About 15 hours a week. No full time job, I was building my own products in the rest of my time. I now work on my own products full time (flightsim addons)
Has that worked for anyone here? The most I get after answering a cold email/LinkedIn message with my salary requirements is something along the lines of "that's doable," and finding out later the client had an appetite for a senior with the budget for an entry level.
Don't give the number first, insist of getting the number or no further reply.
Typical recruiter (or any saleman for than matter) wants to drag you into personal sales dance conversation - the key is to avoid wasting your time until they open the cards.
Just plain ignore typical "it depends on level", "lots of upside", "super competitive", "willing to match" or whatever they come up with and wait until specific reply upon your specific request.
Honestly nobody should be reading too deeply into the Wework thing. When you take away the name recognition, it' a shared office space that charges 3x it's competitors and is out of coffee creamer 2-3 days a week. Turns out it doesn't have rock solid business value after all. Whoop-dee-doo.
No, and there's absolutely no need to be. It's perfectly fine to be concerned about climate change, but if you're experiencing anxiety or depression, it's best to seek help and overcome that. It's still a vast and complex discussion of what to be done, but as soon as you subject yourself to the climate hysteria (with the latest outlandish and untrue(https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/no-climate...) claim being that the world will end in 12 years), you're being manipulated by politicians, media outlets, and other charlatans for fun and profit.
Glassdoor has made themselves next to meaningless since they'll take money from anyone who wants their bad reviews taken down and honestly we need a new player in the area who actually cares about transparency over taking bribes.
You may benefit from seeing a neurologist over possible migraines. Everyone's symptoms/triggers are different, and some factor of the screentime, workload, thinking with programming, and stress could be giving these symptoms.
Generally you need to understand the concept of showing vs. telling which is described in the very first chapter of that book.
The other thing you just need to do is read the masters. Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Try to find an example of some compelling fiction for yourself, something that moves you. then try to find some cliff notes or a summary regarding that's story's plot. The information is there, but the emotional reaction, the thing that moves you is missing from the summary.
There is a story called "Litost" by Milan Kindera, that in my opinion does a very good job of explaining this without breaking the mood of the story through boring exposition. At its heart the story is simply about a youth in an affair with an older woman and unrequited love. But real compelling fiction is not just the story.
It comes from a word without English equivalent. Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery”
Try to find a copy of the story and read it. I looked for a link but couldn't find anything. Try to avoid reading literary criticism initially.
Cal Newport mentioned in his last book Digital Minimalsim about the benefits of learning and accomplishing something with your hands in the real world, and how it's argued to further energize whatever else you do it, be it digital.
Something that's a switch of gears from "deep, isolated knowledge work" to more action, people, managerial oriented work. Project management, realtor, small business owner, recruiter.
If I'm tasked with something, it may take me a day or it may take me a week depending on how well I can think my way to a solution. Maybe it never comes, maybe I'm spending days searching the same SO answers for a morsel of insight or inspiration from poorly written documentation to solve a problem. Drinking coffee, staying up late, maybe it bleeds into personal life, that urge to keep looking into it to finally put an end to the task and deep dizsatisfaction.
I'm often jealous of people in other jobs that aren't this way, that are more "just hustle and do it," where at the end if the day, you either did the work to progress your position/project/whatever, or you didn't. And if you just got up in the morning and physically and metaphorically "showed up" for the job, there was a far lesser chance you'd just stare a screen to no discernable result for 8 hours and feel a sense that no progress was made.
I dont have to ask anything, the interview process normally speaks for itself. If they have the emotional intelligence to have a mature discussion about their company, product, and after questions to you, they sell themselves as a potential employer, it's a good sign. If it's mostly inane gotcha questions followed by an email to do 3 hours of leetcode monkey tricks, I've seen all I need to see about the how they view the quality of leadership.
