Comment by mollusc-engine 3 days ago
I became a USPS mail carrier instead.
Certainly less pay but I love being outside and walking.
And no Jira, changing the color of that button, or steeping myself in Frank’s eldritch horror code.
Besides like trello asana redmine or the millions of less-complicated competitors? You literally have developers work on their own modules directly from the spec or work directly with the product owner. You track their work by looking at their commits. You check their progress by looking at how the preview build / staging looks. No overhead of having developers flesh out an entire issue/story (plus sub-issues) and then move it column-to-column across the entire Kanban board. Tracking sub-issues is like counting half-pennies instead of rounding up.
What about also excluding "Scrum Masters" and then "Fibonacci Numbers" and two week "sprints"?
Just dropping by to say how much I passionately hate documentation that uses fib() as an example.
Tried that here in EU - no chance so far: Even things I could do easily like office administration/management or whatever projectmanagement - no luck.
It’s a 1 hour application online.
Fingerprints, background checks, references, and drug testing.
It’s the CIA. But good benefits.
I would definitely try this if the vehicles in Phoenix ran cleaner. The old ones have such bad smelling exhaust and you are always breathing it because of the semi-open cab.
My wife and I have a running joke about her giving up accounting and working for USPS instead. Some days I think she’s serious.
It's funny how everyone wants to get into deliveries as they get older, my dad who's been an engineer for decades talks about it a lot. Something about walking around and doing things really appeals to people as they reach the end of their engineering career
You'll have to give some context. What did hella mean? How many months of your current spend rate do you have in the bank?
First off, the pay for a tenured mail carrier is plenty for me, and I feel like I have a full life.
I take martial arts classes, yoga classes, have nice apartment, eat what I want, have a decent car, etc.
I really don’t want anything, except ridiculous things no one can afford, like sure I’d be up for buying a Cathedral and converting it to a $20m house.
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Liquid 3 years (savings plus liquid investments). 2 years in IRA. Set to inherit somewhere between 20-40 years worth.
I just have to work to make ends meet, let my investments mature, and eventually inherit.
It feels weird because I love my parents, but it’s something to plan around nonetheless.
I continue a tech career making 200k+ a year and you try to sell me making 100k or less probably for the next 20 years as a win? Nah I love money to much and hella money is like 10m+ where I would chose something that in the next decades would make me so much less. Also no trajectory in career path. I'm happy it works for you but I wouldn't like that. On the other hand I have my big corpo wageslave job and my little own company and almost no free time sadly. I hope to have made enough money and can retire early at some point until then I grind.
I’m on track to retire at 45. I don’t have to do a job I hate until then.
I walk around all the time anyway, to any destination within the city. I have a car and still do this.
To each their own.
>No Jira
If I was trying to attract intelligent applicants looking for work outside of software engineering, that would be in the headline.