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i tried it, used up all my connects and only got one conversation out of it where i was competing for rates that are ok in India and even after I accepted that the guy just ghosted me and I couldn’t get my connects back. completely not worth it. you are better off doing craigslist computer repair.
personally i don’t have the luxury of avoiding any job posts and i know the right answers to give them and just do that. once on the job I do agitate, educate and organize, though. the thing is, though, I also DID have a passion for my job for many years but over the years its gotten harder to really enjoy it like I used to when I was younger. I still find personal and hobby projects fun, though and get excited by tech but getting excited about being exploited is just much harder these days, even if the pay and benefits are 2-5 times better than what my friends are making.
breathing exercises, intense exercise, taking timeout to think about about all your stressors and what actions you can take to reduce them in meaningful ways. i also get really mad and stressed out and close to shutting down sometimes/often. im trying to get into a DBT skills course on top of what i already mentioned as things that have been helpful for me but yeah
If you’re a senior engineer, then you should have a team of juniors doing most of the coding. Your job is to architect, peer review, meet with stakeholders, etc… At least that has been my experience. Unless you are on one of those small teams with all senior engineers and then you have to do all of the above, and the coding too. I’ve had that experience as well.
small team with inexperienced new people that needed a lot of training and we also had “architect” positions and those guys I would never even see or talk to, they were in their own realm somewhere isolated from the actual work. what you are describing was more like the “principal” engineer and we had one of those and he was mostly only doing meetings and occasionally doing some work when the itch struck him sufficiently
Yeah, you either work extra hours or you work during the meetings or both or you get de-skilled pretty quickly unless you work open source, second job or personal projects in the non-work hours. Otherwise, you can treat it like BS job but your skills will become BS and you will have to get better at lying and or potentially go into management with that level of experience. RN I’m unemployed and I’d gladly take any position, even if I’m qualified for senior, and I don’t care if I have to work extra hours to keep up and this is coming from someone who has been actively organizing on the job at my last two tech jobs.
similar situation, though ill start running low after unemployment runs out and i have another 4 months of that, so will probably start panicking then. im already pretty stressed