Okay guys. Here it is. The truth: I am. An Enterprise SHAREPOINT developer. I make close to $80,000 a year while most of my friends with university degrees ( of which I have none ) make less than half and work at web shops and small startups.
SharePoint and .NET are not my passion. My passions are Python, SICP, Ruby, Javascript, and UNIX. My boss threatened to fire me because I'm letting down my team since how can I create business value if I show up at 10am and wear jeans everyday? ( true, story ) I don't want to work in .NET, but the money is so good. SO GOOD.
My experience with freelancing (web dev and design) has been terrible. People refuse and dispute services rendered and jew me on rate, yet I incorporate their every whim into my designs and applications. ;;T_T
Is it possible to make GOOD money AND follow my passions? Or should I just learn to shut off my emotions and cope?
P.S. I am. Canadian. ; _ ;
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Anonymous2012-12-11 3:59
canadian
ya fucked up there, jean-claude
move to SF
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Anonymous2012-12-11 4:04
Learn to shut off your emotions and cope and learn to be part of the team. Earn the money and learn how to invest that money to earn a passive income.
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Anonymous2012-12-11 4:24
Get 1.5M$, invest it in a diverse portfolio that gains 5.4%, and live off the capital gains.
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Anonymous2012-12-11 4:36
People refuse and dispute services rendered and jew me on rate, yet I incorporate their every whim into my designs and applications. ;;T_T
that might be the problem. confidently give them high prices and give them the runaround a little bit when they want extra features so they know you're not a fucking slave.
>>1
1) You can do what >>6,7 said.
2) >>4 said. (I recommend this one), and then move to something else. Since we all know \prog/ is better as a hobby, than a job (Extra not dependency)
3)Go into embedded shit, where portable devices are being sold at the billions now. And move to the correct devel. tools: ANSI C, SICP, *nix.
Above all, it is your choice to make the world, or keep making parasitic gains of money. Heck what do I know, I make all the FCC decrypt tools, I am the most parasitic of them all.
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Anonymous2012-12-11 16:09
>>1
not that's enterprise scale problem >>7 choice to make the world, or keep making parasitic gains of money.
i'd invent some kind of new currency and get both
How can you place SICP into the same list as the anticudder python, ruby, javashit and unix‽ Heathen, blasphemer, begone
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Anonymous2012-12-11 17:05
>>6
Seriously, if you just let the client change shit in the middle of a contract, you are only putting yourself at a liability. They'll tell you to change something that takes centuries to implement, then decide that they don't like it and refuse to pay for it because it wasn't in the contract. If you don't make them sign their fucking name on the dotted line saying that they are willing to pay for the changes, then don't even bother working.
This isn't just in programming either. Never, ever do that.