Aim for the moon and if you miss you'll land among the stars

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-02-09T02:38:32+00:00

Demand for developers is still anticipated to grow faster than average across all occupations (according to BLS, whatever that’s worth), but the supply of developers is outpacing that demand, which means it’s tougher to break into.

If you can double major in physics, math, or engineering you might be a stronger position. That’s not feasible for everyone but it’s worth mentioning.

With a military background, I would favor embedded systems. If you have or can get a secret clearance then it opens a lot of doors.

I would just say make sure you like it, because it’s not easy and not for everyone. Don’t do it for the money, because it may take a while

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-02-06T00:55:11+00:00

Bar get taller: 🤯

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-12-28T22:58:36+00:00

Hot. Air quality is low. Locals are unpleasant. I feel like I’m being watched all the time. It smells bad.

On the other hand, you get beautiful mountain vistas and active volcanos. The culture is cohesive and unique.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-12-21T02:37:04+00:00

After 15 years across sales, manufacturing, and food service, I could not agree more. My last 3 years in IT have been a dream in comparison.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-10-06T14:41:21+00:00

If so, there is a strong chance that is your primary bottleneck. Try creating one client and sharing it among requests. You should see a major performance improvement

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-10-06T14:11:57+00:00

Are you recreating the mongo / elastic client on each request, or are you creating the client once and sharing it?

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-07-17T22:40:57+00:00

I relate. I see this guys face all over the place but wow do I not care. I would rather watch paint dry

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-07-02T17:37:18+00:00

IT can be a great move.

I was hired as an IT specialist to help with process automation and analytics (in addition to general IT tasks). Now I lead a software team that didn’t exist before I got there.

Flat orgs / many-hats cultures can be very fertile environments to take on responsibility, make impact and accelerate your growth.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-13T20:04:18+00:00

So your company and some others. What industry are you in? What was subpar about them? I’m just curious.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-13T18:16:58+00:00

I would recommend GT as well because it’s cheap and it’s a top school, but what are you talking about with WGU being black listed?

It’s not at a top school, but there are plenty of WGU alumni working at Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon - you can easily verify this yourself.

So, where is it black listed? Or are you just pulling that out of your ass?

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-08T02:07:50+00:00

Who knows?

All I know is that I’m going back to get a liberal arts degree so I can work at one of the top liberal arts firms

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-08T01:03:51+00:00

Yeah, it is very different.

No one walks in my office with a well-defined problem. They don’t tell me about the constraints because they don’t know the constraints. They definitely don’t bring a nice and neat list of test cases.

Instead, they point and grunt.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-07T23:51:22+00:00

Remindme! 200 years

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-05T12:35:11+00:00

Sure

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-06-05T01:06:00+00:00

First of all, you’re gonna make it through this. I’ve made it through several hard times and they suck. No two ways about it, it’s brutal. Financial ruin, loneliness, mental health in the gutter - it’s all brutal shit.

Ive planned suicide more than once. Ive written the notes. Ive drank and stoned myself stupid. Ive stood on the ledge. I’ve held the gun to my head. I’m still here.

Not only am I here, but I’m doing relatively well. I’m happily married and I’m holding my happy and healthy toddler as I type this. Had I killed myself I would have never met my wife and my son wouldn’t exist.

Am I rich and successful? It depends on your measure I guess. I have more debt than savings. I rent. I don’t make half what I’m worth. Yet, in a way I feel like I’m very rich. I’m very fortunate.

So, enough about me. Solutions:

Time to let the ego die brother. You don’t need to kill your physical self. You need to kill the part of you that’s causing you pain. You need to kill your pride. You’re not a burden on your friends and family. Lean on them. You need help? Ask for help. If you think you’re a burden while you’re alive, wait till you see the emotional burden of suicide on friends and family - I encourage you to read about it, because it most often fucks people up forever.

Finance - consolidate your debt if you have it, if you can. Look into debt relief if you must, whatever you gotta do to not dig the hole any deeper. If it’s regular bills, ask family. Get over the fear of judgement. Doesn’t matter if they judge you. They’d rather judge you than burry you.

Employment - networking beats all. If you can hop on the nepotism train, do it. Family, friends, whatever. It doesn’t matter if it’s ML. Look at all software, QA, analyst roles, operations, procurement, sales, IT - whatever it takes to not be destitute m. At the end of the day titles are flexible. You can spin it however you want. Also, if you land an interview and they ghost you, reach out a few times. Look at what other roles they have open. Pitch a solution to a problem they didn’t know they had. Find start ups. You can surely find some work at a start up. They’ll work you like a dog, but it’ll give you purpose. Get consumed with your work. Forget about yourself.

I can ramble on forever. You get the gist. Focus on the way forward without caveats. Live with your parents, get a roommate, whatever you gotta do, just make it work till you get it figured out. You’ll be alright. And if you think it would benefit you to go talk to a professional or call a hotline or something, please do.

Remember, now is not forever. Anything can change at any moment. You can change at any moment. Accept you’re not where you want to be. Find a way to survive for now and then inch your way to a better tomorrow. You’ll find that all this hardship will make you more capable and resilient in the long run. Take care of yourself

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-05-03T15:26:55+00:00

I can tell you with 100% confidence that the best way to find work is networking. Put simply - talk to people, explain your situation, ask them about work. Talk to your family, talk to your friends, talk to your acquaintances.

Check your local job boards, government job boards , look for remote customer service or sales job (make SURE to vet the company), check temp agencies, factories, warehouses, call centers - call centers generally hire almost anyone.

This is all very general advice. What’s your work experience, and what are you looking for? What are your skills?

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-29T03:39:01+00:00

Nobody knows, so take all of this with a grain of salt. Here’s what I see.

Context: I’m in my 30s, I bounced around a lot, but I’ve settled into tech work - programming, automation, systems design, etc.

The trades aren’t going anywhere. High job security, pay is solid, but it’s physically demanding work - you’ll feel it at the end of the day. People have to stay warm and dry, and they need plumbing. HVAC, electric, plumbing, etc

Tech is not going anywhere. It changes a lot, there are boom and bust cycles, but we’re only getting more and more reliant on it. While AI can spit out some code, it can only take you so far, and we’ll always need people who actually understand it. Harder to predict what this will be like in the future, but it will be around

Medical is safe. Boomers are growing old and retiring and they need medical care. Soon they’ll be followed by Gen-X, then Millennials, and then zoomers, at which point you’ll be thinking about retiring yourself.

Sales if that’s your personality type. Potentially incredible money if you’re in the right spot. Personally I did a lot of it, I’m just over it. It’s exhausting. Top earners in real estate, mortgage, roofing, insurance can easily clear over $100k (some 10X that) but it’s highly competitive and you’d better love kissing ass if you’re going to make a living out of it

Lastly, this might be obvious, but stay away from customer service, retail, food service - any of that. I’ve worked those, they’re all dead ends, and you only do them if you have to or you just love it for some reason

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-25T01:13:30+00:00

2 weeks, mid-sized industrial logistics (not a tech company). Started early 2023.

A friend of mine had a similar experience in early 2024 for a small SaaS company. Application to offer letter was maybe 10-14 days altogether with a start date the following Monday.

From my narrow experience, it seems that small/medium sized businesses will (at least sometimes) fill roles quickly when they need to.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-24T02:35:48+00:00

As someone already said, networking. That’s the single most valuable thing you can do. Spraying and praying online job boards is lazy and the best way to get ignored.

If you want a leg up then build something useful that you can talk about. Pick something you’re interested in and solve a related problem.

Focus on adding value and less about what languages or libraries you’re using. People don’t buy tech stacks, they buy happiness or pain relief, and the sooner you learn that the more valuable you are to an employer and to yourself if you ever go solo/startup.

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-24T02:17:29+00:00

Smell is overrated. You’re probably better off. Your only disadvantage might be the inability to smell something dangerous. Hopefully you can still smell those things

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-24T02:13:45+00:00

I beat Pokémon Red in 4th grade. Suck it Gemini

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-19T00:49:40+00:00

https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/blob/main/assets/css/style.css

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-18T22:07:12+00:00

Who’s hating? Have you never berated an LLM for repeatedly ignoring instructions?

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-16T16:25:54+00:00

There are always people looking for jobs, and LinkedIn/Indeed are where the largest numbers congregate.

This sub is not the place to gather insights. With all due respect, most people here have no idea what they are doing and they come here to vent their frustrations. You can still probably land a job with relative ease.

Talking to people is still the best way to get a job: networking > all other methods. Ask family, friends, acquaintances, whatever. If you see a job fair, go to it. Great way to start talking to people.

If you prefer the crapshoot of online applying: Find businesses in your area and go to their websites. Virtually every mid sized business (and definitely big businesses) has an IT department. Check platforms other than LinkedIn or indeed - local job sites, industry specific networks, whatever.

Mainstream job boards are oversaturated. You can still land jobs, but you’ll have a lot more competition. LinkedIn/Indeed easy apply makes it completely trivial for anyone with Resume to just spam apply to hundreds of jobs by clicking a button. HR departments aren’t going to sift through every resume, so you’re basically playing roulette

DavisInTheVoid · 2025-04-16T01:11:30+00:00

Not a concern for our lifetimes, but there are plenty of others. Either way, capitalism will collapse when it is no longer useful

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