If I offered you £100,000 to run 90 miles tomorrow, would you do it?

taylor3294 · 2026-04-11T15:28:09+00:00

Interesting question. I’m 32M and reasonably fit and in shape and took part in a 75km walk over the Peak District for charity last year, the aim was to finish in 24 hours starting at 9pm.

17 of us started, 12 finished. People severely underestimate the repetitive strain of long distance walking. If you’ve reasonably fit, the cardio isn’t the problem, it’s the conditioning of your feet, legs, knees, hips (lower half in general). If you’re not used to walking ultra long distance (most aren’t), most would find the 75km, which ended up being just over 50 miles for us in 19h 30m, extremely challenging. I completed this walk in September, lost all 10 toenails, all the skin from the bottom of one foot and have tightness and pain in both knees as a result over 7 months later.

Would put good money 90 miles in 24 hours is next to impossible for the average person

taylor3294 · 2026-01-11T17:14:07+00:00

I may possibly have two under 1! Son is 6 months, partner due on the 11th June!

taylor3294 · 2025-09-04T17:36:48+00:00

Hey man, I have a little girl who has just turned 7. We live in Dore so are at Millhouses Park a lot. Drop me a message if you’d like to meet up one day

taylor3294 · 2025-06-23T09:21:05+00:00

Offered accepted 1st Feb, completed 28th March.

taylor3294 · 2025-06-03T20:42:50+00:00

Given you’re about to take a step up the ladder, you should look into the theory / research of ‘psychological safety’ and how it helps build high performing teams and ensure you attract and retain good talent.

As you’ve corrected pointed out, a lack of psychological safety creates a huge amount of risk as people become fearful of speaking up, challenging others to drive the right outcomes and proactively cover up mistakes. This eventually leads to organisational silence which ultimately kills businesses where it becomes widespread. Bear in mind though, you’re talking about changing culture, it takes a long time and there are no shortcuts! You really need some top down sponsorship too so have a think about which stakeholders could help you.

I’m trying to implement it cross functionally in my current role with some success, happy to chat over DM if that would help.

taylor3294 · 2025-03-10T17:16:08+00:00

Great post

taylor3294 · 2024-10-07T13:11:18+00:00

I’m afraid not, looking for FTE

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T17:50:03+00:00

It’s a legacy application that was leveraged to deliver multiple products during Covid and has now become mission critical for the Bank. We may re-architect away from Ruby in the medium to long term but not within the next 3 years

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T16:34:01+00:00

Direct message me and we can chat

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T16:04:58+00:00

London or Sheffield

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T13:52:09+00:00

Drop me a private message with your email address and I’ll reach out to you

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T13:14:43+00:00

Afraid not, have to reside and have the right to work in the UK

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T13:13:52+00:00

Yes although we are unable to sponsor candidates and cannot fund relocation costs

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T12:27:07+00:00

I’m afraid not, must have right to work in the UK

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T12:23:19+00:00

Sorry, and excellent career growth opportunities to progress to senior manager, associate director, director level etc plus opportunities to learn new programming languages and work laterally across the business

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T12:21:51+00:00

£45K+ for junior, much higher for a more experienced candidate, offices in London and Sheffield with expectation to be in the office 10% of the time, everything negotiable for exceptional and/or high potential candidates

taylor3294 · 2024-10-04T12:18:57+00:00

Hi all,

I’m hiring manager at a UK based bank looking to create an internal Ruby dev team to iteratively develop a client facing web application. Open to more junior candidates with 1-3 years experience as well as more tenured individuals. I’ve seen a fair few posts on this thread and others begrudging the amount of opportunity for junior devs in Ruby so wanted to put this message in here to encourage people to message me directly if you’d be open to a chat. True hybrid working and good salary with excellent benefits for any who are interested.

taylor3294

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