Good point, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective. Almost like a "grass is greener on the other side" type phenomenon. I wonder if there's a name for this?
Don't say "fast paced". I take this as an indication that the work will be a "move fast and break things" type of culture. Many engineers want to build solid infrastructure and/or cutting edge tech which takes time and thought to develop. Many engineers do want a challenge - we can tell if it's a challenging job post from the rest of the ad.
Take this with a grain of salt, some people do actually like "fast paced" of course.
Taking some time off to purely focus on networking could be a good option. Networking is great fun when you have spare cycles. Networking when you have a full-time job - not so.
Maintaining a network when you have a full-time job is much easier than building one.
Yes. Particularly important is gesticulation, if you don't gesticulate at exactly the right silicon valley cadence you may as well not even be talking.
It's interesting that you assume the OP was talking about Silicon Valley. Many people assume that HN is centered in SV, but HN became an international community years ago. The vast majority of community members aren't headquartered in SV and don't identify with it or even particularly like it.
Make sure you're not taking any medication which effects your problem solving skills. Nothing is without suspicion, even things you take for granted. Sometimes medication of all kinds, particularly those that effect your hormone system, has unlisted side effects.
Another silent killer is poor air quality. Make sure you're getting lots of fresh air each day.
I see. No I don't take any medication of any kind. Haven't taken any medication of any sort in the last 5 years, no pain killers, no coffee nothing. Strange now that I think about it. Must be bunch of other stuff like you mentioned. Thanks for the reply
Incorrect; I've had multiple full-time part-time jobs (once two at a time, which worked out really well). I don't quite understand where you're coming from here.
Sadly there's some truth to this. I'd really hoped that once I was adult it'd be easier to distance myself from people who reward effort for effort's sake.
On a related note, it's also really hard to distance yourself from people who "are doing it wrong" in general. I can't tell you the amount of effort I've had to waste learning a topic that from a distance I could vaguely tell was not worth learning, just so I could have reasonable arguments as to why it's inferior to some other idea. This is particularly frustrating in tech because of the complexity of many tech stacks, that just getting to a point where you can sound like an expert just to provide counterpoints can be exhausting.
That's part of the job, though: deciding on technologies requires some knowledge. But I'm not sure I get what you're saying: you know it's inferior how? A "feeling" isn't a valid reason for discounting tech.
I too am a bit guilty of this. In all seriousness, there are a lot of smart people here so it's a reasonable thing to do IMO.