ta94455 · HackerTrans

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Maybe try an operations teams at a <200-300 employee company? Been on a few platform operations teams/systems operations teams where most people are working in yaml or one-off cli tools. Those teams are usually a mix of people who can code and can't. If you can code you get a lot of freedom to work on whatever you want without sprints/strict design docs/required tests. Just need to make sure a potential team has enough people that not everyone is fire fighting all the time. Pay is good at the right company.

ta94455

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My father worked for a large telecommunications provider in the late 90's, after their merger he was left as the site manager but with no employees. Just him and the custodial staff in the building for ~2 years. The site was 7 minutes from our house and was mostly defunct. He'd show up at 9am, come home for lunch, then back to the office and leave at 3. Occasionally he'd need to reboot something or ship back infrastructure but primarily he would spend his time watching historical Korean dramas on PBS and learned conversational Korean from it.

ta94455

4 года назадdiscuss

Over the years I've found I'm an emotional drinker. If I'm tired or having a bad day getting drunk will make my forget about it. If I've had a wonderful day getting drunk will carry that enthusiasm into the night. I haven't permanently quit but told myself I'd take a year off to see if I could do it, I liked this approach because thinking about _never_ drinking again seemed unachievable. 3 weeks left and no desire to start drinking again.

Something that I found really effective was quitting caffeine the same day I stopped drinking. I went from drinking 6+ drinks most nights and 6-7 cups of coffee a day to nothing. First three weeks were terrible, drank 6-8 cups of strong chamomile tea throughout the day to help curb anxiety, kept candy around to deal with the sugar cravings. Throughout the year when I would get a craving to drink I'd have a coffee or energy drink and that usually altered my mood enough to satisfy the craving for a drink. Hard part there is not to allow caffeine to become a daily habit and keep it as a break glass. Around 5-6 months I found there was a big jump in mental clarity, after 10 months I hardly think about drinking.

Around the same time I quit I started getting up at 5am instead of 9am, I'm not very productive in the morning, some days I get some exercise or chores in but most days I just sit around on my phone until I start working around 8 or 9(phone addiction is my next vice to work on). This allows me to fall asleep by 10 and prevent the late night boredom which often lead to drinking. Having a fitness goal will help and you'll see how much easier it is to achieve without being hungover most of the week.

For social events I show up an hour or two late. By this point people have a few drinks in them and there's less pressure to drink to get conversation going since the work is done for you. Not perfect but it helps.

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