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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Then your profile sucks. Mine did, too.

    I made my profile look like my resume. And then tweaked it until the inmail I got was for jobs I wanted.

    Part of it comes down to knowing how to write a good resume, the other part is gaming the keywords so your profile shows up in a good recruiter’s results.

    I still responded to every single message though because I’m pretty sure engagement metrics makes you more/less visible to prospective recruiters.



  • I have too many…I’ll pick my favorite lessons as they’re all kind of related

    Don’t stay at a job too long. Eventually, you’ll be training a new hire that makes more than you and they’ll probably be your replacement.

    It only takes a couple promotions before your career development stagnates usually because you’ll always be seen as the person you were when you started. Get a new job elsewhere with a title higher than the place you left and that becomes your new baseline. Repeat every few years.

    If you want to earn more money, get a new job. Bonuses magically dry up. And your yearly performance increase won’t ever keep up with inflation. Even lateral moves at a different company can mean decent salary inceease as market rate changes over time. (This doesn’t always work with a lateral move so shoot for a higher position).

    Don’t sweat the specifics for job requirements in postings. They’re not expecting someone that hits every bullet point. That would be dream candidate that doesn’t exist. If you’re at least familiar with what they’re asking for and can pick it up, then you’re good. Most of the time you’re trained on the job anyway. Just demonstrate you’re competent.

    (Oops didn’t realize this was a CS / programming community. Hopefully some of this still applies)



  • I choose to use Instant Ink because I don’t print a lot and it still beats buying the carts. HP ships them to me for free and automatically before I run out and gives me return postage for the empties to be recycled.

    They also don’t have different rates for B/W and Color so I just print everything in color.

    I dont stress over $1/mo (or $1.50/mo if this increase hits me). I’ve had this printer for 2yrs on the cheapest plan and I’ve still not paid the full price of a set of cartridges.

    I’m sure I’ll be down votes for saying anything positive about the program but whatever. It works fine for me.





  • I also don’t understand the whole “it depreciates in value” angle. Yes, everything I buy new depreciates in value once it is no longer new. I’m not buying a car to immediately sell it. So who cares?

    Are there people out there flipping cars like they do with houses? Maybe tell those people.

    I bought my car new and people told me the same thing. I’m still driving it 13yrs later and have had no major maintenance issues; only regular maintenance like oil, tire rotation, lube etc. The most expensive thing I’ve put into it are new tires.

    I’ll buy my next car new again and do the same thing.


  • Cashiers also have their place, for when you have larger checkouts and what have you.

    In my grocery stores they’ve gone so far as making self checkouts with conveyor belts so you can do those large checkouts yourself.

    I refuse to use them. If I have a couple small items, then sure self-checkout makes sense. I don’t get cost savings, but I do get the convenience of a speedy checkout; faster than the single express lane they used to have.

    But I’ll be damed if I’m going to be a free cashier for them and scan an entire cart load of groceries and get nothing in return. At the very least pay for a bagger, wtf. Those are the real job killers right there.