I agree. I don't like receiving more than 1 voice message per week from a person. It's terrible when they start sending voice messages as 50% or more of their messages.
- Text messages require brevity.
- Depending on who you're talking to, Voice messages ramble on and on, without getting to the point. As a result, it can take minutes to understand a main point, rather than seconds as in the case of text message.
Just learned via another comment that playback can apparently be sped up to 1.5x or 2x. That's good, I'll have to look into that.
Scale back the "dream" and scale up the "grind". And of course, modularize.
"If you have a big dream and a small grind, you'll never accomplish the dream. But if you have a small dream and a big dream, you're much more likely to get it done" -- Paraphrasing Dr. Eric Thomas. [1]
Wow, another library (react-location) that shows TypeScript as its primary documentation language. And I see more and more jobs hiring for TypeScript developers.
I see Microsoft's 3 E's campaign strongly in action with TypeScript.
>"While I have a lot of respect for the creators of TS,"
Creators of TypeScript are Microsoft.
To any readers unfamiliar with TypeScript and Microsoft's ethics,
be sure to research their past corporate ethics to understand whether or not they are trustworthy as a company (or at least those who lead their overarching market strategies.
Here is one example, and to me, it describes where TypeScript is going (imho):
"The strategy's three phases are:
---> Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
---> Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.
---> Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions."
For this reason, out of sheer convictions in anti-unethical corporate behavior, I steer clear of TypeScript, and I encourage others to do so as well-- especially those who care about corporate ethics.
I certainly shall, now that you mention it. Hopefully it will help me put my mind at ease.
(I look to Lao Tzu on this... on maintaining internal peace and intention towards abundance "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future.")
About to be broke again. 35 years old approaching.
I do not recommend living in a tent, but it's doable. And I may be living in a tent again in 2-3 months. No worries thoguh, it's up to me to pull me out of that predicament, and I know it can be done. It's largely a matter of online presence, a decent resume (even if partially BS as a matter of necessity in terms of... surviving), luck, and strategy.
A former marketer, so I am used to marketing myself strategically, with sprinkles and even dollops of BS if necessary, in order to literally survive and afford food.
As they say-- Necessity is the mother of invention. And this situation is largely owed only to own previous decisions and misjudgements.
I think acceptance and comfortability with error messages (i.e. small failures nearly every step of the way) is the basis of one's career as a developer. We start knowing almost nothing, producing tons of errors as we go (which reduce relative to experience). And learning what those errors mean-- they guide us into proper development.
Errors are good given that they lead to learning. Frustration is fun.
1. Title:
A 29-year-old marketing expert used a weird resume to ___get 30,000 interviews___ in a week
2. A subheader bullet point:
Vidal's bot was used 30,000 times, and he ___got 14 online interviews___ and 11 job offers as a result.
Does 30,000 somehow equal 14?
(Answer: only if you equate 30,000 self-service chatbot conversations ("interviews" as claimed) as as meaningful and valuable as an actual human-to-human interview. Basically, this article has a deceptive clickbaity title.)
(I emailed BusinessInsider's corrections account about this.
[email protected])
Yep. A year ago, I worked 2.5 months, and quit, and the cash I had from those 2.5 months kept be afloat for about 9 months after leaving the company. Granted, I am super frugal, minimalist, and don't have kids/wife.
Now though, I had to take cash out of savings due to vehicle mechanical problems + not landing job as quickly as I hoped-- I've also not interviewed a ton, so I need to play it as a "numbers game" again.
In the area I set up my tent, I found many tents from previous campers-- transient laborers and fishermen I imagine.
Meals: Had fridge space at company's lunch room. I'd arrive early and have breakfast there, and lunch as well. For dinner, a Trangia camping stove and simple meals (canned soup; mixed vegetable & sausage soup; instant noodles, etc.)... or sometimes splurge and buy decent fresh, ready-to-eat food at a grocery store (such as a chicken/vegetable meal).
Showers: the local indoor public pool's locker room
Bathroom: At work. Train yourself to systematically drop #2 in the morning like clockwork, and everything else is a breeze. Disposable wet-wipes to reduce the need to shower.
Dating: I actually met a rock climbing/wilderness medicine instructor lady at a bar who was interested in checking out my tent and she even spent the night. Whereas, a different women, when she heard I was temporarily staying in a tent, lost all interest in me (I don't blame her-- totally normal).
All in all, I suffered some depression, social isolation, and general lifestyle inconvenience. But looking back, it sure helped me get through my graduate statistics course! "If I can live in that tent in Juneau on the mountainside, I can get through this stats course"
After that trip to Alaska, where I studied some JS (ember, knockout), I went to Oregon, interviewed for frontend web dev jobs but failed, and just went back to working in corporate marketing. But I kept studying JS. I quit the job, went to grad school, graduated. Got a business analyst/programming job. Got laid off within a few months. Then, started building a full stack app.
While building it, I stopped, applied to Jobs. Failed to get one. Then traveled to california, camped on the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz for about 3 weeks, going to cafes daily to applied to jobs. Still failed to get one (had interviews though).
Then realized "Why dont I just go rent a room in Mexico rather than camp in California?" drove to Mexico, rented a place for about 4 months, built most of web app. This, while about $15k in student debt from grad school. Luckily one of my parents gave me cash to pay off my credit card & student debt interest each month.
Then I moved to my home state and lived at friend's property (doing landscaping labor to pay my rent) for 4 more months. Published the web app. Got my first 100% programming job. Then a few months later got an even better one.
And then... burned out after about a year as a full stack dev at a digital marketing consulting agency, and went on sabbatical.
So, I definitely failed several times. But I knew that once I had demonstrable skills & showed them via a website and open source full stack app, that I would succeed in landing a SWE job.
compensation on psuedo-homeless adventure:
$13/hr in Alaska, fish smokehouse, age 28. (previously made $20/hr in digital marketer, and afterwards $25/hr in general marketing management)
total compensation 5 years later at age 33:
$180k/yr (includes 2/3rds salary, 1/3rd equity)
current total compensation: none. quit the above job after just 3 months b/c I didn't like the management culture. Down to about $4k to my name, uh oh! luckily doing some interviews now... And the winter is coming, so down here in the South, if I need to camp again, I know what it's like-- it ain't so bad :D
I don't recommend reasoning from a position of exercising one's ideology.
"You shouldn’t have to spend months living in tents, working part time, to develop an in-demand skill."
One has to develop in-demand skills to participate in the economy, and to therefore have a reasonable degree of assurance they can financially depend on themselves. Some folks might have savings or family help, others might have to camp in woods for a few months. No one should expect handouts.
In some cases, people make mistakes that result in going broke financially. I can't claim that they should be shielded from consequences, I certainly can't shield them, nor do I expect taxes to be used to shield them. And, no one can force such a person to develop skills.
Take me: I made the mistake of not using college wisely-- I studied liberal arts. Later, I lived in a tent while building my IT skills.
In large part I lived in the tent so I wouldn't have to work 40 hours/week in front of a computer, just to come home to sit and try to learn to become a web app developer after work. That would be terribly unhealthy mentally and physically.
There's no solution (in my opinion) except to accept accountability for ones' career development. See, you've brought up that WEALTH leads to different outcomes. But guess what-- So does EFFORT.
You can't force a person to put in the effort into a career. Even if you give them money, they still might not put in effort (example: trust fund kids)-- they have to do it for their self, from a place of intrinsic motivation.
The recently common this anti-merit, neo-marxist, pro-identity political ideological stuff reminds me of just that: People forgetting the influence of Personal Accountability and Differences in Effort, on life outcomes.
I'd suggest taking your ideology out of your reasoning and assessments. It might fog up or clog up those reasoning abilities.
It's not "supposed to be" any way whatsoever-- Neither The Universe nor The Global Economy depend on human senses of fairness or opinions.
>only the wealthy can afford to study the arts and be productive as an artist.
"study", "afford", and "productive" to me sound vague and subjective. One needs only sources of knowledge (even if its simply experimentation), willpower, food, and water, in order to download knowledge into their brain (and then to apply that knowledge by building small projects to demonstrate skills to future employers).
Nor does a person need to be independently wealthy to take time off. I was in debt $3000 on a credit card by the time I arrived in Juneau, Alaska and within two weeks started working at $13/hr at a fish smokehouse, while camping on a nearby mountainside. And I had a janky 2003 toyota corolla (trip was in 2015).
From where in your mind do you generate these fearful presuppositions? Success is determined by many factors, but they include Strategy, Willpower, Resourcefulness, Willingness to fail. And sure, you can throw preexisting wealth into there and weight it however you want, in a predictive equation. But ultimately that is taking the accountability away from the individual and presenting a false dichotomy ("a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.") [1].
There's no rulebook that says "You have to be wealthy to study art" or "You have to pay money to study art" or "You can't take time off to study <thing>."
You definitely can. You can live in a tent, you can use your company's lunchroom for breakfast and lunch, and cook dinner on your camping stove. You can find public bathroom facilities. All of this can be done. Is it inconvenient? Does it require sacrifice? Hence one should do so strategically, and only for goals with high ROI (such as investing in yourself by building skills that are in high demand).
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Heck, Wealth and Art is a conversation all its own. The value of artists and art is different in different cultures. And the utility of art, in most cases, is very low. Hence it is a "luxury pursuit" that even primitive tribes engaged in back in prehistory-- when they had the "luxury" of some ... "time off" :)
Lastly, just using basic reasoning, I ask you this: Has Art not existed before wealth? Are art and poverty mutually exclusive? I think your argument is lacking, in addressing these two questions, especially given the amount of artists (especially in music) who arise from impoverished conditions.
I would also encourage you to do some research on artists from unconvential backgrounds. Such as former boxer and world-renowned architect Tadao Ando. Do a quick online search for "Famous Artists Who Were Self-Taught" to find many more.
>"Is a software developer who makes a dating app doing one or the other? What about the designer?"
I'd look at this from a... step back.
"Software Developer" is all you need to know.
For example a Mechanical Engineer designing a product on a CAD-- Product A is a machine interface Product B is a car seat for young children. One could argue Product B is more people-oriented. But that's irrelevant. We're talking about the occupation, not the product. The occupation is making things primarily on a computer in this case.
Software Developer --> Spends XX% of time working with Things (computer) and XX% of time working with People
vs
<other occupation> --> Spends XX% of time working with Things (<occupation-pertinent inanimate object(s)>) and XX% of time working with People
...And sure, there are different types of Software Engineers ("SWE")-- Some SWEs are heads down programming 80% of time w/ 20% of meetings (for example). Solutions Engineers ("SE") are the reverse-- 20/80. The latter is more social. But to become a SE is dependent on SWE skills, therefore I consider it a variant of the primary category of SWE, whose main focus is working on a computer. Not working face-to-face with a human to participate with them in some social activity (such as sales, nursing, management, or a job with a lot of meetings).
While teaching myself web development I spent 4 months in a tent (Texas), then later 2 months in a tent (Alaska), and later 2 more months in a tent (Oregon). In the first two cases, I worked part time (event marketing; fish smokehouse) in order to focus on learning new skills rather than working dead-end jobs.
If one is financially destitute though, definitely do research on skills which are in demand-- such a person can't afford to specialize in something which is financially unproductive.
I learned software development primarily because I saw Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showing its high demand and future growth. (Fortunately I found that it suits my personality and interests)
But to live in a tent (or make lifestyle or financial sacrifices in general) as a PhD student studying something which doesn't have a high economic demand nor utility... To me is just unwise.
>-Oversaturated market, learntocode, let's be honest and say for 95% of companies, web devs are a commodity. I don't have an issue with people who are excited and want to learn coding, but the reality is the job market is over stuffed.
It's interesting you say that.
Based on one source [1] there is a 10% decrease in job outlook 2020-2030 for "computer programmers".
Another says [2] there is a 22% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 for "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers"
"Info Security Analyst" [3] shows a 33% increase in job outlook 2020-2030
Yet in another another... The annual projected job openings for software developer for 2018 - 2028 is 134,000. [4]
That's 1.34 million job openings over the course of those ten years.