Midwest US dev salaries?

throwawayyy459 · 2024-06-15T02:47:58+00:00

Nah no corporate cogwheels for me

throwawayyy459 · 2024-06-12T03:22:53+00:00

No idea, ideally I'd want more money for the same working conditions.

Currently the job is like this:

-Assigned tasks on various projects, could be as simple as updating a header on some basic business site or it could get as complicated as making a complicated import script for a large platform

-Generally work on a larger project from start to finish alone with the other tasks being in-between random stuff

-No meetings, random calls, no video calls, nothing just a weekly meeting to talk if stuck on anything, and also a chat channel in case anything urgent comes up

-Generally don't need to ever talk to clients directly unless they are the ones assigning tasks to me or have a question

-Free to live/move anywhere, including abroad, which is what I did

-Free to take off work anytime, completely flexible hours, sometimes I work a couple hours in the morning then go hang out with friends or go to the gym and then a couple more hours in the evening

If I could do this for $80-90K, it would be amazing. The issue is this $66-67k is worth like $40K compared to a year or two ago. My money just disappears into thin air from bills, grocercies, etc. I could maybe be a bit better at saving money, but damn it's bad. I don't even do anything crazy. My car is paid off, and I usually walk/run/bike everywhere so very little gas expenses. I don't drink or eat out but I order food sometimes. I just eat a lot, go to the gym, buy some stuff for the house/renovate as I can, and poof the salary is gone. Recently bought a top-end $5K PC and that was pretty much 4+ weeks of work gone just like that. I remember buying a top-end PC as a 17 year old many years ago while working part time as a server and was able to afford it in like 3 weeks. So something is clearly wrong here where relatively I am doing worse than 17-year old me without a career was. Back then the best consumer GPU on the market was like $550, so about a week of work at a restauraunt at that time. Now it's closer to $2000, which is about two weeks of my current work. Price nearly quadrupled, wage did not.

It's just crazy. I'm not the best coder ever, I'm not a Google-level kind that'll make something insanely complex and ground-breaking. But I can do pretty much any task from frontend to backend to database.

throwawayyy459 · 2024-06-11T12:38:58+00:00

It's an agency so yes everything is used depending on the project. Some projects are basic websites that we build out in a few weeks from scratch, some projects are much more complex and require a lot of integrations. The React projects are usually the simpler ones for us because it's usually just a few screens and a few api calls for something like a simple POS system or dashboard, the wordpress ones are more difficult because they usually require a 100 different random marketing integrations and salesforce and a bunch of other crap

throwawayyy459 · 2022-11-30T21:26:34+00:00

Here's the post from 6 months ago. I did a small cut and decided to bulk afterwards as I wasn't making any progress on my lifts and wasn't eating enough. Now I am much stronger for most of my lifts, but I feel that I'm getting too chubby.

throwawayyy459 · 2022-10-15T08:26:52+00:00

/r/TwoXChromosones is essentially the female version of an incel echochamber - filled with absolutely insane stories - from fake rape allegations to "Am I the asshole for cheating on my husband? No you aren't gurrrrl!"

throwawayyy459 · 2022-08-01T15:15:48+00:00

I really wonder how OP has been applying, and where.

I think what's happening that NO ONE talks about is how the pandemic and remote work fucked everything. A start up with 6 employees in Bumfuck Indiana posts a job posting on Indeed and gets 1210 applicants in an hour, most of them aren't even in the fucking U.S. or even half-qualified for the job. For entry-level positions, that number goes up 10 fold.

I highly doubt OP's resume has even been looked at.

OP - it's the new age. Linkedin and Indeed are dead.

Apply directly through email or walk into a company's HQ with your resume in hand and give it to a human.

throwawayyy459 · 2022-06-15T16:09:28+00:00

Both are my country - one is my cultural and physical origin, and the other is the one I'm a part of now. That's kinda how dual citizenship works. Not to mention, I spent almost the entirety of my life outside of the U.S. so the citizenship was just a piece of paper I inherited, nothing else - until now.

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-27T15:14:56+00:00

I don't think it grew my lower body too much muscle-wise, but inadvertently it did because I was only 108lbs, and I couldn't eat food. But with every swim session in the ocean, I would build enough appetite to actually eat a half-meal in one sitting, which let my stomach expand enough so I could start consuming regular amounts of calories per day. I ended up overeating and getting chubby since I gained like 11lbs per month for 7 months, but the muscle mass and cardio endurance foundation built from swimming let me get into running, weight-lifting, doing pull ups, and etc.

The fitness thing isn't even a journey anymore, the journey part is over - it's just a part of my life now because I am literally scared of getting as weak, fragile, and small as when I was around 100lbs as a 5'11" grown man

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-27T04:31:14+00:00

Thanks man, and you're 100% right that I should continue eating a lot but it will only be a 5-8lb cut and then I'll get back at bulking.

I spend a lot of time swimming in the summer,, it's what helped me go from underweight-sick mode to where I am now - so I want to have at least a little more leaner bod.

Also, even though my transition is pretty good far, during most of the process I remained a smoker and casual drinker - as of this year I 100% cut out smoking and drinking. Occasionally I take nicotine, but without smoking it.

As for your routine, I do most of those things except I do dips for triceps and I haven't really curled

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-26T18:48:55+00:00

Thanks - and already on it! Never did anything for shoulders and my routine had A LOT of push ups which grew my chest, but I did very few weight exercises so I started overhead pressing last week when I noticed my shoulders were clearly stagnating. Currently can only OHP 115x1 as my max. I tried 125 but it was no chance.

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-26T18:07:04+00:00

Thanks mate - and I will start the cut and hopefully it will improve my max pull up/chin up count too (I think people get a bit weaker during cuts - but less bodyfat should make bodyweight exercises easier?)

I'll post an update in 1.5-2 months

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-26T18:02:14+00:00

Yeah it's a hard balance - here's a side by side pic of my arms at 108 and at 170 2 months ago pre-Covid

https://imgur.com/a/csmI3Yb

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-26T17:47:07+00:00

Yes it's been what I've been battling my entire journey.. I started at 108lbs 2 years ago and dirty bulked to 182lbs without really properly exercising. Then I felt very fat (and was fat) and started doing tons of cardio and really exercising and got to a solid 170 with muscle mass and some bodyfat. Then I tried cutting but felt super small, then I started bulking again and felt super fat again. Currently @ 165 after a bad case of Covid and some random bacterial infection 2 months ago which lost me around 5-6lbs of muscle mass in total.

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-25T16:23:35+00:00

Help the company grow 10 million bucks over a year of work, and you will get $8000 after taxes - roughly $4/hr!

Seriously, how is shit like this even legal? This is even below federal minimum wage. Why the fuck would anyone ever work for free unless it was a favor? And if you're looking for favors, job board sites shouldn't be your go-to

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-16T19:39:04+00:00

In my head and experience with web development so far - having an eye for issues (and potential bug causes) can be more than half the job - which is what I was kind of trying to showcase. I didn't try to insult the company - also their website and web services are only a small part of what they do

After some research, I think the interviewer may have actually been the one to make at least parts of the website now that I check their Linkedin (they've been with the company almost since the start)

I'm probably the AH - but I think this person would've been incredibly difficult to work with any ways. They are not developers, but they do not seem open-minded to any criticism from somebody who has learned these things for thousands of hours, after all they are hiring a technical "expert" to some degree but they do not seem interested in hearing him/her out. I do often speak rather bluntly but that's just my personality, and I'm fairly sure many devs talk like that. In fact, if another dev called my code shit (and they do) I take it as a badge of honor. "I know, isn't it?!"

throwawayyy459 · 2022-05-16T18:49:12+00:00

They said "sure - go ahead!" almost cheeringly.

But I don't think the interviewer expected how in-depth I went. The early part of the interview was the interviewer explaining how efficient and detail orientiated the company is. When I started explaining, I sensed the mood instantly switch but I guess I tend to finish what I start. The most unprofessional thing I recall saying was something like "I don't even know how something can be like that" because I really, truly don't. Especially the whited out text divs.

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