anyone else?

I fuckin love Mondays

>>106136444
Yeah I did that all the time when I was hybrid.
Now that its full time in office I dont work at all.

>>106136652
for me, it's Friday. even my management slacks hard and WFH on Friday. it's almost like 3 day weekend. 4 day weekend if you include Monday.

>>106136444
I'm definitely more productive in the office. I have to admit it.

>>106136822
I'm more reproductive in the office, to tell you the truth.

>>106136822
I find that people really like to bullshit and talk in the office. if I put my head down and work, sure I'm more productive in the office, but overall I'd say I'd get more work done at home

>huge trip in a month and a half where I'm going to spend thousands of dollars just on fun shit / food / etc, not including the thousands I've already spent on flights and hotels for two weeks
>company just announced in a month we're being acquired (which is going to cause enormous layoffs because were severely bloated on headcount) and every technical team is now being evaluated behind our backs
Well, thats horrible fucking timing. Flights are non refundable, and half my hotels are as well. Being on the other side of the world and possibly knowing I don't have a job to return to is not ideal.

>>106136822
I'm significantly less productive because people like to come by my desk and yap at me when I do happen to be there. I was best friends with the guy everyone loved at the company, and now thats transferred onto me since he left.

Even if I wasn't being yapped at constantly, I'd still be less productive.

>>106137365
that sucks but really shit like that is absolutely out of your control so just roll with it and fuck em. and yeah I have this really really friendly guy that likes to come to my office and just talk for like a hour, hell I swear he's using me to run down the clock. it's all good I like this guy.

>company uses notion for documentation
>tasked with maintaining it
>well aware no one reads it
>start checking a guide
>do some changes and check page history
>boss is a huge jew and we have the free version
>you can't see changes older than 90 days unless you pay
>literally just add a couple of words here and there to change last updated date
>mark task as done after 3 days working around 1h
>set reminder in three months to do it again

Wow this AWS cert was a great use of my fucking time.
>tfw coming to grips with the fact that you're a groid monkey faggot useless piece of shit retard double faggot who's going to be fielding "NO JOB YET BUD?" questions from your parents until the heat death of the universe because you have no skills and your resume will never be seen by human eyes

>>106137781
>Notion
Time wasting the app just make him download notepad++ then word wrap it, in settings and be done with it.

>>106137783
The only cert I've ever seen have any value was the CISSP back in the 00s and 10s. I don't know if it's still valuable today.
Every other cert I've seen has just been a glorified checkbox.
That goes triply so for CSM!

>>106137970
None of them are worth anything. I'm a retarded faggot.

>>106138019
I'm not gonna call you retarded because I think we have all been fed the "you got a cert up to stay relevant!" bullshit.
But I will always make fun of the linkedin psychos who broadcast their CSM (certified scrum master) as some sort of praiseworthy credential. That one is too funny.

good morning sars, another monday, another bunch of pajeet-tier java tests to be developed

>>106138019
Time & place, job requirements are either hard, soft or in between. If the job you are going for requires it then like a degree it puts you on top of the pile. The actual education is still better than a degree so there is value in the cert for the employer.

so... monday thread?

>>106138412
>tfw in qa and sometimes don't even know what other people consider to be "good testing" anymore
I think qa is really valuable but I think I'm fighting a losing battle

>>106138444
I have the iron chains of <><>2 YEAR DEGREE<><>. My ceiling is desktop support. My experience is not worth anything. It's over.

>>106138782
>tfw in qa and sometimes don't even know what other people consider to be "good testing" anymore
Same anon, same
>I think qa is really valuable but I think I'm fighting a losing battle
no need to fight it as long as you're getting shit done and getting paid

Literally every company I've been at has been cutting QA at some point lmfao

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