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I'm contracting right now. I have to be honest I can't really complain in this instance. That being said, I'm located in Austria due to family reasons and it seems a total wasteland here contract-wise; and feels like the grim reaper is behind the next contract.

In the EU, the trend that I'm seeing right now is even "remote" contracts require you to be located in that specific EU country. Haven't tried US yet, but I assume without personal contacts and impeccable credentials it is not realistic to convince someone beyond the great pond to hire me.

I imagine my colleagues in the UK or elsewhere might not feel the impending doom, because contracting/consulting over there is pretty much the norm.

good luck mate! may the source code be with you.

I actually worked as FTE in Austria before and its really not much to write home about...

I wish the SW engineering culture in Europe would improve, it seems like we get treated as grunts (best case) or as toddlers (no offense to the said party, toddlers are cool, they just dont get as much credit for their hard work as they should sometimes).

agreed on the doctor route. unfortunately, I'm a bit too old and a bit too married to invest 6 years in medschool.

moving to eastern Europe and getting remote contracts seem like only viable route in Europe. However, it feels like this is only speeding up the decline by de-valueing our western colleagues.

Yes it does, and my original post being flagged and downvoted is proof of it.

But you can't argue with ideologues... tribal hindbrain working double shifts

not sure this could be classified as business, but...

TUXEDO Pulse 14 - gen 1

(2x 32GB) 3200MHz CL22 Samsung

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (8x 2.9-4.2GHz Eight-Core, 16 Threads, 12 MB Cache, 45 W TDP)

1000 GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus

ouch, here's a big one

cognitive dissonance, I would seek help immediately

I wouldn't bother with Berlin. Its filled with cheap startups that pay low and dont offer equity for devs (in my very limited experience of job hunting there).

Moving to west or south Germany instantly means 30% pay raise for a solid dev.

it should accept them all, otherwise its a clear discrimination

it would be nice to program drivers in php, it will open up the space to a lot more contributors!

its a human nature to invent stories to justify ones behavior, it gives an illusion of control in ones life...

nah, most people given an _insert_whatever_amount_ per month as UBI would not come back to their job they are _so_excited_ about or _have_found_purpose_ of doing, it just needs a bit of self awareness and reflection to see that

whatever you are doing now sets the baseline of expectation for your performance in future,

ask yourself whether you want to be working like this for next XX years, when you are older, need more sleep, health issues start showing up, possibly have children or elderly to take care of

ask yourself what kind of social, family and personal life you want to have in future, if you are aiming to be next Elon then go ahead and work yourself to the ground, there is a non zero chance you make it big

I would prefer a doctor that does the best job.

if you are in a strong economy with plenty of jobs such as USA, UK and Germany - lazyness, otherwise the limiting factor is your ability to find contracts once your current one ends

10k line loop that's "Unabstractable"? Never ever dare to change that! It might tilt the Earth off its axis and we'll all freeze to death!

from my experience there are no hard times to explain anything. if you have income from your activities from abroad you declare it and might have to tax it additionally, depending on whether the two countries have any treaties against dual taxation or not.

exactly that. politicians and visionaries with big ideas about green future are one side of the story the other is the implementation and how it works in practice.

thrash tends to conveniently vanish into the 3rd world or east europe, where it gets burned or poisons the environment.

the real question is, why are they not obsessed with Zig

being a freelancer implies there is no fixed work schedule as FTEs might have.. otherwise labor should look into that

as for myself I'm free to work on my own, there are meetings I attend

project's pretty good, fingers crossed it lasts forever

some studies suggest some studies are full of BS

I'm a contractor from eastern europe, its a completely different ball game to contract "cross country". Especially in EU, where much of the work is still done on-site, especially in embedded which is my domain.

note that contracting requires establishing and maintaining relationships. there are also legal implications of messing stuff up. working for a consultancy shields you from all of this.

someone does all their work in 4 hours instead of contracted 8? shouldn't that mean their workload is wrongly managed and estimated to be too low? middle management should be on their toes!

** your mileage may vary

not sure about specifics in training but I had quite a lot of fun reading regular c++ code with variables in english only to scroll and find pages of comments in foreign language like russian or japanese...

another fun with languages happens when coders for whatever reason insist on naming their variables using fusion of english and other language, such as "HornyWidget" (horny means upper in my language)

rust has concept of references, maybe it was referring to its particular implementation of the problem

definitely learn C++ if you are interested about how computing works "under the hood" of modern high level languages

even if C++ went away next year (which it won't, and you can be sure c++ will be here until eventually quantum computing takes over ;) the concepts and understanding of computing you'll learn is still valuable

in terms of advancing your career as a developer, realistically speaking it will advance your career most probably only if you make a switch to jobs that require real time / embedded / high performance / security. for other fields of programing today, c++ level of understanding will not advance your career as much as being a good communicator, acquiring connections and brown nosing

> Fair enough, but this proves the author's point. Development used to be on such a level and has steadily declined.

I agree, I know a few "old timers" and they seem to have it better in the early days. I guess this is the case with all human activity, over time it becomes optimized as know-how spreads to more people.

The best professions long term are those where gate keeping is employed (license, nepotism, high creativity, people able to perform at top 1%), short term profession gets a boost from being "the new thing", which programing is not anymore.

I would like to see that in practice. How much of the code would be in unsafe blocks?

you can get 80+ in Germany in big cities.

what problem are you solving? no, you cant get rich by coding as an employee, anywhere. you can try to sweat your balls as a contractor + do tax magic and have a 'decent' living, or start a company and make a product - very risky.

as job coders are 21st century factory workers, its not on lawyer/doctor/accountant level.

aha EU pass holder here so in practice for job seeking I kind of include both Switzerland and Norway, but technically it is not EU

one thing is what is on payscale another is what you see on the payslip, 60k+ in DE is not hard to get for senior dev