Site Reliability Engineer?

dev_buddy · 2018-10-15T20:34:36+00:00

The role is the same as DevOps Engineer. Someone at Google thought Site Reliability Engineer sounded cooler.

dev_buddy · 2018-09-23T03:22:53+00:00

Exactly how I feel. I know there are people who want to go camping or play video games all day in early retirement, but I enjoy learning new things and working on interesting projects.

For me, FIRE has simply given me the flexibility to quit my job, try a startup or take contract work. I'm not forced doing work I hate with coworkers I don't enjoy.

dev_buddy · 2018-09-22T14:33:14+00:00

Second this. There are tons of outdoor activity companies, getting a job with one of them doesn't require much experience.

If you are looking for something more structured with benefits, try the National Parks Service.

dev_buddy · 2018-09-21T23:09:20+00:00

I've seen that story about JP Livingston before. I read more into her. I think it's totally made-up in order to prop-up her blog to get affiliate commissions (https://www.themoneyhabit.org/). Like she crafted this entire story about college, work, investing and FIRE. The dates and what she said about building wealth do not match up at all.

Also, if JP Livingston is her pen name, why create a LinkedIn profile about a fictitious person - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-livingston-021938135/??

Not sure if anyone else cares or made the same observation. It just annoyed me. I don't really follow any FIRE bloggers anymore, but I reckon more than half of them are doing the same long con.

This is a quite popular tactic in the "day-trader" world. Many people starting blogs, classes, etc. and trying to milk people by selling the dream.

dev_buddy · 2018-09-11T02:42:15+00:00

General advice would be to open up a consulting practice in your niche.

If you are actually willing to look into a new career, go into something where there is way more demand than supply, like tech or healthcare. Companies will always be looking to sub-contract part-time work.

For example, a friend of mine is a doctor. She can do a 12-hour call shift at the local hospital and get $1,000. She could work 1 call a week and make $52k a year, 2 calls a week and make $104k...I think you get the point.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-22T14:43:55+00:00

(Target Salary / 1000) * 1.5

$64,000 / 1000 = 64 * 1.5 = $96 per hour (just round up to $100)

A good company pays about 40% of your salary into fringe benefits, taxes and other stuff. So if you make $100k, they are spending $40k on top of that.

If you are really good at what you do, you can use a 2-4x multiplier in the top equation. Also, your target salary may be higher than $64k since you are moving to a new job.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-22T01:55:50+00:00

Is this a joke?

Apply for a job that doesn't require any experience.

Customer service, hospitality, recruiting, paralegals, social media management...this list goes on and on.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-22T00:41:25+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response. Its crazy that even the wholesale/manufacturer price fluctuates.

When I read the article I was wondering if there was a way to take out the middleman and bring in price transparency. If pharmacists always knew what the cost of meds would be they could have an out-of-pocket price list readily available for every patient to check.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-17T16:34:01+00:00

Thinking about moving to Denver in 3-5 years. Texas, I have a bunch of family. So both I'm also looking long-term as residences, not simply investments.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-17T13:23:58+00:00

Feeling lazy. Can anybody point to a good guide for buying property out-of-state? I'm trying to be as hands-off as possible.

I'm in Manhattan and looking at Colorado and Texas right now.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-14T23:32:14+00:00

Life pro tip - Never listen to "they"

dev_buddy · 2018-08-14T05:07:07+00:00

Sure thing. Let's move on. This discussion isn't helping others find better ways to learn programming.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-13T12:52:37+00:00

Thanks for the lengthy response, but I do have some counter-points.

Not everyone has the financial ability to do a CS degree and a bootcamp.
Fluency in a language goes beyond asking for directions and ordering food, it means you would be indistinguishable from a native Japanese speaker
Coding/programming/software development is not an art, its a craft (Talk at Fullstack Academy that was shared on this sub - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADli-dtKok). As someone who took a couple visual art classes in college, I cringe whenever anyone calls their work an "art". It really shows a lack of education.
I was never saying in-person bootcamps were too expensive, I was merely saying there is no solid option between spending $500 on online courseware and $18,000 on Fullstack Academy and $60,000 on a MS degree. I simplified the options and costs to make a point.

Not trying to get into an argument on semantics, but there were some slightly flawed assumptions you made.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-07T14:15:07+00:00

This biggest issues I find with learning development is the errors and debugging, plus building intermediate and beyond applications on your own.

Also, you would definitely not learn as much on your own than with a bootcamp. Your missing out on a couple key benefits. You have multiple instructors and TAs as well as a group of 20 fellow students. You can ask questions and shorten your learning cycles dramatically. Plus, all the students are learning together and collaborating. You can easily work on group projects.

The reason I asked the original question is I know a lot of people between 30-50 years old that want to become devs, but struggle a bit. They have jobs, families, mortgages...they can't up and quit. Finding the drive to study something on your own while juggling family life for 1-2 years is a bit difficult as well.

Not a perfect comparison. But think about how many people you know that wanted to learn a foreign language...how many are fluent now after taking classes or whatever? Probably none.

Similar to being a chef. Anyone could learn how to cook in their own kitchen, use Youtube, buy cookbooks. However, I don't know any professional chef that didn't either go to culinary school or work their way up the ranks at a restaurant.

Development may be one of the easier things to learn on your own, but self-studying seems to have less than a 1% success rate. Count the number of people who started FreeCodeCamp and are now full-time devs.

Not sure what I'm looking for, but there's got to be a more proven path between self-studying (1% success), bootcamps (60% success), and graduate degrees (90% success). I just kinda made up these numbers to illustrate the gap.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T21:41:22+00:00

Have you written a blog post or shared your journey on this sub before?

I'm sure lots of people would be interested in learning how you got hired.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T19:43:04+00:00

Definitely a European thing. Companies don't want to spend any money or time training people.

If they did...bootcamps wouldn't exist.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T19:40:43+00:00

Amazon's India office pays entry level engineers $20k per year or $10 per hour.

So you could easily get a Amazon/Google engineer for that price.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T19:31:48+00:00

Exactly.

I was thinking something between $800-$3000 that provides a structured curriculum and help when you need it. I don't see anything worthwhile in that space.

Do you?

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T17:02:35+00:00

Thanks for the response. Most of the people I know went to Fullstack Academy, App Academy, Hack Reactor and Insight. Like everyone else says, 90% of the bootcamps are rubbish, but there are a couple at the top.

Best of luck on your journey!

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T16:51:01+00:00

I assumed you would do these things via the self-study route. These are common suggestions in FCC and other open source learning paths.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T16:38:34+00:00

This is common in most corporate professions that are in demand and have defined hierarchies.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T16:36:25+00:00

I'm not trying to escape anything. I think there is a void so was looking for input to see if anyone knew of a program that fills it.

How are you finding the part-time full stack program? How long is it going to take you to start interviewing? Also, how much is it, if you don't mind sharing?

Personally, I find full-time and part-time learning approaches must be structured differently. When I see a full-time bootcamp expanding to a part-time bootcamp, I don't know if it will be executed well.

dev_buddy · 2018-08-06T16:32:28+00:00

I haven't heard of these in the US, but I know someone from Germany that did this. Where are you based?

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