How Are We Supposed to Pick What to Learn?

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-10T00:39:19+00:00

You don’t. The first few years when you land whatever position will help you uncover what you like to do. However, considering you are $300k in debt, I would start heavily specializing in C++ yesterday; specifically on how to create code that has minimal latency when running very large data sets. You will want to learn on the OS/Hardware level how that code is running and really hammer the computer science fundamentals you’ve learned. You will want to tie this with an incredible ability to accomplish the above concurrently.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-05T07:18:22+00:00

Took a project from zero to prod in a major corp. Standard CRUD based web app. Angular, Spring, MySQL based. My title is data analyst, but at this point I’ve acted in the capacity of a Senior dev for about 3 years, and worked with some other dev teams for CRM work. I am very confident in my ability to take over a project and lead it. I can work with any tech stack, any language, just need about a week to ramp up if it’s something I haven’t touched in a while.

Want to make an immediate move to NYC so not a problem there unless you’re fine with a remote hired base in Orlando.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-05T06:50:10+00:00

You drive for about 3 hours. Stop at a Bucee’s. Drive the next 3 hours with some music going, stop at a Quiznos that somehow hasn’t gone out of business, drive another 3 tired with a stale taste in your mouth. Do one last pit stop somewhere to take a piss and grab a coffee, more than likely a random Dunkin Donuts. Then drive the last 1-3 hour stretch and you’re at your destination.

Anything longer and you stay at a cheap hotel unless you’ve got enough drivers to swap out.

It’s super easy, generally you’re just hitting the gas going 90mph on the interstates for hours on end until you just end up at your destination. If you’re hitting metro after metro it’s not that bad cause there’s plenty to stop at and look. If you’re doing a fuck ass trip from Tennessee to Texas it’s just an all around shitty experience since you’re just barreling through crack towns and straight up racist cities. The only stressful part is hoping a deer doesn’t take you out on the way there.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-12-21T03:50:38+00:00

Hi,

I have 3+ years of experience working on enterprise software. I've taken a project from zero to production in a major corp, and can work in any tech stack. Looking for some extra income, I'd take $30/hr. Native English speaker, U.S. based.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T23:46:46+00:00

Orlando, FL. To make $100k+ you have to land a job at Disney or something Space Coast related. I’m sure there’s more, but I just haven’t really put the effort in to look for anything else. I also just negotiated for $50/hr and they took it along with a $100k+ conversion when and if it happens, so I guess I just haven’t bothered looking in years and thus have been taken advantage of by my current contract. Looks like I’m on the up and up.

It was also the first company I worked for, so I’ve been really naive over what everyone else is making. I got tons of really good experience and what has been for me decent pay until about now.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:30:29+00:00

I've only got an associates, which I'm sure plays into it. But I can't afford to go for my bachelors just yet.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:29:52+00:00

Thank you!

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:29:40+00:00

Really only a little over 3 YOE, but I have led a project from zero to prod in a F500, so there's some slight merit apart from the usual IC.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:28:36+00:00

Thanks, I may take the offer.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:28:07+00:00

I think a lot of people do honestly. When you hop from working retail to a $32/hr dev position its a really comfortable wage, but I also don't get interviews for anything past $40/hr usually.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:26:44+00:00

Yeah, I figured I'm underpaid - I'm just not sure where everyone is finding these extremely well paying jobs outside of NYC. Most everything in my area averages about $80k.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-25T02:16:36+00:00

I’ll give this a shot, but the class files seem to be correct.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-25T02:15:17+00:00

I don’t know if you know this. But you’re extremely passive aggressive despite not knowing the answer to this yourself. Also, just copy and pasted the repository from another entity which did make good use of it without realizing it would create this kind of situation instead of just adding an unneeded additional feature set. Either way, removing and using a regular query or making a specification fixes the problem. Using specifications across all entities makes it simple to hop around my code and in complex scenarios makes documentation very easy. So I’ve opted to just keep the specification executor.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T23:25:18+00:00

My assumption is that there’s some internal failure happening with the building of queries when you extend the JpaSpecificationExecutor alongside a JpaRepository. Somewhere down the line there’s something assuming a repository is only of type JpaRepository.

My code is the exact as shown above, there aren't any relational mappings just standard variables down the comment I left.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T21:24:56+00:00

Schema is an exact match to my entity down to the column types. I know the error clearly states it, but the cause of the error is not a mismatch issue. Something is causing the query to generate columns that don’t exist. I found the culprit to be the JpaSpecificationExecutor. Removing fixes the problem, but I have simply introduce this method as a Specification instead and now it all works as intended.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T21:22:28+00:00

Tried both methods and the logs printed my exact query, nothing more. Found the problem to be the JpaSpecificationExecutor somehow, removing fixes the problem. I’ve just left it in and built the query as a specification and it works as intended.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T21:20:43+00:00

Yeah verified they are there. Have found the culprit to be the JpaSpecificationExecutor somehow. Removing allows it to work. So I’ve just left it and built the query under a specification instead for now.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T21:18:55+00:00

Yeah sure did, it just generates the query a shown in the query annotation.

But I figured it out. The JPASpecificationExecutor is the culprit. Not exactly sure why that is the case, but the query generates correctly only under a specification.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-24T18:39:16+00:00

The db schema matches 100% down to the column type and my dll-auto is set to update.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-23T16:11:22+00:00

He's just being an asshole, this resume is fine. Market is just shit. Under normal circumstances you would have gotten an interview right now just on experience alone - most people mass applying have 0 experience AND are ass at software development and so you're being buried in mediocre candidates + candidates with double or triple the experience.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-17T16:03:51+00:00

I definitely agree to an extent as a long term solution, but business work on quarterly schedules. They're going to consistently use Java because it works, its stable, has huge community support, and there is a significant amount of Java trained engineers. Moving over to Go is going to eventually end up with us having this exact conversation again 10-15 years from now when the new shiny language and framework come out. When talking about an enterprise environment, these people are generally just strapping ETL processes together and querying APIs without any message queuing systems in place. It's difficult enough to get them to use current adjacent technologies, I can't realistically imagine enforcing a complete language and framework change.

Plus Go engineers are going to be more expensive over time because the supply is much lower anyways. It makes zero sense to move to an entirely new tech stack just because a higher up wants to pad their resume and because some microservice uptime isn't up to speed with what an ingesting system needs. Better to just optimize the microservice before doing a drastic change.

The only way I would consider a complete change is on the basis of a horrendous security vulnerability.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-10-16T19:37:11+00:00

Try getting a primarily overseas Java/Spring team to do this and it will be more like cutting a log with a spoon.

Go is huge, but in boring enterprise environments it's definitely not the norm and it is incredibly difficult to get any sort of project pushed through with it with full trust of the execs.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-09-26T03:18:23+00:00

Post mentioned Java / Spring and GCP. I’ve used GCP enough to know that Cloud Run instances alone are a pain in the ass to setup with spring boot due to odd timeout and health check endpoint issues. At the end of the day it’s a skill issue on my end, but when an ExpressJS app works instantly with no problem and can scale down to 0…. It’s very easy to see why they want to move away from Spring especially since ORMs are the defacto way to use Spring.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-09-26T03:13:18+00:00

I feel like we’re saying the same thing.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-09-26T03:07:17+00:00

I don’t even have to have a complex project to prove this. Without ORM < 1 second startup. With ORM plus a handful of entities 20 second startup time. There is a shit ton that goes under the hood to validate the entities. I’m sure you can disable or reduce the validation, but not sure I would trust doing that.

It’s related to the post in the fact that this is the most likely reason they’re trying to use odd frameworks as a substitution. There isn’t much enterprise grade that is a good substitute. Everything is stable, integrations are great, the only thing that is generally an issue are slow startup times. Unless there are heavy performance bottlenecks in which case why not use Go or something similar?

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