unquietwiki

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20 years in IT, and my career is effectively stuck

If you look up my username on LinkedIn, you can get a good summary of my career. Most of my jobs have been go in, fix things, then on to the next thing; though the immediate COVID period was pretty bumpy in that regard (shorter-term gigs). I’m pretty sure I need another cert or two at this point, but have had some family...

unquietwiki,

By fake recruiters and spam for PMP training…

unquietwiki,

Thanks for digging into this on your end. Yeah, that 7 year stint was with an outfit wherein I was the constant, and everyone else kept coming & going. The 3 year job, I got canned for an overtime dispute; and they replaced me with two people after. The rest are a mix of layoffs or other reasons for not staying: I’m not one to just “quit”. Give me the right org; that’s not overly worried about being cheap, or has too many people coming & going; and I’d be happy to stay. Otherwise, I feel like my career has been more or less a “firefighter” vs a “builder” (I had to do both in the 7 year job). I hope that makes some kind of sense?

unquietwiki,

Indeed bought out GlassDoor, so I’ve been using that instead; as well as LinkedIn & whatnot. Market’s also apparently more amenable to novices and specialized folks right now, so you’re going to have better luck than a lot of us I think!

unquietwiki,

I’ll have a look! Thanks!

unquietwiki,

I got on Hired; the other three seem to be more for full-time devs (I’ve done dev work in support of my jobs, but not as a job in itself).

How to handle the erasure of your 'digital legacy'?

I’ve been struggling with something for a while now and ironically a sitcom from the 80’s finally helped me pinpoint the problem. My TV was on for background noise and I noticed that it was an episode of Family Ties. In the episode, Elyse Keaton was having a problem. A prominent building that she designed was being torn down...

unquietwiki,

Struggling a little with this too. The distance of time is my biggest grief: it’s hard to apply for jobs, when my most relative experience for various roles is 5-10 years old. And the further along in my career, the less there is to show, or people to speak up for what I accomplished. “Did I really do that, at all”… worst case of imposter syndrome I can think of.

unquietwiki,

I think that’s been asked before. That’d be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don’t think Rust does (yet).

unquietwiki,

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you’re not using Kotlin, you’re probably using Java for Android dev.

unquietwiki,

If NAT64/DNS64 isn’t an option, setting up a small proxy server on an OpenWRT or OPNsense router might work. That assumes you have access to public IPv6; which at that point, you’re better off using said router to provide dual-stack internally.

unquietwiki,

He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more “kooky” libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it’s hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had…

Why do they keep making new languages

Why are there so many programming languages? And why are there still being so many made? I would think you would try to perfect what you have instead of making new ones all the time. I understand you need new languages sometimes like quantumcomputing or some newer tech like that. But for pc you would think there would be some...

unquietwiki,

If any of you happen to still be on Reddit, I actually maintain a “catalog” of these newer languages, as they come across my radar. One of my more recent finds is MiniScript, which the author of that has been using to port a fair amount of classic BASIC games from that GitHub archive I posted about recently. I got sucked into Nim, which seems like a good synthesis of Python, Javascript, and C++; c/nim exists for anyone interested.

unquietwiki,

I saw that list, and figured that they were distancing themselves from obsolete encryption (MD5 & SHA-1), as well as remove database management from their scope (which seems like the right move, IMO).

unquietwiki,
  1. Unemployment will ask you to track your job applications and will usually demand documentation as well; I had to do this in Florida and California. Keep a log of your applications, and use it to follow up with places as you can. I have an example I posted for showing others.
  2. You may need to reformat your resume to ensure it can pass the ATS systems for acceptance into HR systems and/or auto-filling applications. Some resumes & CVs like to have you rank your skills: skip that; it’s arbitrary & throws off the scanners. But you may need a keyword section, ugly as it is, highlighting what you have used in the past. Also, a friend gave me a tip to reformat some of my job summaries with the help of ChatGPT; this will have some trial-and-error, but it might be helpful.
  3. As you start looking for jobs, notice what people are asking for. There might be skill sets you are lacking that you can use this time to improve upon. I’m an IT generalist myself: I struggle to figure out what exactly I should be targeting, but cloud-systems (AWS & Azure especially) come up a lot in my searches.
  4. Actual job hunting… I’ve had luck with LinkedIn, GlassDoor/Indeed, Reddit, and even have looked on Craigslist. There might be other websites that folks have come up with to help laid-off folks find work; I see those posted to LinkedIn a fair bit.
  5. As was already said, don’t forget to go over your budget & start figuring out the hard breakpoints between staying in your field, vs “I need work tomorrow”. That being said, nobody’s shared with me the secret to looking like you’re not going to bail for something better / more-fitting; remember that they’re hiring with basically the same criteria for their needs, as you will in your own field.

I hope this helps. Good luck out there.

unquietwiki,

It looks like ceev.io is winding down, so may want to do something else instead. My current one is based on a Google Docs resume template, saved to an ODF file for LibreOffice: I find its editing and PDF export to be more reliable for this purpose. Scanning resumes, www.jobscan.co has come up in searches & I think I used it in the past; can’t remember off-hand what it was I was using before.

unquietwiki,

programming.dev pings over IPv6. Basically, any instance being hosted via Vultr should have IPv6 by default.

unquietwiki,

Hey there! Yeah it’s me, from r/ipv6. Thanks for pointing that out about Cloudflare, I forget it can do that. And hope you are keeping well!

unquietwiki,

It’s still a relatively new community, all things considered. I helped spin up a Discord for the r/ipv6 folks, else we’ve been trying to decide if we should have folks come here too. I reached out to the mod for insight.

unquietwiki,

Good to know. You make a good point about the direction of traffic: folks will definitely pull more from here, than folks here requesting from other servers. And TIL inbound traffic is free on Vultr, so you don't have to worry about that cost at least.

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