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As a contractor in Canada, it's because it's a way to get paid more. I've been contracting for so long I might be out of touch with current IT salaries. But when I switched in the mid 2000s 100,000 CAD was a hard cap.

Also Canadian companies don't offer equity. The option programs that I have encountered have always been they type that you lose at the end of your employment. I've also seen companies fire everyone on the eve of a takeover to cancel any options.

I fear for a world where alcohol is banned. I feel modern society is built on it.

A human is the only animal that is aware they will die. Also unique to humans is that we think about what others think. This makes us very anxious.

Alcohol is a known way to relax. It helps calm our minds down. No it's not good for our bodies. But it's very healthy to relax.

* Inflation becomes endemic at 8-9% Interest rates rise to 6% by year end with no recession is sight. * First Starship Launch, with successful first stage recovery * Cannabis removed from schedule 1 * Ceasefire reached in Ukraine by year end

I'm taking the time to learn and use these tools now. (Co-pilot, etc)

They appear to be more autocomplete on steroids, then programmer replacement. It will make devs more efficient, but I doubt it will replace us.

As someone close to 50 in this boat it a great question.

The fact is I wanted to build a startup to get rich. That's it really. Now that I am much more finically secure (but not rich by a long shot) I'm not sure I will want to roll the dice or just keep my job as an IC.

The dot com crash was epic. Keep in mind it was also aligned with post Y2K. The growth in the late 90's was extreme. Both in new tech (Web, Java) and legacy systems (Y2K).

Almost all companies cut IT spending to the bone for about 24 months. The rebound in hiring was pretty quick, but wages where suppressed until the later 2000s.

Compared to how it is now, it's difficult to describe just how small it was. Unless you where at a big tech company, or university it was treated as a type of office job or trade.

I worked on AS/400 accounting software. (I think my boss stole a copy from somewhere else that ran on System/36. ) We supplied this to a few dozen mid sized, blue collar companies in town. (One I remember sold gas station supplies)

Programming would be done on site. Customers would want a new report, or a new field added to their system. I would come on site and code it for them. I guess in a way it was very agile. But I had no team, just me. And once in a while my boss you stop in to see how it was going, and help when I got stuck.

I felt exactly the same way. Very, very hard until the kids are in school full time. But still hard until they are teenagers.

I'm finding the teenage years to be much more pleasant. Getting some payback for all the time invested. I know it's still a long way away for you.

I could not agree more.

You can't compare raw salary numbers. You need to compare total lifestyle / purchasing power.

It's a totally different game now. Job security is gone in both directions. Oh and the world in general is a much more chaotic place. The younger generations are just trying to come to terms with it.

For only text I use https://cl1p.net, basic but works everywhere.

That just isn't true in my case. I started my career in the late 90s and was the young kid at the office. So on my network is full of older developers.

Very few of them have been pushed out of the field. Yes many moved up, but the majority still code. The ones who had not moved into management are either retired (Over 65), retired early (Rich, big payday) or dead.

Yes 125 CAD/ 40 hours a week "Contracting" is very doable in Canada. Especially for a USA company.

Yes, it all leads back to the park.

The only problem now, is the park isn't big enough! Imagine the amount of money a third park in America would make. (And cost)

I can see why it's being taken care of. A town with Tide Water access on Canada's west coast could be very very valuable.

Employee dorms are a real thing here in North America.

After college I had a friend working at in the town of Lake Louise Alberta. This is located in a national park and the number of homes are extremely limited and very expensive.

Visiting my friend they game me the tour of the house. It was a three bedroom 2 bath townhouse with 15 people living in it. 4 beds per room upstairs, and 3 people in the basement.

All the people worked at various retail shops in the village. (Not at the chateau) Making minimum wage.

Thanks for that link. Just got back from Ontario, I'm really surprised that wind generation is so low, they have a lot of wind turbines in south western Ontario. On my hour long drive to the beach I could almost always see one. I saw lots of solar as well.

It's a great problem to have. I think many of us here are in a similar position. Nice comfy jobs, well paid with no chance of promotion. I've been at mine for over a decade. I know it's going to be bad when its over, however there is also the real possibility of this position lasting until I retire.

I think you may be under estimating luck. Maybe you are not underemployed, maybe you are overly lucky?

If that is the case, then let it ride!

Parent of a teen, one anecdote to add. You see what all your friends are doing all the time. Every gathering or event that you where not a part of you see, sometimes in real time.

People hate being excluded, and this greatly amplifies this feeling.

I'm certain I missed out on a ton of cool stuff as a kid, but at least I didn't have to see it.

Wow, as a guy I have a 1/5 chance of not even making it to retirement. (65) 1/3 chance of not living past 75. These are not good odds.

Ah, refactoring strikes again!

It's only lying if you ever admit it.

It's a good exercise in critical thinking. Our teenager keeps on trying to get us to say Santa isn't real. Not going to happen.

I read this from the BBC and it calmed me down a bit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60559574

I have been running a small site at a slight loss for the past 15 years.

After spending a day in meetings dealing with architecture astronauts poking holes and questioning the quality of my work, it's nice to have positive real world feedback.

I'm not sure if I'm dyslexic, but I do have a horrible time reading. The hardest thing is reading stuff I have written. I just get anxious, and find it tiring. I would often check in some very embarrassing typos.

The best trick I have found is having my work, and code read back to me using text to speech software.

Reading along as the computer speaks helps me to find spelling and grammar mistakes.

I didn't see any measurements in the article.

What is the warming rate? Why wasn't it included?

I feel that nuclear weapons have made modern global war impossible. Because the powerful would not be able to escape the effects of such a conflict.

So for the first time we must now work out our differences without war. This can't be a bad thing.

I think the only fix for this is to make it illegal for companies to list educational requirements in job postings.

Search for any entry level job in an office environment, how many list a college degree as a requirement? Anywhere north of 80% sends a message (Get a college degree or work for minimum wage).

My mistake it is mentioned. Apologies.

I just don't understand these articles. The office isn't going anywhere. Don't worry, if you want to work in an office that option is not going away.

Working in the same physical space as management will aways have an edge on remote workers. That's why it won't be going anywhere.

I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for many of us this is a once in a lifetime chance to establish working for home as a completely viable, respected choice. I don't want to move up, I just want to do my job in peace.

Sure, if the user has proper permissions.

But when you are a small app running on a corporate citrix, APP-V, or whatever locked-down environment you are out of luck.

You will be able to update the app running inside electron without much of an issue. But you won't be able to download and execute a new exe.