amatxn

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   by amatxn 4y ago

   I’ve cut out anything extra on Mondays. I’ve kept my exercise routine in the morning because it keeps me sane.
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   by amatxn 4y ago

   I’d quit tomorrow if my company offered a decent severance package. I’m super burned out and with attrition and hiring freezes, I’m stuck with double the workload. I wake up in the middle of the night stressing and full of anxiety about goi
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   by amatxn 5y ago

   I’m struggling with a similar situation where I’m at. I’ve experienced significant growth opportunities over the last 5 years, the company I work for is good and growing quickly. I work with friendly and nice folks. I have great benefits, a
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   by amatxn 5y ago

   Hi btown, thanks for the Spreedly plug!! I’m Director of Engineering at Spreedly and helped to launch routing capabilities as a engineer and leader. If the OP already has an existing relationship with a gateway(s), we definitely make it eas
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   by amatxn 8y ago

   I've been working remotely for 18 months, married with a toddler and 10 year old daughter. I classify myself as an introvert, but vary widely from needing to be outgoing to extremely isolating myself. The previous job I left required m
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   by amatxn 9y ago

   Age: 37, Location: TX, NW: $585K
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   by amatxn 10y ago

   Director of Engineering, $98K, 0 equity, $0 bonus. Amarillo, TX
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   by amatxn 10y ago

   @alex-yo Your post is almost a mirror of my situation - senior generalist dev with 15 years experience Ruby/Java/SQL and numerous other languages and frameworks too many to list, looking for something more challenging and unable t
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   by amatxn 11y ago

   I've been trying to learn Elixir in my spare time, feels a lot like the breath of fresh air Ruby/Rails was when it came out. Also, been toying with data science/machine learning w/ Python.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    Gardening is very enjoyable as is working on my home. Something very gratifying about seeing your hard work in physical form versus virtual work.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I've been programming for 15 years, since I was 21. It used to be my passion, work, and hobby. Over the last 3 years I've gradually shifted from development to managing projects and product development, and recently moved to t
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I've been researching and looking into Elixir & Phoenix a lot lately. What are your thoughts having done this side project? I'm coming from a java, ruby perspective with experience in several other languages.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    If she is special than nothing is more important than the her, fix the underlying issues - find a new job, remove the stress, etc - should have done this previously. Having been through a divorce and remarried, I hate to say this but a real
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I don't advocate any of her financial mistakes, but having reached my mid 30's, I realize 1) Old age and life aren't guaranteed. 2) If you wait until retirement to start 'living', you may be unable or unwilling to t
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    Exactly this ^^^. In fact those that leave my company all end up as contractors.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    @sn - no direct contact info on the profile other than co-founder info, don't want to be too stalker-ish in finding you :)
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    They would also expect it for dirt cheap or free :(
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    Company is very small ~10 people, 4 devs. I manage several of the projects and resources.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I've approached my boss several times about this, and any changes are temporary - it's a management issue (same management at both places). I have a need to be on high profile high performing projects (I've lead development
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    Thanks - I did not the advice negatively. I've gone down that route and plan to pursue in the future. A lot of it is perception that I'm not good enough.
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I look daily, I've had several interviews over the years but nothing has worked out. I share custody of my 8 yr old daughter and live in a somewhat isolated area of the US that has very few development jobs (like 5 employers, most of t
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    I've had one of these jobs for years. Each day I come in and expect the gig to be up. It never happens. This has been across 2 companies, for 10 years. From the outside it looks like a dream job, from the inside I'm highly depr
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    by amatxn 11y ago

    ^^ This is want the business guys don't understand. Any business application with a solid foothold will need to be maintained for years into the future. My alma mater has an entire program dedicated to minting mainframe developers be
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    I have shared custody of my 7 year old daughter in an area (Amarillo, TX) that is geographically distant from metros w/ developer jobs, and Amarillo has little IT presence. I've reached the pinnacle of technical jobs in my area (l
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    Wholeheartedly agree about the urbanization trend, but if you look at that data, that whole section of the Plains states and central US that is 'Doing Better' is in large part rural. My county is 'Randall' in the Texas
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    Ruby, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, occasionally C#, VB.Net, PHP, Python, Scala. I'm much more productive in Ruby or even C#, just able to get more done and happier developing in those languages too.
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    I have already forwarded the link to our team, we will be evaluating it to see if it fits for us.
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    We are building something very similar as an internal project to support our payment systems, wish this had been available 2 years ago!
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    Thanks for the help - I will keep in touch with you. My team is a small group (3-5 devs). We have kicked around going freelance separately and as a group. Atlanta is big in the payments industry correct? I previously worked for First Data
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    by amatxn 12y ago

    thanks jSeymourATL - I had thought about using LinkedIn to extend my reach - I work in the payments industry (card issuance & processing) so my knowledge is specialized to a degree.