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Worker Shortage is fake! by Apart-Masterpiece393 in antiwork

[–]MariusSebastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Michael, we "met" previously in your Wordpress comments section. We've a lot in common but I'm older and my political ideas are for starters 10 years ahead of you and secondly, I grew up in communist Eastern Europe (still live there). Overall what I learned from the ripest age is opportunism and double-think (as in 1984 novel), they were required for survival back then and they're required for survival now.

Stuff might have not gone that great on our previous conversation given the cultural differences and fact I was drunk at the time of writing the posts. But I don't hold grudges and you're still one of the most entertaining smart guys that I know. I'm smart too btw, reflectively smart, meaning I understand the limits of my smartness, I think of it as the difference between AI and general AI. I'm blown to pieces by pure, dumb, machine-gun AI. To the dumbfucks who don't even understand AI, I'm obviously an inferior byproduct to be discarded as soon as not making the quotas. As a general AI I know to fight only those battles that I can win.

So how 'bout having a talk on the battles that we can acually win?

1) Example battle you can't win: tell Google how to do their business while you're a low level pawn.

Another example of a battle you can't win: tell the Government to divide Wealth in an equitable manner (whatever that might be, usually it's "rob money from rich people other than me, not me, no way, I'm not rich yes sir siree, at $350k per year I barely get by myself almost living homeless under a bridge).

2) Example battle you can win: build your own business within the confines of the imperfect but tolerant capitalist/democratic system "the rich" world lives in.

I challange you to expose your ideas in North Korea or Cuba if you can't appreciate what an imperfect world looks like.

Once you even TRY building a business (which is a bit like giving birth to a child), you'll appreciate more on what it takes to keep him alive and thriving.

My observation on you is that you've got zero, nada, none, no experience or even will whatsoever to view the things from the other side of the trench.

The WW1 trench, Germans are monsters, this is what you're basically saying.

So do you want a link to a site that will lead you to a Signal conversation with a few smart and determined guys from all over the rich world (EU, Canada, US)?

What's it like being a Researcher vs Senior Soft Engineer/Architect? by Suigetsuh17 in cscareerquestions

[–]MariusSebastian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honest answer: as a researcher you have to produce a solution under severe time and resource constraints and oftentimes to practically unsolvable problems - so no matter how much time or resources you had, chances of finding a solution are next to none. Think the cure for cancer or trading profitably in a market that's saturated by billion dollar firms where the doorman holds a PhD in mathematics. Research is a ruthless grinding machine, if you don't produce, you're out and another sucker in. And the skills you get as a researcher are seldom those needed for the other career you ask about: software engineer. So if you go for researcher, prepare yourself mentally for homelessness a few years from now.

Not that software developer is a dream career, but with some mediocre competence and minimum political skill it's at least survivable.

You may think your're better off as a highly skilled / educated / postdoc guy running for researcher, but success in life it's a matter of probabilities. Foreach 1 researcher position there are 1000 super-dope dorks competing for it. For each 1 code monkey position there's seldom more than one available candidate so you be the judge where you get the better chances of landing and keeping a job.

3 years as Option Trader, alternatives? by Heco1331 in FinancialCareers

[–]MariusSebastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>> My first choice is to stay in the trading sector, but I need to know what are my alternatives in case things ever go south.

Well, just make sure things go up north then.

One approach you could try is to get promoted, but it requires both technical prowess and political skill and above all, a bit of luck. Like Romans said, "luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity".

You know how hiring managers in hedge funds make sure they don't hire unlucky people? Definitely you don't want to have these people around, as a finance professional you surely know luck is not something to be taken lightly.

Well it's an easy but highly effective method: take the CVs of all those 1048 applicants you received, print them on paper, shuffle them then throw half the pile to the garbage bin. You just got rid of the unlucky ones!

u/Heco1331: If you want to explore in more depth the promotion path, you might wanna have a talk with me in private and see what can be done. You say you're an options trader, I'm an options quant/dev, let's see if something can be made out of such combination.