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How Can I Work on Interesting Problems and get Paid Well?[mid life crisis]

16 points·by ilikeerp·5 jaar geleden·9 comments

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ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Low compared to the US - that's true of most places.

Low on a global scale? Absolutely not.

You're making it sound like we're living on minimum wage.

The average Java developer in London is within the top 5% of the UK in terms of salary.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
What's weird about limit how long it takes to load a page or limiting the resources your badly written scripts take? It's a SaaS platform, they can't just let your crappy work run loose and impact performance for everyone.

It presents a clearly defined model on how things should work. Maybe you're better off going back to your break-fix break-fix JS development....
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Depends what your ambitions are. I've seen SF devs move into architecture then move into tech consulting and make good money and grow strong careers. I've seen tech consultants grow to be partners at places like Deloitte or independent management consultants.

There's a whole industry in technology that doesn't' involve writing code and often pays very well. I once helped a large cosmetics company completely transform their business by designing and guiding their enterprise architecture. From crap order processing and slow delivery to best in class customer experience and very efficient supply chain. I didn't write a single line of code but I did bill them over 140k for less than 6 months of work.

After 10 years of SF, I would expect to be leading a large practice at a global consulting firm otherwise billing myself out as an SF architect for a very a healthy day rate.

If your ambition is to write javascript forever, then SF isn't really for you. I went from junior java dev to a top 1% salary off the back of a platform similar to SF and I did it in less than a decade.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
At the whim of oracle? Built 'on top' of oracle?

Using an Oracle DB doesn't make you a slave to Oracle Corp.

It's also not expensive. Some of the businesses cases I've seen for SF have a massive ROI.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
No comments because everyone here is a JS, break it until you make it, sort of developer with no real responsibilities.

Thanks for the downvotes you aspie, racist, and sexist spastics.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I am referring to section 2.3.1 of the strategy doc.

But hard to point someone to the right place without decent numbering.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Are you American? I tend to find tastes in tech differ across the pond. An American literally sent me a link to a google doc the other week - I couldn't believe anyone would send a final professional doc in anything other than Word - you can't even get proper section numbers without a poor plugin....
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I had fibre to the curb in QLD and fibre to the node in Sydney. Was the fastest broadband I've ever experienced!
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Everytime an engineer tries to push slack on a consultant all they see is a new interface, shit loads of noise, gifs etc (cultural issue rather than tech stack obviously) and no real extra benefit vs the cost of learning something new when what you have today ticks all the boxes.

I also use both as I'm a partner on the engineering side of the business but also run a large consulting pod - I really don't care which one anyone uses. I don't personally see Slack being better 'enough' to justify the effort of switching for those that are already on teams.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Where's the failure exactly? I use teams to manage a very large and globally distributed consulting team.

I'm not seeing anyone raise issues from within my organisations other than the engineering side of the business preferring slack.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Just avoid comments about peoples personal appearance all together. Maybe somebody doesn't want to be told they're short or dark or whatever. I was introduced to a guy via email and spoke to him on IRC for nearly a year before he came to the office, when he arrived he was wearing a dress and carrying a handbag - I decided to not comment on his appearance. Try it...
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
As well as being factually dubious, that didn't answer the question.
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
and here is one of two reviews (the other one isn't so good either).

"This is the worst book I have ever read. Not organized, inconsistent tabs, incorrect spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Many of the points on tax sales are not fully explained and the reader is left with gaping holes in understanding the tax sale process. Some of the points are incorrect on how the tax sale process works.

I would not recommend this kindle to anyone, especially someone someone looking for guidance on the tax sale process. Perhaps this kindle could be useful in an English class as an example of what not to do."
ilikeerp
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
You should seek a really good therapist, you're far too young to be 'over it' already.

You can live an authentic life, you just don't know how because 1, you're a kid with zero wisdom and 2, you don't yet know what is important (related to point 1).
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
If you hit 100k by the time your 30 you won't be paying it off into your 40's... Tech / consulting etc, not too hard to hit that number.
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
"The decline in total testosterone was observed even among men with normal body mass index."
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I bet you've never left your own country for more than a week to visit Mexico.... you're all theory and it's all nonsense.
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
It's not insane - it's pretty common in most developed countries. The US is a major outlier.
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Logically it's wrong. If you COULD care less then that means you do care to some level whereas most people mean you COULD NOT care less. Simple...
ilikeerp
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Yes, when enough people do / say something wrong over and over again, it sometimes becomes normalised.