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Where do you see yourself in 5 years? (media.mas.to)
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[-] emptyother@programming.dev 59 points 11 months ago

Damn. Spot on. Not a farm, but a proper house in a rural area with outside space enough for various crafting projects. And a garden. And a cat.

Im dead tired of living in a 5x3 firstfloor apartment with a single window and an outside area under tight control by a HOA. Teenage me enjoyed cramped, spartan living arrangements. Now if only I had money enough.

[-] Gargari@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

100%

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 55 points 11 months ago

Something is missing from the farm picture... oh right, the company actively collapsing in the background because "code maintainability is less of a priority than cost".

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

If technical debt could be reflected on a balance sheet, most businesses I've worked for would resemble Enron right before it's demise.

[-] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 7 points 10 months ago

“What do you mean, tEcHnIcAl DeBt, CoDe MaInTaInAbIlItY? It works just fine. Get the feature done by Friday. Perfection is the enemy of progress!”

— A manager somewhere on planet Earth

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm moving to a few acres this weekend, assuming everything goes well. We got plans for a giant garden, a duck run, and fruit trees. This meme is all truth.

Being fully remote is a great gig if you can swing it.

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've worked with 3 developers who live/work from small hobby farms outside of town, which doesn't sound like a lot, but I've only been in this field for like a decade

I feel like this is my trajectory as well.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"See yourself in x years?" - Dude I'm jobless since about a year. Jobs in developing countries are non-existent.

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Is it hard to get a remote job outside your country?

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, that is next to impossible.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Disclaimer: farming is not a hobby and you need expertise in a broad range of fields, including chemical, technical, administrative. And the job has a high failure rate (if you don't have the expertise) and death rate (big machines and chemical processes).

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How many fields do you need?

One for cows, one for sheep, another for corn, ...

Edit: corrected a fat fingered word

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

one for machines, a half to handle them without losing an arm, another half to repair what you can, one for pestcontrol/fertilisation, one to handle silage/muck without dying or burning your barn, one not to get a fine for missing a law...

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

And one for all the equipment that broke halfway through harvest and you have to fix but ended up replacing to finish harvesting and is now effectively an equipment graveyard

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Part of the senior dream is you have funds to carry you.

My version of the senior dream is to "phase out" of the industry, taking on more bespoke, white label projects, eventually support and advisory roles, as my real life restarts, away from the computer.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

In reality I see myself in the exact same position I'm currently applying for. To impress you I make something up I think you want to hear, but not too far away from what I'm applying for.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago

Was about to make this joke myself.

Honestly the appeal of just running off and living in the middle of nowhere without any responsibilities sounds quite nice. ~~Also getting a fursuit~~.

[-] gramie@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

In the Pulitzer prize-winning book "The Soul of a New Machine", Tracy Kidder writes about a microcode programmer having to deal with timing in nanoseconds. One day his desk was empty and there was a note on the monitor saying that he was going to live in a commune, and no longer deal with any duration shorter than a season.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

This is a mood, especially the bottom right panel.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

A farm would be nice.

[-] atimehoodie@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

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[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 6 points 11 months ago

Still looking for someone else’s solution to solve a problem I haven’t yet encountered, I reckon.

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 6 points 11 months ago

Yes.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I don't get the jr sr part, is that referencing the age of the person in the comic or is it two people?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

It's more referencing the experience. People who haven't worked in tech for long tend to be very optimistic about it, and those who have don't want to do anything with tech and long for simple rustic life.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

ahh!

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