Comment by career_throwy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by career_throwy | Hacker News Reader

My career

Graduated top college in 2012.

2014 First software job at a startup. 6 months.

2015 Second software job at a startup. 5 months.

2016 Third job. 2 months.

2017 Started my own company using inheritance. Didn't make anything or get any clients.

2018 Fourth job. 3 months.

2020 Latest job 1 year and counting!

(The ultimate irony is my current job is not a programming job but giving career advice to programmers and people who want to be programmers.)

My jobs finish either because I am too overwhelmed by them so I quit or I feel like I'm wasting my time working for someone else so I quit to start my own company.

It's shit. I feel suicidal a lot. I've been to doctors and they tell me I'm fine, that I'm not depressed etc. I don't think I'm going to go out and kill myself tomorrow, but my life is devoid of hope.

I just want a boring job writing boring code. Read something from a database. Generate a few tables. Output some PDFs. I've given up on trying to get into FAANG although the envy I feel for all my friends from college who did that is enormous.

There are sooooo many boring coding jobs out there. Just keep looking. Don’t attach your happiness to things out of your control. Honestly, who gives a shit if you work for a FAANG? Most of those companies sound pretty bad for the average engineer (at least from what I’ve read on HN). Find happiness outside of work and your salary, because at the end of all of our lives it doesn’t matter how much money we made or if we worked for Facebook or Apple. It’s the memories you had and the memories you instilled in others that remains. (And that only remains for a few generations)

I promise the people in FAANG are not more rewarded or happy than you on average, at least with respect to their job. I’ve been in them, and people either complain, or are jealous of the people making startup millions.

It’s a fact of life that wherever you want to be more than anything, someone is already there unhappy.

Happiness doesn’t come from FAANG or wherever else. But it doesn’t come easy either, you gotta cultivate it.

ping me -- let's create something.

i dig the advisor job -- i always half-joke about the best way to become an expert at something is to just be really bad at it, declare yourself an expert, profit$$$$.

How did you get this current job? Sounds like an interesting job. I might be a good fit.

Why can't you get into FAANG?

I used to fail on the coding screen. Now I don't even get to that step.

I'm concerned that I might have been blacklisted from some companies for applying for jobs way above my level of experience when I was in periods of mania.

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