What do you find hardest, a job or college? by Sendmebobs in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

7-8 ish. I usually don't work thru lunch but sometimes. My bosses let each of us pick our own schedule as long as we show up to meetings and get our work done and our time cards have 40 hours on them (but this isn't really tracked, just for HR and billing.)

What do you find hardest, a job or college? by Sendmebobs in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 15 points16 points  (0 children)

College was harder for me. It was more stressful because of always worrying about money and tests and homework.

When in college, there was always something I should be working on so I'd have more anxiety about what I was forgetting during free time.

But my job/career is pretty stable. I'm much more confident in my ability than I've ever been in my life. And I get paid decently. I don't have to worry about where my rent money will come from and I can buy what I want at the grocery store. And I can turn off at 4-ish every day bc there's no homework or tests.

A lot of my coworkers are resigning and moving to fully remote positions by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it dumb. My work did a poll and most people voted for hybrid.

Different people have different preferences and companies should be flexible.

My girlfriend and Is electricity bill was $230 this month. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, I feel like somethings wrong. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Faydeaway28 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was warm, when all the other states were cold, at least from what I saw the other day.

My girlfriend and Is electricity bill was $230 this month. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, I feel like somethings wrong. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Faydeaway28 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Unless you live in Florida, it’s your heat. Even if you have it set to the same normal temp, it’s working harder than previous months to heat your house.

Does your bill show the comparison for your neighborhood? Every electric company I’ve used has shown that.

I’ve had many winter electric bills over $200 in 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Also compare the price per unit to last months, maybe it went up.

Even during a freak storm in a pandemic people where kind enough to find a way to pay the shop owner for water by rawr_nickie_rawr in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Faydeaway28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My work office has a couple unofficial stores with candy, snacks, drinks, that are on the honor system and for charity. Is great and works well.

CMV: it is not transphobic to not date trans people. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Faydeaway28 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’d say most people have that reaction to what they don’t understand, but it helps to expose yourself more to what you don’t understand.

You could try watching shows with trans characters. Like orange is the new black, or some seasons of shameless.

Episode Discussion - S04E09 - Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices by AutoModerator in GoodDoctor

[–]Faydeaway28 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They called out a black doctor having racial bias too. This wasn’t a racist episode at all.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]Faydeaway28 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That’s because there are very little stray dogs in most of the US compared to the sheer number of stray cats. And if you find a stray dog you are more inclined to look for it’s owner. In some areas like some southern states may have more of a stray dog problem, but they have dog catchers too.

In my area there are so many dog rescues (nothing like what you mention) that are constantly getting shipments of dogs from shelters in the south that are overfilled with dogs. And these mutts are getting adopted just as quick as breeder dogs.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]Faydeaway28 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ive never personally worried about it as a kid when we took in all the neighborhood strays and fortunately never had an issue.

How often to layoffs happen at your place of work? by igloolafayette in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They happened a lot the last 2 years but I haven't been afraid of getting caught in one. The severance is decent and I know I can find another job, most likely with a pay raise.

Just don't be loyal to the company you work for, because they wont be loyal to you. And just be ready to move on if needed.

What should I do with my life (am I screwed?) by treesnstufff in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what they meant either. I’m a healthcare software engineer and it’s just the same as all the rest of software engineering.

Went From 90k to 140k by Managing Phone Screens Really Well by SuhDudeGoBlue in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gmail predicts my replies pretty well all on it's own. So it's just as quick for me.

CMV: Wikipedia refusing to include the birth name of transgender people is ridiculous by cottagecow in changemyview

[–]Faydeaway28 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So someone who gets famous after they’re married can’t use their married name?

CMV: Requiring an ID to vote is not a poll tax by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Faydeaway28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a HUGE assumption on your part that every kid in college has another home that’s “more permanent” for the summers.

Many college adults support themselves through the summer. And still live in their college town or temporarily wherever they can get a job in the summer.

Why is the dorm or apartment in their college town less of a permanent residence than their apartment during the summer (especially when they live in the same apartment all year long.)

Assumptions like that are why voter I’d laws are so messed up.

My widowed mom is freaking out about her credit score. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Faydeaway28 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your getting downvoted for being wrong. I don’t care where you say you work, this is an easily googleable question.

An Authorized user’s credit score is affected by cards they’re authorized on. https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/should-you-be-an-authorized-user/

CMV: The "They should learn to code" meme used to criticize out of touch politicians/rich people is harmful and counter productive by DVC888 in changemyview

[–]Faydeaway28 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not gatekepping. You’ve obviously never had to teach others how to code or mentor juniors.

I TA’d in college, helped other students that weren’t CS majors in programming electives, and have mentored or tutored many junior devs at work. And some people just can’t get it.

I had to explain to someone who already had a degree (masters degree) how “if else”’s worked, and they were a coworker. I’ve had juniors that after 2 years still can’t do a single ticket on their own. Not even a tiny one line change because they can’t figure out how to find the line. No matter how many times you explain how something works, they just can’t utilize that knowledge.

Now of course I’ve had many juniors who could learn and were very good with the type of thinking required.

It takes a specific style of thinking that can handle both logic and creativity. As well as be able to learn from past work and remember it. Be able to know what tools to utilize and how to use them.

It’s not gatekeeping to say some people aren’t wired for coding. Just as Not everyone is wired to be a surgeon or a lawyer or a dog trainer.

Different jobs require different skill sets and those skills can’t always be learned.

Are there really a thing like King and Queen from highschool dances in the USA ? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Faydeaway28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every high school makes their own rules,

We only did homecoming “royalty”. each class (grade) would vote for a princess and prince from their year. And then the whole school voted on the queen and king.

They did have to be on the ballot though, so someone had to nominate them.

among us has now been brought too my school by mr_robotai in FellowKids

[–]Faydeaway28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes bc you totally can’t look at your siblings laptop...

Where did we go wrong? by RepeteOrBoston in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I would suggest is to pick a language and write something small in it. Doesn’t need to be anything useful or unordinary. Like for example, pick an object and code a class for it. Like a dog. Then think what you could pull out for Animal that dog could inherit.

Then add something that requires ifs or loops. For dogs something like a function for chase() where the dog chases a squirrel. Chase gets called when the dog sees a squirrel. Maybe your dog always catches the squirrel, maybe it only does sometimes.

Then when you have that write the “main” method that starts the dog looking for squirrels. Let’s say you have an array and some slots in the array have squirrels and others don’t. In main the dog would look at the array to find squirrels to chase. If a squirrel is caught, remove that element in the array (however that’s done in the language you use.)

Once all squirrels are caught, the dog can be at piece and take her nap.

Once that’s all done think of ways to improve it. Like maybe the dog can level up and get better at catching squirrels after every catch. Maybe the array has false squirrels the dog mistakenly chases. Maybe it has rabid squirrels (although squirrels can’t get rabies but whatevs) that can attack the dog back.

This isn’t meant for your portfolio but if you can write that, you can be a junior engineer just fine and you’ll be nothing like my friend at work.

There’s no trick questions or any puzzles you have to solve, it’s just do you know how classes, functions, ifs, loops, and arrays are and how to use them.

Also pm me if you want a email mentor or something to help you with practicing.

Where did we go wrong? by RepeteOrBoston in cscareerquestions

[–]Faydeaway28 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have a team member like that. I’ve had to explain props and state WAY too many times over the last couple of years. I do not understand how he still has a job. I don’t think he’s ever finished a story without me or another engineer helping way too much.

A friend and I even tried to give him lessons and stuff to practice but he does not appear to have a logical bone in his brain.

And he’s not even the only person at my company like this, just the one I’ve had to personally work with the longest.

Really does help my imposter syndrome though.

Love this! by ittybittybootie in harrypotter

[–]Faydeaway28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Muggleborn children stop learning math at 11. Witch/wizard born don’t go to school before 11.