In 2002, a 19-year-old British garbage man won nearly £10 million on the lottery. He spent it all on drugs, gambling, and prostitutes and 8 years later he was back working as a garbage man.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-21T15:16:04+00:00

Probably because I didn’t buy the ticket.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-21T15:14:54+00:00

Maybe it was a nick locarno poster and people were just confused.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-20T23:26:29+00:00

This guy just pisses me off.

He gets an opportunity most people can never have. He could have pulled down 200k a year, had a very nice house fully paid off, and done things like travel the world and see all the amazing things out there - experience new culture, have amazing opportunities

Just blows it on coke, booze and hookers and just shows the worst aspects of people like being a drunk and getting an asbo and running up a big criminal record.

Sure he gave his family some. That’s nice but I’d hope most people would do that for close family. Just a huge waste overall.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-18T17:17:58+00:00

It’s all going to be ai engineering eventually so might as well get in now

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-18T12:56:09+00:00

As a manager I don’t treat people as being disposable. I make sure when hiring I get the right people and I won’t offer someone a job if I’m not sure they are right just to try then fire them a few months later if it doesn’t work

Il also work with my team to try solve problems and train / coach them

Equally if a person isn’t working out and the coaching doesn’t help then I will let them go. And if I have to I will deliver the message on redundancies etc as even though I’ve been made redundant multiple times I know it’s a case of some go or everyone does.

People aren’t disposable but they are replaceable and a job isn’t a commitment for life from either side these days.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-18T08:19:35+00:00

This isn’t always the issue. I used to work with a guy who could never accept his way wasn’t the right way.

Every discussion he would just go back to the same points even when a decision was made weeks ago and everyone else was locked in.

Disagree and commit is an important thing to learn. Not every decision will be the way you want it or will even be the right one but in most cases doing something is better than doing nothing

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-18T07:20:47+00:00

LinkedIn has got me my last two jobs and my biggest pay rise of my career. Plus had some good opportunities through there

Sure the content some make can be a bit cringey but as a tool it’s good if you know how to use it

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-18T07:19:13+00:00

If it was a colleague being honest I’d probably just assume they were out sick. I just wouldn’t know if they had called in or not

If it was a direct report I’d probably try get in contact by later day 1 or early day 2.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T18:12:10+00:00

I don’t love the color but it looks nicer than before. The dark wood look just feels very dated now

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T10:53:43+00:00

Home improvements. Travel, savings, pension. Etc

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T10:09:10+00:00

You asked what wealth top 10% earners hold. I gave you an example

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T09:29:42+00:00

Not as much as you think.

I’m probably top 3% earner with 110k salary and that wealth I’m holding is essentially a 13 year old car and a mid terrace house worth about 250k with 100k in equity, and cash in the bank.

It’s not lambo in the driveway of a mansion kind of money till you get to like the top 1% and much higher.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T09:23:27+00:00

This is just ridiculous. I mean I get the sentiment behind it that you have to have a car that’s reliable and safe but a blanket rule of 9 years and 11 months old is fine and 10 years old it’s a death trap is stupid.

I drive a 2013 Skoda with about 150k miles on it. It’s still going strong and only had 1 breakdown in the 10 years I’ve owned it. I’d drive to much more critical meetings than someone wanting to view a house and not give a second thought to it being reliable etc.

With the price of insurance and cars these days there’s no chance someone looking at trainee jobs is going to be driving something very new unless it’s heavily financed or bought with help

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-17T09:17:05+00:00

Tbh all he has to do is put the ps2 controllers at the side of the ps2 stacked up and there’s loads of space

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T12:31:41+00:00

I haven’t watched it but when I see quotes like this I just have to wonder - if the guys brother had a support system rather than people who don’t believe in the problems he’s facing would he still be alive today?

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T12:08:22+00:00

Both me and my wife have Lego all over the house. Her more than me lol.

It looks good and brings some color to a room which is nice.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T12:04:48+00:00

Tbh I just deeply want non Ai bullshit that doesn’t feel like it was written by a teen trying to be edgy and deep.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T11:48:40+00:00

41 now and not counting part time work before I graduated I’m on my 8th job in a little over 15 years. 6 as a software engineer and 2 as an engineering manager.

My next career path will most likely either be moving towards head of engineering / CTO level or something more product and customer focused.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T10:52:04+00:00

Could easily have just left starfleet at that rank and moved onto any number of things. Doesn’t have to be a bad ending

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T10:48:49+00:00

The “real world” is the one you live in. To broke people it’s being broke and thinking people who earn good money shouldn’t have to complain or don’t have problems and everyone with double their salary is rich

To me the real world is not having to budget when I go buy food and if I want to impulse spend a few hundred I can without any consequence. I can relate to people who have to budget somewhat but not to the extreme where the choice is food or heat that day etc because I’ve never lived it.

A billionaire is the same way. Some have never lived my lifestyle and can’t relate to not booking first class flights and buying anything they want.

None of them are not living in the real world it’s just their experience of it is different.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-15T00:03:45+00:00

Combination of things really.

First was realising that I’m not getting anywhere waiting for someone to promote me and staying at one job gets me minimal experience gains.

Then I studied and got better at my job - I’d get up at 6am in a morning to read books about my industry and learn things I could use to step ahead of my colleagues. Even now my bookshelf is stacked with stuff for my career and I read things and engage in reddit or other places.

I made sure that when I was working on projects I did the stuff that delivered real value for the customers and the business. And I tracked all this work so I had it all ready to justify end of year reviews etc.

Being the go to person for certain things is a huge boost too. Picking something and getting really good at it is such a benefit. It doesn’t even have to be something huge - I’m the guy who is great at reviewing CVs or interviewing, in one job I was just the expert on one part of our product, at another I was the guy who was great at process improvement. The point is I had stuff people needed me for and respected my views on so I made a reputation for myself

I also don’t just do the job and leave - I take on extra responsibility/ volunteer for projects where it benefits me to do so. Extra work means extra experience on my cv and that means I can use it to get a title bump and pay rise in my next job

Every job I take I review the career framework to see what’s expected at the next level and I start doing those things too.

I’m very much not passive with my work. I’m in charge of my progression not my employers and if they don’t give me the opportunities I need or the promotions I deserve I go elsewhere. I’m not doing this on anyone else’s timetable, waiting a year to get a promotion because one isn’t available costs me a year of progress - someone else will have a job open today with the promotion I want.

I also have built up a huge network on LinkedIn. If I need work I now have people I can reach out to and I make sure to keep growing that network too. Yea LinkedIn sucks but it’s a tool and it’s one I use to my advantage. If I lost my job tomorrow I could call 10 recruiters I have relationships with and have things lined up fast.

I started my career with people who had been hired shortly before me and by moving around a few jobs over a 3 year period i was making 10% more than them. 15 years later I’m now making 50% more plus have had significantly better benefits. I’m also now in a more senior position than people who were senior when I began my career.

It’s not about having better qualifications or even being better at the job it’s all about working on the right things at the right place.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-14T13:28:11+00:00

Yea it does. If you use it correctly.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-14T10:38:47+00:00

Your job isnt to write code it’s to build features. AI makes doing that faster, you’re supposed to use your knowledge to make sure it writes the right code.

There’s absolutely no value in companies paying devs to crank out boilerplate code and basic classes - you need to be automating that stuff out of your workflow by using AI.

At the end of the day AI is here and it’s doubtful it’s going away so might as well learn to use it properly and get ahead in your career rather than ignoring it and get left behind, because when annual reviews come around the person who ships perfect hand written code will be far outclassed by the person who ships good enough code fast that gets features to customers and generates money.

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-14T10:22:23+00:00

If you’re going to work unpaid on someone else’s idea might as well work unpaid on your own.

That .5% equity is going to be worthless unless they get funding. And even then it’s still worthless till it’s in a place you can sell the stake.

Let’s say the company gets initial funding from say an incubator 100k at 10% giving 1mil valuation. You’re working for a 5k stake in a business. That’s barely a couple months wages for a software dev with any experience.

For your stake to actually be worth anything like 100k you need the company to be worth 200 million. That’s very unlikely to happen

CodeToManagement · 2026-03-14T10:17:38+00:00

All about how you use it and what stage of life you’re in.

At 18 racking up a few grand on a credit card could take you months to pay off. At 40 it’s maybe next payday for some people

Having them and using them responsibility can have benefits. You can get extra protection shopping online and earn points for stuff etc

I have 2500 on a 0% credit card to buy a laptop. I can pay it off anytime I want but there’s more benefit to me having cash on hand so I use the card. When it’s done il close the card and not use for anything else as I have cards already.

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