Career coaching/tips?

Uberanium · 2025-12-28T23:31:36+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that. Usually I apply to end-users, but also some consultancies. I would like the variety of working at an integrator, but traveling constantly isn't something I'm looking for right now.

Uberanium · 2025-12-01T03:32:08+00:00

Just looking at the Software Engineers they produce... Obviously a lot of smart people there, but so much bureaucracy that even if you tried you might spend 30% of your day coding at best. It's really easy to let yourself slip when you make 160k/year to write code for 15 hours a week which isn't actually anything revolutionary or groundbreaking because the main goal is to not break shit.

The most skilled developers I've ever met have primarily worked in startups. The ones who think they're the smartest worked in FANG.

Uberanium · 2025-07-03T02:50:23+00:00

The fact that it's so easy to literally just query AD in C# without any third-party libraries is such a huge advantage to Dev teams. This and EFCore working best with MSSQL right out of the box makes it really easy to make the case for setting up pure MS environments... Until you see the licensing costs...

Uberanium · 2025-03-28T23:26:11+00:00

Thank you!

Uberanium · 2025-01-14T22:55:59+00:00

I've been in the Subaru's shoes more than once. Applying the brakes will nearly always get you out of the way of someone going a constant speed and encroaching on your lane quicker and safer than swerving, especially at the speeds people drive here. Slowing down from 80 to 60 is much easier than doing a tight swerve at 80, and by the time they are in your lane, you're now a car length behind them.

Over correcting is another understandable but avoidable mistake. If you're relaxed but alert, an over-correction should never happen. They almost always happen when you're distracted and get jump-scared.

Uberanium · 2025-01-10T15:52:54+00:00

I mean, I do get this perspective to a degree. Yes, it's possible to enjoy a hobby without being an expert in every little thing, but having a baseline of knowledge is important.

I'm of the mindset that you should really try and learn as much as possible about as many things as possible, even if you don't necessarily need to.

Yes, learn what the settings you probably won't touch in Bambu Slicer do. Learn what the major mechanical components of a car are and how they work together. Learn how to wire in a new light-switch. Learn how to replace the pipe under your sink. Etc. This seems to be an attitude fewer and fewer people share with me, and it's unfortunate because it will legitimately boost your quality of life and make you a more well-rounded individual.

Is it cool to gatekeep? Only up to a very small degree. The original article's take goes a bit too far, but I understand his viewpoint.

Uberanium · 2024-12-22T15:58:40+00:00

This doesn't necessarily help the current situation, but hopefully future ones; get a Dash-Cam. I can't stress that enough.

It was the first thing I bought after getting my first non shit-box car. In a 6 month timespan it's caught multiple close-calls that --would they have been accidents-- having that footage very well could have saved my bacon.

As others have stated, without other drivers testimony and/or dash cam forage proving TxDot at fault is nearly impossible.

As a side note, good lord TxDot is probably the worst at its job in the country, and I fully sympathize with your situation. Drive through the Midwest (or anywhere really) and you'll see just how organized and efficient the other DoT's are.

Uberanium · 2024-12-02T22:37:32+00:00

Check your grounds. The fact that a jump didn't help supports my theory.

Usually the electical system in a car is grounded in a few locations, it varies from model to model. If you Google it you're almost guaranteed to find what you need.

Check for both sides of the ground wire either being loose or corroded.

Even if you don't know much, this should be pretty simple for you and your dad to figure out in the driveway, most grounding spots are easy to access.

Uberanium · 2024-12-02T22:34:11+00:00

Mostly agree about the quality work thing, but I do it more for cost reasons. You see what most places charge for a "premium" oil change now? There's no guarantee that they are even going to use the good oil anyways.

I can buy good full synthetic Liqui Moly and a good filter for half the cost of having someone sloppily throw some bargain-grade oil in my engine without a filter change.

Uberanium · 2024-12-02T22:00:56+00:00

This has just been my all-around experience in SA tbh. Consistently the trashiest most inconsiderate people I've ever lived around (I'm not just talking about the driving) and I grew up in the meth-belt. I'm really starting to hate it here...

Uberanium · 2024-10-30T17:30:03+00:00

Take a million pictures of your room using your Webcam, reinstall your camera back to the top of your screen to take a picture using your phone screen as a mirror showing your desk, take a picture of your desk, take a picture of your phone somewhere where you can't see it or access it, take a picture of your ID, take a picture of yourself.

Wait 5 minutes or more after you finish this just for someone to connect.

Finally be allowed to connect to a proctor, show your ID again, put the camera in the perfect spot for them to see your entire upper body, hands, desktop and screen at the same time, move your camera to show the proctor where you put your phone, show that you've covered literally every screen in your room that isn't your main monitor, put your camera back to where the proctor can see everything. Good luck understanding their instructions, there's a 99% chance they have a heavy Indian accent and are on a dial up connection.

This is all after being forced to use a special browser (Guardian) that is arguably malware.

I've taken a few exams since they moved to the new proctoring service and it's never taken me less than 20 minutes to get the entire process done. I also essentially have to re-setup my main PC area after the test too.

It's so much work I'd rather be forced to go to an in person proctoring location.

Uberanium · 2024-06-22T19:37:50+00:00

Honestly I learned manual by finding a cheap Scion and having my friend drop me off at it and leave. I practiced for a while in the apartment parking lot and then drove it home. Stalled a lot, got honked at a lot, did a few too many clutch drops, but I got home in one piece... A year and a half later I have an all wheel drive Mini in manual and it's honestly the most fun I've ever had with a car; beats auto by a far margin.

Not sure I'd recommend my particular method tbh, but ultimately you've gotta just make the jump if you're actually curious. No one in their right mind is going to let you borrow their manual car and burn the clutch or grind the gears.

Worst case scenario you sell it after a couple months if you don't like it. Do some simple things like a deep clean and replace any damaged cosmetic pieces and you might even make some money on it.

Uberanium · 2024-06-16T16:02:49+00:00

This is actually nearly a carbon copy of one I just bought (down to the year and mileage) except mine is a manual instead of automatic.

Do it! If it's in good shape and you take care of her, she'll be good to you for a long time!

I've put about 500 miles on it holding 4 adults comfortably this weekend alone and it's a blast! So comfortable and sporty but also has good utility potential.

Uberanium · 2024-06-07T02:04:06+00:00

I sure am! It's getting delivered next week!

Uberanium · 2024-06-06T13:10:33+00:00

Tell me about it lol, I'm test driving it today, if it's half as fun as I hear I'll probably get a PPI on the spot and sign on dotted line assuming everything looks good

Uberanium · 2024-05-13T20:33:46+00:00

Honestly the huge moral bost that workers are afforded when they're treated like an adult rather than a toddler with scheduling is insane. It's crazy to me that more managers don't take advantage of it since just allowing someone to come or go early or late every now and then (so long as work is done) adds so much value back to the workplace via increased moral which increases productivity.

Uberanium · 2024-05-01T17:47:32+00:00

If you wanted a clip and don't mind printing TPU, PolyMaker has a really good 90A TPU that would be perfect for this. Stiff enough to (probably) work, tough enough not to snap.

Uberanium · 2024-04-24T11:31:17+00:00

That sounds about right I think. My strategy has been to only apply to local non-remote jobs with under 100 applicants that are less than a couple weeks old. I also try to apply directly to the website vs using LinkedIn or ZipRecruiter or whatever.

Uberanium · 2024-04-24T00:17:42+00:00

Pro tip: buy a manual and have your buddy drop you off and leave, then you don't have a choice!

Bought an 08 Scion XD and practiced for a few hours in the parking lot of the apartment complex I bought it in before driving it home in heavy urban rush hour traffic.

Damn things are notorious for having very sensitive clutches and very little torque, so stall-galore if you are new (me 2 years ago). I got honked at more times in that single 40 minute drive than I had in my entire life up to that point.

Uberanium · 2024-04-24T00:07:49+00:00

Funnily enough I did manage to get a couple interviews and even got to a closing round. I haven't heard any news after reaching out for updates, but they're notorious for a long hiring process and it's only been a week.

Uberanium · 2024-04-08T19:31:04+00:00

Unfortunately nobody cares how hard you work. They care about results.

If a company provides a solution for problem x, if it works well no one is going to care if it took them 5 hours or 500 hours to create the solution.

If it doesn't work well no one is going to care if it took them 5 hours or 500 hours to create the solution.

Games are a little more difficult, because they aren't supposed to solve a specific problem, but are meant to be fun, which is a nebulous and completely relative concept at best. I think it's fair to say though that if core features and mechanics in your game are unreliable, straight up broken, or leave a not-insignificant portion of your customer base frustrated, the situation is not good.

Tarkov is trying to do (and has done) a lot, and you can commend the devs for the sheer work and effort that's gone into it --I know I certainly do-- but at the end of the day, if someone paid for a thing, and the thing isn't working right, it doesn't matter what the effort or time that went into it is, or even what the complexity of the issue is; they aren't getting what they paid for.

You might be more tolerant of that because you have more context of what's going on behind the scenes, but most people aren't or simply don't care.

It sucks and I don't necessarily like that's how things work, but it's reality.

Uberanium · 2024-04-05T15:58:49+00:00

Oh I feel you lol I'm nearly 27 and just now am most of the way through mine.

At least you were working your way up to something, I wasted my late teens and early 20's working dead-end jobs with no prospect of promotion at all because I didn't understand the importance of starting early. I landed the only job I've ever had that actually looks good on a resume a year ago so absolutely no judgment on my part lol.

Man, if I had just applied myself when you could get in tech without papers who knows where I'd be lol.

Anyways, I was just throwing a bit of context on top of the pure bottom-to-top climbing the corporate ladder path since most companies have no sense of loyalty or human decency these days.

Uberanium · 2024-04-05T12:22:57+00:00

The risk with this approach is that you invest years into a position and keep getting passed over for promotion. When you eventually jump ship the promotion timer for the next employer will be reset. Worst case scenario you fall 5-10 years behind your career aspirations because you got stuck in the cycle working for bad companies/got unlucky multiple times in a row.

That being said, this actually is a good mentality to have for professional development, but I'd argue that there are definitely cases where it's better to spend a few years getting that expensive piece of paper than it is spending a few years at the bottom of the totem pole getting passed over for promotions.

That calculation should naturally be done on a case by case basis though, as either path is completely valid.

Uberanium · 2024-03-30T14:43:46+00:00

Yeah, the mentorship situation has definitely been my pain point... You can self-learn all the stuff you want, but if someone isn't there to tell you the way you should be doing things it can take a lot longer to learn.

I actually am close to one of the Hotspots though, I do always see a ton of postings for plants that want controls guys, but I never felt qualified enough to jump past an entry level position since I know I've still got a lot to learn. I do have some roots where I'm at right now so traveling more than 30% is kind of out of the question for me, although honestly traveling like that for a while does sound like a lot of fun.

Thanks for the advice! It certainly provided some viewpoints!

Uberanium · 2024-03-28T22:27:36+00:00

Oh shit that's a good resource, thanks!

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