throwcean's comments

This is the most immature and narcissistic comment I've read in a long time. I think you absolutely don't get what a relationship is about. Having a best friend as partner who is always around. Having kids that give a whole new meaning to live. Just mating with the next best babe will give you no long term satisfaction. What you describe here sounds more like an addiction.

Yea it is truly awful.. e.g. job search has become even worse than it was a few years ago. The only good platform (Stackoverflow) has closed its job search. Most jobs seem to be on Linkedin these days.

However for a while now Linkedin job search seemingly shows me random stuff.. I can search for C++ and find all kinds of Java, Javascript, PHP jobs. It is driving me mad.

Any recommendations for job search sites (maybe even with negative filters)? I know about Who is Hiring? of course but there are not too many jobs for my region usually.

> There are all kinds of people in this world, and we all live very different lives.

I can agree with that and I certainly don't care what people do with their lives as long as they don't harm others.

However there are people consuming a beer each evening for decades and they are totally fine.. I doubt that is possible with crack.

It is consumed at another scale, so it does more damage in total. That doesn't make alcohol more harmful as a drug.

What a nonsense.. there are millions of people drinking alcohol sporadically and are doing fine. I don't think there are that many people sporadically consuming crack and are doing fine. Now I guess you can define harmful in many ways and I didn't read the study and probably won't.

Out of personal curiosity.. where would you offer such trainings? As online courses? Or rather in person? How do you find customers/students?

Not defending the prices but it seems to be the same as with paintings. It's just some water color on a piece of paper isn't it? The materials certainly won't make the price of famous artworks.

Similar for me. I also work in a non FAANG but big, well-known company. This year's average salary increase was set to 2.7%, despite having a "record year" and despite last year only getting 1.2% "because of Corona".

I decided to leave and I am already in contact with some headhunters that were already nagging me on Linkedin etc. Good thing it's so easy to find a new job these days. Companies should try harder to hold their trained employees.

In the long run (maybe after my next job) I might turn to freelancing.

Always when these arguments come up I wonder: is there actually a tangible way to measure how much of this was because of Cook (or whatever other CEO)? Maybe he is just riding a wave of success?! Maybe someone else would have the exact same results?

To me it always seems that the success of a company is projected onto its upper management in an unhealthy way. Maybe I am just clueless however.

Good to know. My stack is mostly in the space of Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, backends, microservices, networking etc. I think it is kinda one of the hotter topics these days.. so that could help.

Thanks. That's valuable input for sure. I don't have the option to freelance for my current employer but that's OK. I know a few people that might know potential customers They have worked as freelancers themselves.

I will now go on reading your blog post and potentially others you have written. Thanks!

BTW I have read that advice to position yourself as a specialist in a niche before. For all others reading this thread here I can also recommend this article: https://andyadams.org/everything-i-know-about-freelancing/

Hi, thanks for the info. Indeed I know of both these sites but I didn't know the rates possible there. My first rough calculation gave me an estimate of 80€/hour as a lower bound. My target would be 100€ but it wouldn't be a problem to start out with 80€.

How much of the offers you are receiving are low-ball crap offers you would say? Also for how long are these contracts going on average? Thanks for your input.