My first Adult Job (not a teenager job) lasted 4 years and ended in 2001. After that I became a freelancer. Since then, the longest gig I’ve had is 11 weeks or 1-2 weeks every 4-6 weeks for about 4 years. Otherwise, I have worked with clients 2 hours to 5 days at a time.
I got away with that for 25 years and now I’m struggling to figure out what happens next.
Make sure? Impossible.
All jobs are an experiment and a guess. Interviewers are often on their best behavior, just like candidates are. There is no way to know. Hope for the best and be ready to leave, to the best of your ability.
I’m really very sorry that the situation isn’t better for you. I believe I’m facing similar issues.
Good luck. Peace.
Given the stereotypical difficulty of “product folks” and programmers agreeing on and building shared understanding of what to build, this joke seems clear and straightforward. It works because of course, the customer and the programmer failed to agree on something simple.
When we had several, I tended to use the name only to distinguish them; otherwise, they were all simply “cat”.
Cool.
People are responsible for their choices and people are not to blame for the influences they had no power to refuse. We could help them overcome those influences, but it’s tiring when their influences seem more prolific and powerful than our patience.
Two strategies that decrease the amount of empathy in the world:
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No worse nor better than “10 stone, 8”.
I was going to lead with “Don’t assume that other people have it right and you don’t” combined with “Most people are sleepwalking through life, so be careful about asking random strangers for advice”; however, I like this list and hope more people will upvote it.
Not in one move.
I was your breakfast…
New Dutch programming language just dropped.
For answering a question, no limit on elapsed time, as long as your answer can actually be helpful.
Idiots began to demand perpetual growth and other idiots began trying to make it happen. And then it became institutionalized. And then the idiots forgot they were idiots.
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I use the language that I think my interlocutor would prefer. If I don’t know, then I default to the language of the social context, unless I specifically want to practise a language at that moment. If I want to practise, then I ask first.
It doesn’t.
Humans want information to be free. Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources. It causes power imbalances. Free information means that power is more evenly distributed.
It has its moments, but it also led to significant terror every year, wondering whether this would be the last year people would hire me.
I started accidentally. I stockpiled cash from my IBM job, then I wrote some things about a topic that was becoming popular. Then people noticed me. Since I didn’t have to settle for another crappy job, I could take a chance on doing a few gigs that paid good money.
Two years later, somebody identified me as The Person to write The Next Book on that topic. And then a few influential people amplified me.
And then a few more.
That was the luck I needed.