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THIS!

Tenure isn't worth zero, but it's not a "guarantee for greater responsibility and compensation".

> If you told management, you're using the position and any promotion as a jumping off area for a newer better job at a different company, how happy would management be?

Not happy, and why would they? Flip it around, how happy would you be if you knew they were out there shopping around for your replacement? Only keeping you so long as they didn't find someone better?

I am probably an outlier here, but I stalked my neighborhood and pounced on a house that was WAY on the low end for the area thus in my budget and literally has lowest prop taxes.

My ONLY point being, my family wanted a house sooner, but we waited, and waited, and waited it out to find one that met our financial needs in the area we wanted.

IF you do that (knowing it the stars may not line up) it's incredibly helpful.

THIS!

I have two kids, and it's fairly easy (at least before starting school / sports)

1 - Second hands clothes, toys, etc are super cheap 1.1 - Hand me down across the extended family and your family (seriously, they grow out of it in minutes, try not to buy it new) 2 - Your kids don't need a lot of toys and crayons and paper are cheap 3 - GO TO THE LIBRARY 4 - Parks are really fun, and really cheap, as in free

Where it adds up, at least for me, is I now have a 2 & 4 year old in school and that's $1K a month (drops to zero once they hit public schools), but for a few years that's hefty. However, that's also a choice

1 - I chose private school for preschool, so that's costlier 2 - I moved to a specific area for the 10/10 public schools to save money

This must be an old wives tale. I live in Chicago and a trading form on the floor beneath us went bankrupt, in roughly the same time, with a similar "repurposed bit" story.

Maybe it's the same one .....

I personally would not want that visual clutter added. Maybe a simple and non-obtrusive indicator that upon being tapped, navigates me to a page with additional details (stars,comments, etc).

I just don't want the "Vegas Strip" of info cluttering up my messages.

I guess I'm the exception in that I spent a few years in Smalltalk in the mid 2000's and thus never viewed it as irrelevant.

Sure, not used by the, "cool kids" in SF, but still used.

Got my money simply for using setec astronomy :)

I also mentor at Mobile Makers and they do a great job of getting the right people into the program and the program itself is great!

I have, four total from DevBootcamp in Chicago across two companies. You have to be critical and fight the right people, but all four have proven to be amazing additions to the team and wise beyond their years.

Is this a marijuana joke?

Why would I care about this cover letter? It wouldn't influence my view of the person in any way .....

I had a mobile app developer position ... a candidate sent me a TestFlight invite to an app they built that was a pseudo resume in app that fit the general context of our business .... was really neat.

THAT was topical, innovative, and got my attention AND DEMONSTRATED THE SKILLS I WOULD ULTIMATELY NEED THEM TO USE DAY-TO-DAY.

I fear we are telling people do these "creative" things when all they are going to do is waste time/effort and get bitter.

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Yes I have an INC or LLC for my consulting or independent contractor work, but that's like being in a garage band these days.

I work in a rapid growing startup that requires more than 8 hours a day and I have two young children. My priorities are 1 - Children 2 - Marriage 3 - Living arrangements / lifestyle (sans work) 4 - Career (but I take my career VERY seriously, I've been an executive for 9 years and I'm 33) My routine 1 - Alarm goes off at 4:30 am 2 - I pickup around the house, toss in laundry as needed 3 - Catch the 5:45 am train to be into the office roughly @ 6:15 am 4 - I leave the office @ 5:30 pm to catch the 5:50 pm train to be home roughly @ 6:15 pm 5 - I play with the kids 6 - We then eat dinner together as a family 7 - I bathe and put both kids to bed around 7:30 - 8:00 pm 8 - I help pick up the rest of my house with my wife, it usually ends @ 8:30 pm (we talk a lot while doing this) 9 - My wife and I sit down on the couch/porch/etc and hang out for a few hours while I also work 10 - I'm usually in bed by 11 - 11:30 pm If I have more work to do that evening I might have my laptop out while hanging out with my wife or stay up later. This is usually 4 nights out of the week. Things that shift to "once in a while" given my priorities 1 - A full 8 hours of sleep 2 - Seeing that television show 3 - Seeing that movie 4 - Random nights out with friends 5 - Etc These simply just take a back seat. Things I never miss, and spend as much time with as someone working a standard 9-5 (although I do head into the office earlier than most) 1 - My kids (first and foremost) 2 - My wife 3 - My house 4 - My career and type of company I appreciate being involved with To me, I keep the things that matter most and give up things that I found out I didn't really need (for context, I never really watched a lot of television). This schedule works for me and I end up working 10 hours a day and never miss a beat with my kids. PS. I also about twice a day, for 5 minutes, FaceTime with my wife/kids while at work. It's a nice break and a chance for me to see them during the day given I miss them in the morning.

I work in a rapid growing startup that requires more than 8 hours a day and I have two young children. My priorities are

1 - Children 2 - Marriage 3 - Living arrangements / lifestyle (sans work) 4 - Career (but I take my career VERY seriously, I've been an executive for 9 years and I'm 33)

My routine

1 - Alarm goes off at 4:30 am 2 - I pickup around the house, toss in laundry as needed 3 - Catch the 5:45 am train to be into the office roughly @ 6:15 am 4 - I leave the office @ 5:30 pm to catch the 5:50 pm train to be home roughly @ 6:15 pm 5 - I play with the kids 6 - We then eat dinner together as a family 7 - I bathe and put both kids to bed around 7:30 - 8:00 pm 8 - I help pick up the rest of my house with my wife, it usually ends @ 8:30 pm (we talk a lot while doing this) 9 - My wife and I sit down on the couch/porch/etc and hang out for a few hours while I also work 10 - I'm usually in bed by 11 - 11:30 pm

If I have more work to do that evening I might have my laptop out while hanging out with my wife or stay up later. This is usually 4 nights out of the week.

Things that shift to "once in a while" given my priorities

1 - A full 8 hours of sleep 2 - Seeing that television show 3 - Seeing that movie 4 - Random nights out with friends 5 - Etc

These simply just take a back seat.

Things I never miss, and spend as much time with as someone working a standard 9-5 (although I do head into the office earlier than most)

1 - My kids (first and foremost) 2 - My wife 3 - My house 4 - My career and type of company I appreciate being involved with

To me, I keep the things that matter most and give up things that I found out I didn't really need (for context, I never really watched a lot of television).

This schedule works for me and I end up working 10 hours a day and never miss a beat with my kids.

PS. I also about twice a day, for 5 minutes, FaceTime with my wife/kids while at work. It's a nice break and a chance for me to see them during the day given I miss them in the morning.

What the hell do you do?

Why should he have to remove the "scare quotes" because he happens to be a friend of yours.

back button behavior is atrocious ....

That last part. It's why I can't work at home. It's INCREDIBLY difficult for me to ignore my children when in close proximity.

To be clear, what he did wasn't wrong either. You have a different opinion, and society as a whole is shifting to a different opinion, but that doesn't make his actions wrong.

Jim Crow and freedom of speech are two different things.

I personally am ALL FOR equality independent of race, religion, or sexual orientation. I don't care what you do with your life.

I do believe people should be equal, and laws against that should be abolished, but that's my opinion. That's why we have voting and elected officials.

More importantly, democracy is also about being allowed to place dollars and votes in what YOU believe in independent of the current "accepted norms". It's not WRONG for someone to vote against equality, that's their right .... at least in this country.

Becoming a CEO doesn't mean you are no longer a person. More importantly, it doesn't mean the company comes before you as a person.

I'm not saying that in todays environment, at least within the US that is the case. I'm just saying it should be the case.

Freedom of speech swings all ways.

Ugh ... the prose and overall writing style .... not for me.

Really?

I've been stuck with many piles of resumes and to have this show up would not only be a breath of fresh air vs the prototypical format, I GUARANTEE I would be talking about this one.

Even if I didn't hire the person, I would be showing people this resume around the office.

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REAMDE

I've attended almost every hiring day at DevBootcamp Chicago and I almost always ignore the actual "product" the teams build

As we are there to hire entry level Rails devs from this program I tend to listen for and ask questions around

1 - The technical challenges they faced

2 - How did they solve the technical challenges

3 - What weren't they able to solve some of them and why

4 - What open source technologies and platforms did they embrace, and why

5 - How did they work together to build the software

6 - What testing (if any) did they do, and why?

I'm actually not a fan of the "hackathon" format for presenting the graduating class.

IMO

Who's the guying posing in the photo's? He looks miserable.

Different strokes. Owning that stuff would add way more overhead and stress for me. Different folks.

Where? Is it for some sort of "premium" access? Otherwise, that's what tax dollars go towards.

Pinstagram?!?