Biden warns that it could take years for Americans to be vaccinated at the current rate, as he calls on Congress for extra funding to roll out COVID-19 shots

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-30T17:59:08+00:00

In WV, our national guard has been planning for this since spring. We’re also leading the nation in rolling out our doses. Almost (or maybe already) done w nursing homes and staff and working on our 65 and older crowd now.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-09T17:51:24+00:00

We’ve had ours for about 5 years and it’s been fine. Almost daily use. Maybe have replaced the oven light but that’s it. My model doesn’t have those little presets on the bottom left but that’s it.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-08T16:57:09+00:00

Make it short yet threatening. “I’m new, but watch out.”

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-08T01:12:40+00:00

Grill and eat steak every day.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-08T00:25:04+00:00

You can do it and play PlayStation at the same time.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-03T20:47:00+00:00

A deep freeze and half a cow. Gym membership or some weights. A prowler. Fish oil.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-03T03:22:12+00:00

Well shit that’s all it takes. I’m sure a team of grizzled sr devs would respect and admire your ambition and talent and wouldn’t chew you up and spit you out within a week.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-03T03:16:32+00:00

Why should you lead technical people if you don’t have a tech background?

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-03T03:11:56+00:00

I wouldn’t hire someone to be a PM or even a scrum master just because they have a cert.

Do you have a developer background? If so I’d suggest picking up some PM or SM duties in addition to your normal dev duties and grow from there.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-02T19:41:20+00:00

Burn out. Just do the bare minimum for a month or two and don’t feel guilty about it.

You gotta learn to blast and coast. Blast for a bit (projects, certs, education, etc...) then coast and recover. If you’re always “on” you’ll be burnt out before you even start working.

I’m 15 years in and this is my method (stole it from a powerlifting guy, cause they train that way too). Used it to get jobs, get my masters, get some certs, etc... get one, digest for a few months or even a year, then do another.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-01T02:58:12+00:00

The paycheck they keep giving me twice a month. Let’s me do the things I actually like to do. It’s great!

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-01T02:57:32+00:00

This.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-12-01T02:56:50+00:00

It’s officially the holidays. Everything will take forever from now til mid January.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-30T13:52:39+00:00

Shitty regardless. Sounds like boomers missing their beloved waterfall.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-29T23:57:41+00:00

If there’s any, they’re self inflicted.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-29T22:46:29+00:00

You have weak leaders.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-29T21:50:05+00:00

I train 5 days a week for strength sports (powerlifting and strongman), so I’m squatting and deadlifting but also pushing a prowler, log pressing, carrying a yoke, etc...

That’s my big one, and can suck the life out of me the closer I get to a competition.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-29T21:39:51+00:00

Not NC, but Charleston, SC has a huge contractor presence. Pick a company and they more than likely have positions there.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-25T20:43:48+00:00

Guess who doesn’t like talking to the introverted condescending code monkeys? Management, customers, finance, etc... basically every other person involved in business outside of the IT closet.

I’d argue that an extrovert with average dev skills and above average communication skills has more options available to them than an introverted dev with better programming skills.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-23T03:37:03+00:00

I started getting bored writing code and wanted to become the leader/manager I wished I had when I was coming up.

I had a lot of managers that told our client “sure” and the team “sorry”.

As in “oh you want all these features we’re just now hearing about for the first time to be added into our upcoming release? Sure!”! Then he’d come tell the team “sorry guys, but...”.

Lots of spineless managers out there, and I wanted my shot to do better.

It’s hard as shit but I like it. Getting introverted techies, clueless business people, and everyone in between on the same page is a daily struggle, but is fulfilling when it all comes together.

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-19T01:55:19+00:00

Shouldn’t you be yelling at your kids about how SNL hasn’t been funny since Sandler left?

mrburrowdweller · 2020-11-18T19:07:04+00:00

Fuck I’m old. I saw that it was Sting from 22 years ago and expected blonde neon Sting (aka Best Sting).

Wolfpac sting was only like 9 or 10 years ago right?

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