New code is easy

[d08]

Not in Europe, not.

Plenty of countries in Europe have a desperation for coders, pay is great. Not long ago a Skype employee who seemingly wasn't even crucial to the company was buying a 600k EUR house.

 

[monet]

After 30 years in engineering I've known many coders and engineers and none of them has ever liked somebody else's code!

So true!

Not so different from traders.

 

[fan27]

After 30 years in engineering I've known many coders and engineers and none of them has ever liked somebody else's code!

Shoot man, I can't even stand the site of the code I wrote a year ago.

 

[Big AAPL]

One mans code is another mans treasure...

Or garbage

 

[themickey]

Shoot man, I can't even stand the site of the code I wrote a year ago.

Code is like tattoos on women, is it the tatto you like or the woman?
After a while of bedding it down you decide it's neither.

 

[fan27]

Code is like tattoos on women, is it the tatto you like or the woman?
After a while you decide it's neither.

Man...that is deep.

 

[themickey]

Coding like women, you cant live with it and you can't live without it.
No way I could trade without playing around with it, every trading decision I make is around code.

 

[GRULSTMRNN]

What's your annualized asking?

I'm fucking sick of cleaning the crap after imbeciles but there's no other choice in sight unless I win a lottery ticket, which I play heavily (in a figurative sense), as in to increase my chances from zero to doubling them compared to just passively buying a ticket. That is from 0.1% to 0.2%, extremely well! (NOT, but what other choice do I have?)

My company's life and death now depends on "senior software developers" with 2 years of experience who already left the premises. I'm talking hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars in company worth. I could tell you more but then I would say too much.

Guy I work with and previously employed in Western Europe in finance, they had about $25Million of capital, all junior guys who at the same time were learning the domain and plain programming. Didn't do Jack Squat, were all fired and now company is hiring another round of greenhorns. My guy with =~ 10 years of experience and me with =~ 20 are entirely unemployable in the front office of The Man, be it finance or whatever other crap.

Only option is making it on our own and if / when we make it, make it big. Fuck Google, that is.

 

[Turveyd]

30 years in the coding industry mostly self employeed, with networking, hardware and training and doing lean reviews and putting software in place for, I've had enough shut shop and on operation make it as a day trader.

Too many IT Geeks trying to get out via trading I fear

 

[R1234]

Coding is a young man's game. If you're over 40 and have not graduated into management then you will likely be pushed out. Over 50 you are pretty much guaranteed to be put out to pasture. Best start think about self-employment ideas.