Its two weeks (and 1 day) until yiffit’s cake day (or at least post 1 and Wander’s cake day) Thank you @Wander For hosting and running yiffit this past year. 🥂
Not just my job, but the entire industry I’m in. I get paid really well, and I like some of the fine details, but overall I don’t like it. My skill-set isn’t very transferable either.
I’ve sucked it up for 10 years, and I have enough in savings for several years. The work itself is fine, its more of the context of the work. If its not something new to me it feels like busywork and I don’t really see the point. I’m really not sure what I want to do. I have a personal project I’m working on, that I think I could make money, but I don’t know if after I’m done with the interesting technical challenges if I want to see it through. There are several jobs that on the surface seem to agree with me, but I don’t know if the reality would work out. I could more easily suck it up if I at least felt fulfilled, or that I did something positive, but I don’t get that feeling.
I might not mind it as much if I was physically closer to my family, but I’m over 600 miles so its a 12 hours trip to see them. they live 2.5 hours from the closest major airport so flying commercial is not faster.
The problem is with my skill-set is without having an idea for my own company, I can either work for big tech, or defense contractors. Neither are appealing to me.
My degree was what seemed like fun. At the time I didn’t think of any long term implications. I still think the details could be fun if it was a novel challenge. But yea, my personal philosophy doesn’t really align with my work.
Wile working for my previous employer, the people around me were amazing, the organization and high level leadership, not so much. Myself and many co-workers left within about 6 months of each other. My old boss is leading a new field office for a different company in the city, and many of my previous coworkers are still working for him. I’ve been lucky about good direct reports. I hate any meetings that are not technical; I find them draining and pointless. Blind obedience to the agile development process can go die in a hole.
Skill sets take years, you get pigeonholed pretty fast. Major changes to skill sets take years and can cost a bit of money. Pretty much the only companies that would want my skill set are companies that I wouldn’t want to work for.
Funny you mention a doorbell; I used 3 pi-0ws (front door, back door, chime) to make a wireless doorbell for my parents. No video or notifications, just a remote chime. That was a fun project.
Don’t know about Julia, but your probably writing matlab “wrong” if you’re using indexes. (I’ve never used matlab correctly, but its not really my field). Its always confusing though.
I worked with pyqt for a project once, I’d almost call Qt its own language. As for GUIs, I generally work with embedded systems or scripting, so not much human interaction needed. And it works is my baseline for completeness, no fancy algorithms here. I probably program like Matt Parker. I’m trying to make a website, so I either need to find someone who wants to do the visual bits, or learn some HTML/CSS myself. I’m enjoying learning the server bits.
Almost cake day
Its two weeks (and 1 day) until yiffit’s cake day (or at least post 1 and Wander’s cake day) Thank you @Wander For hosting and running yiffit this past year. 🥂
I don't like my job
Not just my job, but the entire industry I’m in. I get paid really well, and I like some of the fine details, but overall I don’t like it. My skill-set isn’t very transferable either.
What was your first programming language? What is/are your most used?
My first was Matlab. Most used is probably python, and then you get into my professional niche, VHDL, C, TCL.
How are you?
How are you doing? Anything you want to brag about? Rant about? Just shout into the void?