That's a fair point. From what I've seen it really comes down to the hours you put in outside of class and your own side projects. Being able to speak the language, walk through the stack you used and why, issues you ran into and how you overcame them.
I've been on the fence on going to a bootcamp for years, since the dev bootcamp days because I don't feel I could complete a CS degree given all that math. I've also been in various FAANG companies the past 5 years and while not in a dev/swe role I have picked up some things as I go. The front end and user interfaces is something I've been interested for a while so I think I may pivot to front end dev or some kind of automation engineer for UI testing. Are there any release engineers here?
If I may ask... what specialization are you in? and is it the same thing you started off in? I've been thinking of pivoting and have narrowed it down to 1-3 niches, but also don't have a degree but currently working in a FAANG company.
As someone that used to work on the Play Store team many many moons ago... a lot of that was outsourced to overseas which resulted in much slower response time. Here stateside we had a lot of metrics in place to fast response. Typically your app would get reviewed the same day. Not sure what it's like now but the managers were incompetent back then even so.
Negative reps (lowering dumbbell) is often overlooked in weight lifting. I see people trying to lift fast but have bad form. Negatives are where real strength and muscle is built. See: Dorian Yates.
Since I already had a ryobi drill, I bought a ryobi battery powered vacuum that uses the same batteries. It's not going to be stronger than the ridgid or shopvacs but it definitely gets the job done for cleaning my car.
I guess I should consider myself lucky that if I shave my facial hair (in 30's) I knock off about 15 years. Just getting a haircut alone I always get told I have a youthful looking face. All my colleagues have always guessed I was younger than them.
For aging, I have heard great things about creatine supplementation for cognitive benefits (lots of research backs this supplement and it's relatively safe)
For me my instagram went from being a place to share photos/videos with other creatives to my friends and family sending memes and videos they find funny. It's actually allowed me to remain connected to old coworkers from as far back as 7-8 years ago.
This is more true for game testers/QA (notorious for low pay and turnover) than software QA in other industries. SDET's are developers that focus on testing and get paid on par with devs.
Squirrels are a pain just as rats are but in another way. They're all around the apartments I live in and constantly get into our plants and destroy them. I spray cayenne pepper and other deterrents once in a while but they don't always work unless you keep at it multiple times a day.
Find ways to stay distracted. How you make it through these times is what will build you stronger mentally and physically. Maybe do some traveling, take up a hobby. For example, a lot of people that take up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or a martial art say it changed their life positively mentally and physically via losing a ton of weight. Me personally, I'd take this time to go off the grid a bit, go hiking, camping of some sort and clear out my mind.
Ridiculous. Pay property taxes and still told what to do with YOUR property? The code also says "to prevent amassing vehicles" but this is just ONE vehicle. I'm also pretty sure that there is a much bigger and more productive way to preserve neighborhood aesthetics like you know... those tents, fecal matter and needles on the streets of San Francisco?
Thankfully my company built its own internal tool similar to Jira. Unfortunately this is not the case for other companies or smaller companies since it can be cost-prohibitive.