>circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) no free food, my company is stingy. Usually work 8 hours, but sometimes much less and other times much more. I walk about 35 minutes each way to work and back, but I also usually work from home one day a week. Office is like a call center I fucking hate it.
>describe what you do in a typical day come in earlier than everyone else, crank on code until noon or so, usually have a meeting or two in the early afternoon and then spend the late afternoon either answering people's questions, coding more or working on something management was too dumb to prioritize
>job satisfaction 0-10 4. Lots of money, my coworkers are morons. I'm slowly losing my passion because I'm surrounded by apathy
>leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? n/a. work, come home, video games / weed / tv / alcohol, repeat.
>what do you do with your acquired wealth? save it. once I have enough money I'm going to buy a rural house, quit and never work in corporate america again.
>profession graduate research assistant >salary 34k stipend + 12k tuition waivers >background/education/certs bachelor in CS, doing master now >age 22 >country/region illinois, usa >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) set my own hours, telecommute is an option. i have two workspaces available, one with a dedicated desk and a dank workstation with a 7700k and 2 ultrasharps and other neat shit, one with an empty cube (when I TA). i have two bosses who love me, so i end up getting lunch bought for me once or twice a week. i get paid to travel to various cities for 5-6 days at a time, several times a year >describe what you do in a typical day >>wake up at 11am >>go to class >>go to lunch >>go to work and hang out with pajeets, answer everyone's questions, program ((machine learning)) code, reply to ten million emails, answer stupid questions from students, read papers, write papers >>go home at 8 or 9pm >>shitpost until 2am >>go to bed >job satisfaction 0-10 7 >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? i have several hours a day to shitpost or do as i please. weekends are usually completely open. >what do you do with your acquired wealth? buy memepads and liquor
>describe what you do in a typical day Java/Go dev
>job satisfaction 0-10 9
Charles Harris
> >profession NEET > >salary Couple hundred a year, sometimes compensated with items of value > >background/education/certs College dropout with expired A+ cert (that I never ended up using) > >age 25 > >country/region NW USA > >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) I do get free home-cooked meals > >describe what you do in a typical day Shitpost, anime (sometimes), fap, eat and sleep (in no particular order) > >job satisfaction 0-10 1 (you can’t have 0 you brainlet) > >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? Too much time in my own head, about once a week my friend and I will go to a restaurant and BS for a couple hours. > >what do you do with your acquired wealth? I was saving money for a trip to glorious Nippon but I pissed it all away.
> >profession Java junior dev (technically java + js + sql...) > >salary ~1k ewro > >background/education/certs masters degree. Java assoc cert > >age Near 30 > >country/region LTU > >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) 40k week. Commute ~30 min to one side if catch bus right away. Open space. Free redbull/juice sometimes. > >describe what you do in a typical day fix bugs. Add features. review others code. Code code code. > >job satisfaction 0-10 8 > >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? no social. Spare time after work. > >what do you do with your acquired wealth? spend on food and rent. Also internet to shiypost on 1/2 chan
Matthew Torres
>software engineer (Scala) >$10/hr >studying cs, impressive projects, no certs >19 >Siberia, Russia >remote (Swedish company) >they make me do random things and program in languages I didn't sign up for >3.25/10 boss does not have it together >save for my own business, rent, tea, bountysource
Connor Nguyen
What was the previous profession, dovydas?
William Cruz
Previously - dev in other place. Also, that is not even most popular LTU name. Nice try though. If you were actually thinking about someone you know - what company do you think I work for?
Matthew Gomez
>profession NEET >salary $0 >background/education/certs High school drop-out (long story, not going into detail. Currently looking into alternatives) >age 19 >country/region Ontario, Canada >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) Free food, shelter, internet access >describe what you do in a typical day Eat, shit, sleep, contemplate suicide, browse the internet, do amateur programming/music >job satisfaction 0-10 0 >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? What's this "social life" you all talk about? >what do you do with your acquired wealth? Shitpost in perpetual depression.
Julian Rodriguez
Right there with ya, leafbro.
Angel Sanders
>profession solutions architect / technical presales >salary 65k >background/education/certs bsc comp sci, studying masters comp sci, aws certs >age 23 >country/region australia >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) 15m commute, open-plan office, no free food but decent snacks >describe what you do in a typical day attending meetings, solutions architecting, research, some software dev when needed, prototyping >job satisfaction 0-10 8, i get pretty good freedom to do shit and experiment >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? enough, the masters is eating into it, i've recently stopped playing vidya because i don't have the time/energy >what do you do with your acquired wealth? accumulate + budget travelling once every 6 months or so
Jaxson Price
How the hell do people manage to drop out of schools?
Ian Johnson
>>salary >total comp $175k
what is your salary?
Wyatt Watson
0 would mean you get no satisfaction from your job
Charles Russell
It would. How is that related to my post?
Connor Jenkins
wrong post, meant the one above you
Michael Flores
>Profession Building Controls Integration Engineer >Salary 40k >Background/Education/Certs None >Age 25 >Country US >Circumstances Commuting ~40 minutes each way, but moving to the area soon. Paid lunch, tons of freedom as long as I'm keeping up with projects >Describe a typical day There isnt much of a typical day; Some days I need to go out to a job site, some days I'm just working in the office on custom Tridium drivers, some days I'm literally just given some time to dick around with new devices >Job Satisfaction 8/10, only downside is my boss can occasionally insist on me doing something the wrong way. >Leisure time Not much; I generally work 50+ hour weeks (Paid OT, so I go above that 40k number every year) >What do you do with your acquired wealth Save it mostly; When I do spend money, it's on random niche interests I float around to. I'm weirdly into cologne right now and sort of collecting it.
Jordan Perez
>profession software engineer at some US startup
>salary $120k/y
>background/education/certs bachelors in software, big focus on enterprise shit
>age 24
>country/region western europ
>circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) work from home all day every day, life's good
>describe what you do in a typical day wake, personal errands, work, chat/call with the americans when they come online, work more, sleep
>job satisfaction 0-10 9/10 would struggle with international employment law again
>leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? super flexible
>what do you do with your acquired wealth? hardware, savings and crypto
Alexander Thompson
>profession QA Game test >salary 417$ / month >background/education/certs psychology ongoing >age 20 >country/region Romania >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) free fruits on Mondays, ocasionally free donuts and concert tickets, 8h work +1h break, work on weekends and onther 3 days during the week,open space studio >describe what you do in a typical day functional / nonfunctional game testing >job satisfaction 0-10 4, easy, can focus on school, almost no money >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? spent time with gf, learn new computer stuff so I can get a new job >what do you do with your acquired wealth? right now nothing
Isaiah Torres
Jeez... Is it that desperate at triple letter agencies?
Connor Flores
>profession Fullstack Node.js dev
>salary 60k USD a year, ehich is pretty high where I live
>background/education/certs 4 years of security/sysadmin from military service. Tired of that shit and gone dev. Trying to get AWS cert soon. No degree yet. >age 23 >country/region Israel >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) Not counting hours, usually 9 hours per day. They pay for my commute and food by a fixed amount. No cubicles thank god.
>describe what you do in a typical day Fix bugs, develop new features, shitpost, learn new stuff from articles and tutorials, get bored at meetings. >job satisfaction 0-10 8 >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? Evenings, holidays and weekends >what do you do with your acquired wealth? Save for degree and pay family debts
Liam Collins
>profession I take care of children. >salary like 830€/month >background/education/certs just obligatory education >age 22 >country/region Spain >circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) I have been working and earning a good salary, but I was called to do this job so I could get a title, and I actually need it for something I do on my off days. I also live with my mother and his bf, so it's ok to get such a salary for me. >describe what you do in a typical day 5 hours of work a day and then 2,5 of class >job satisfaction 0-10 7, maybe 8 >leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? I wake up at 12:45 and get prepared for work from 14:00 to 21:30, then I shitpost all the night. I have Saturdays and Sundays free. >what do you do with your acquired wealth? As all I get is for me and I don't pay much more than the internet at my home, I just buy nice stuff for myself, like new HDDs, cases. When I get the tittle, I will work less and get even more, I will try to climb up and such, it looks easy.
Nicholas Gray
>>profession Sysadmin >>salary $133k >>background/education/certs Bachelors in IT and a bunch of certs >>age 38 >>country/region Chicago >>circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) 8 hours a day, no more unless there is an emergency >>describe what you do in a typical day Work on projects, fix things that are broken >>job satisfaction 0-10 8 >>leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? Study new things, vidya, time with family >>what do you do with your acquired wealth? Retire
Oliver Brown
Fuck off CIA nigger.
Bentley Edwards
>Israel >Has debts
Good on you for trying to pay your family's debts, jewbro
Leo Morales
>profession Full stack web developer
>salary £25,000
>background/education/certs Self Educated
>age 23
>country/region Britbongistan
>circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) 9am-5pm, 20 minutes bike ride, horrific open plan office, free tea/coffee
>describe what you do in a typical day Have a morning status meeting Complete whatever JIRA tickets have been assigned to me Completely upend my schedule as new random shit turns up that is """urgent""" Redundant status meetings that are me just reading JIRA out. Rarely I'll get a new project rather than fixing legacy stuff
>job satisfaction 0-10 6
>leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? I Lurk Jow Forums Programming isn't interesting as a hobby when you do it as a job. And gaming doesn't hold my interest anymore. I think that's just the depression though.
>what do you do with your acquired wealth? Hoard ThinkPads
>salary: ??? (Just quit my job to start a web development firm, but I've made $3000 so far)
>background/education/certs: Self Taught college dropout
>age 20
>country/region USA/TN
>circumstances (hours, commute, telecommute, cubicle, free food, etc) Live at parents house, help with bills
>describe what you do in a typical day I wake up, look into different javascript frameworks/libraries, work on a few projects, and eat pizza rolls
>job satisfaction 0-10 10
>leisure/spare time/social/time to yourself? I dedicate a lot of my time to building the brand, but I go to raves and concerts to let everything go and let loose. It's really therapeutic imo because you can just forget everything and have fun
>what do you do with your acquired wealth? I'm saving as much as I can until I get to the point where I can buy a McLauren or some shit
I'm just kind of enjoying life while I'm young and if the company goes to shit, I'll just go back to college and become a slave to society like everyone else