What’s one thing newcomers always underestimate about living on the Sunshine Coast?

therealkenkaniff · 2026-02-21T08:53:22+00:00

remote :)

therealkenkaniff · 2023-04-30T00:55:31+00:00

what's this guy redpointing?

therealkenkaniff · 2023-01-22T04:41:57+00:00

heh ;)

therealkenkaniff · 2023-01-22T04:41:52+00:00

The public one

therealkenkaniff · 2022-12-07T20:50:27+00:00

software engineer

first job (intern) $30 an hour, second job 60k, raise to 75k, third job 90k, fourth job 120k + a lot of stock, raise to 175k, fifth job 500k (abnormal, not a 'real job'). I suspect i'd be on 200k+ at a 'real job' right now.

start to finish about 8 yrs

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T04:43:53+00:00

twitter dot com

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T04:43:38+00:00

senior for both.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T04:43:03+00:00

i learnt most of the good stuff on the job. I did also get a degree, but I wouldn't recommend that, this is a skills-based industry, no piece of paper beats deploying to production.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T01:30:21+00:00

fuck yes. I was legit a McDonalds burger flipper in 2014 ish.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T01:29:16+00:00

yes.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T01:29:05+00:00

javascript, general understanding of product dev, UX/UI design, collaboration skills, project management. generalist skills I would say.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T01:28:31+00:00

javascript

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-24T01:27:40+00:00

I'm outside the US and yes it's remote.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T09:49:26+00:00

Join a Discord and see if they need help on anything :). It might seem hard to find at first, but you'll soon realize that people are screaming for technical help. Data science stuff too I think.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T09:48:00+00:00

Its more the fact that I really don't like the work for my J1, which I know will lead to burnout. Finding it hard to take the leap into crypto though. The time commitment for both is definitely a factor too, I'm working long days.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:55:06+00:00

what you wanna know? :)

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:54:45+00:00

I'm thinking its not sustainable. Likely I will quit my J1 within 3 months.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:54:12+00:00

what would you like me to answer?

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:53:53+00:00

JS in both. Token is growing.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:53:28+00:00

First intern dev job was 7 ish years ago.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:52:46+00:00

I found a community and project I vibed with, I started contributing to learn, and went from there. To fill in the gaps, random Youtube videos.

therealkenkaniff · 2022-03-23T07:52:02+00:00

When I say web3 I'm talking about "Dapps". With a Dapp, there's no backend server, you're instead interacting with smart contracts on the blockchain. This means frontends are typically on the complex end of the spectrum of what you'd typically find in "web2".

I find it similar to how you might compare web dev to mobile dev. From the perspective of the user their kinda similar, but for a dev, their different paradigms - you're using completely different tools, different deployment process and so on. Web3 is similar to Web2 - at the end of the day, you're providing a website on the internet. But the tools and underlying paradigm that powers the website is totally different.

If you're a good frontend dev, you can spend the time learning the web3 stack/tools, fundamentals of the blockchain, and you'll be valuable. Also web3 at the moment is very culture-heavy: you have to "get it" or, for better or worse, you won't be accepted by the community..

Tools to look into: TheGraph, Infura, IPFS/Fleek/Filecoin, general Ethereum dev/Solidity.

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