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Quant jobs shouldn't even be considered tech jobs. They are more like mathematicians, with a side of wizard.

Useless in any discussion about the tech industry as they are an extreme outlier

$120-175/hr CAD for me, specializing in on prem infrastructure and DBA, clients coast to coast but mostly Ontario. The rate is more determined if I am going through a middleman (usually a MSP) vs direct rather then supply and demand.

This hasn't changed through inflation though. Those rates are the same rates for the last 10 years or so.

The true end game always has been being an overseer of the technology. Sysadmins and sysops are one area that will never go away as there will always be another system to manage. It doesn't matter if that system is human, computer, or both.

I wonder how much real estate Oracle owns compared to the others?

As a hiring manager I'd be curious what was wrong with you to work there in the first place

Not from the US, but maybe Madison WI?

I believe it is one of the greenest cities in the US, I used to know a few people from there that I'd connect with over the years at business conferences, and they absolutely loved it there.

Are you on mobile? I have had this happen a few times now but no issues on desktop

Turns out when you fuck over the younger generation economically they don't have any money left for luxury goods. Who knew?

The constant drive for 'more'. When the field was young and smartphones exploded you could easily make money, as well as provide something of big new or unique value - even if it was just entertainment.

Now that we're long past the peak of low hanging fruit of productivity and value, we arrive at the inevitable results of late stage capitalism - extracting the most value possible out of the end user through manipulation and coercion.

It's bloat, it's enshittification, entrapment into rampant rent seeking and it's the low key subversion that has been happening for years.

You've put into words perfectly my thoughts on it all too. Sustainability, self awareness, equilibrium - these are foundations of strength and resiliency over the long term.

Technology went from empowerment to entrapment

And the prompting may be more domain / LLM specific. I currently use one that is more or less a analytics query engine and the prompts there are completely different compared to other use cases.

"I am confident those red berries you are describing are perfectly fine to eat"

All options expire, theta is intrinsic to the pricing model

The problem isn't knowing it might go down, it's knowing when it might go down, and how far.

Sociopaths don't get that feeling

That goes for so much stuff today, not just the health and wellness trends. Capitalism has created entire markets through obscurity, complexity, and exploiting human traits to make people think they need stuff they don't.

That doesn't mean anything at the C level, the 6 months isn't his choice. They almost always transition out unless there is reputational damage involved, it's written into their contracts.

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Yeah, by that definition people going to school or learning a new career that can take years of effort would all be in perpetual burnout.

I think that's way too simplistic of a definition of what causes burnout.

This is the Quebec government, it doesn't get any more grossly incompetent. The only question is what took so long

I have yet to find a paywall that has stopped me from reaching the content within a click or two of one of my browser extensions.

> My house doesn't have a static IP, so obviously the only way for me to connect to them when I'm away is through an intermediary

Dynamic DNS record services have been around almost since the beginning of the public internet, and it's not the only way to deal with a remote location that has a changing IP address.

It's far from "obviously the only way for you to connect" - you are just ignorant of your options

Like Factorio, possibly the best game ever made

That's part of what happened, but I think the reason that crony capitalism happened in the first place was the demographics changed. Companies don't "want" do to anything but exploit something to make a profit.

When ICQ was huge, it wasn't your average joe sixpack using the internet. Now that it is, there's a lot of money to be made.

I've learned to do this, it took quite a bit of time to control. I used to drive 3 hours round trip each day to and from work for years, and often used an hour or more of the trip to practice.

It's extremely calming and I have a weird side effect that when I stop, I can still hear it "in my head" - it's pretty cool actually.

Nice :) That's pretty cool of Jeph to give you the go ahead.

Also I think this is the first time i've come across some fellow QC enjoyers in the wild lol.

Manually? There's out of the box ways to automate essentially everything including new requests

I think the biggest error is mistaking comfort for happiness.

If you aren't happy in your current position you have two choices. You either choose to solve the problem and start taking steps, or you choose to be distracted from the problem.

I know the best times of my life is when I got outside of my comfort zone.

Fear is a cage. The only way out, is through.

Yeah I lost the interest awhile ago after over 25 years in the industry. I grew up with computers being my whole world well through into my 30's, started on a TI99/4a.

I'm now a independent contractor that works about 40 hours a month, but I am not enjoying it. I still really enjoying tinkering (I have an Unraid server that I spend a lot of time messing with Dockers and VM's, etc) and technology news and advancements, but the daily grind of making someone else rich is old and tired, just like how I feel haha.

I started building a new career on the side that I started as a side hustle several years ago and it's finally starting to become viable as an income replacement. I really enjoy it, I can't even call it "work", because it doesn't feel like work, it's just something I want to do. I guess it's the difference between doing something you want to do, vs doing something you feel you have to do. It pays a lot less, but has the potential for more later on. I'd be happy to do this for the rest of my life and never retire (and I should be able to manage into old age, barring anything major), so I don't worry about the money aspect much. I could likely quit the IT now, but it greases the wheels, but I will likely cut it down to only the occasional project this year.

I'm not sure i'd call it a craving (I spend a lot of time on it, but certainly not all my time), I like playing video games, other hobbies like reading and journaling, going out to dinner and walks with friends, etc.

Not sure what my advice is, but maybe consider scaling your hours back, and filling that time again with side projects. I know I certainly would not have the energy anymore to do IT full time, as well as devote my time to a side project again.