arthurfirst 2 days ago

I earned their respect over many years of hard work -- hardly a freebie!

I will say that being social and being in a scene at the right time helps a lot -- timing is indeed almost everything.

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  • moralestapia 2 days ago

    >I will say that being social and being in a scene at the right time helps a lot

    I concur with that and that's what I tell every single junior/young dev. that asks for advice: get out there and get noticed!

    People who prefer to lead more private lives, or are more reserved in general, have far fewer opportunities coming their way, they're forced to take the hard path.

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jfindper 2 days ago

>I'm not for/or against a particular style, it must be real nice if life just solves everything for you while you just chill or whatever. But, a nice upside of being made of talent instead of luck is that when luck starts to run out, well, ... you'll be fine anyway :).

This is wildly condescending. Holy.

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rozap 2 days ago

Talent makes luck. Ex-colleagues reach out to me and ask me to work with them because they know the type of work I do, not because it's lucky.

Also wtf did I just read. Op said he uses his network to find work. And you go on a rant about how you're rising and grinding to get that bread, and everything you have ever earned completely comes from you, no help from others? Jesus Christ dude, chill out.

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  • moralestapia 2 days ago

    My perspective is just as valid, and I also wrote,

    >I'm not for/or against a particular style

    ... so I'm not sure why some of you took offense in my comment, but I can definitely imagine why :)

    >Ex-colleagues reach out to me and ask me to work with them

    Never happened to me, that's the point I'm making.

    1. I wish work just landed at my feet.

    2. As that never happened and most likely was never going to happen, I had to learn another set of skills to overcome that.

    3. That made me a much more resilient individual.

    (4. This is not meant as criticism to @arthurfirst's style. I wish clients just called me and I didn't have to save all that money/time I spend taking care of that)

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    • jfindper 2 days ago

      >>I'm not for/or against a particular style

      ... so I'm not sure why some of you took offense in my comment, but I can definitely imagine why :)

      Because surrounding your extremely condescending take with "just my opinion"-style hedging still results in an extremely condescending take.

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