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Fiction author. It's completely different from being a CTO but I've got dreams of sitting by a lake in Italy with a herd of dogs and a typewriter.
YES
One that pays off my student loans.
A job at a company with a strong remote-first philosophy that recognizes:
That well-rounded developers
>10x ninja developers.That having a life outside of work makes for more productive workers.
That having a diverse team from a variety of backgrounds and dispositions
>having "cultural fit".That sounds like a mighty nice place to work. I'm ready to sign up!
Also, on the 10x devs: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never...
Waiting to find it first 😉
I was inspired to look up the job description of being a ninja:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja
Interestingly, western culture glamorizes the hell out of ninjas but it seems like they had a pretty sleezy rep at the time:
This dev ninja culture had started from php as far as I remember. Such methods and reputation are quite normal for php 😂
Yup, sounds just like the type of toxic work culture I'd like to avoid... 😉
The elephant's always had a pretty suspicious look if you ask me.
I don't think I would ever apply to a company looking for ninjas, gurus or "brilliant" devs. I can't imagine working with people that really thought that about themselves.
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Housewife.
I love cooking and I always feel very accomplished after cleaning. I would love to create a beautiful and supportive household for my family so my children and husband can succeed in whatever they want to do.
In my free time I'd read, write music, and even code!
BTDT and - much to my shock - HATED it.
With all the current talk about increasing gender diversity in tech, I still haven't heard much talk about how incredibly hard is to jump in and out of software development. I took 8 years off. I did lots of freelance and pro bono coding during that time and it was still a very hard hill to climb to come back.
On a totally unrelated subject, I have seen GG Allin in concert, though sadly not the time he famously pooped on stage. Punk legend.
Makes total sense. This was more of a "in a perfect world" scenario. Hopefully, in the future, I can manage to find a balance between software development and raising children.
And high five to a fellow gg allin fan! Too bad no poop was thrown, but that's awesome you got to see him in concert. Hope he still put on a memorable show!
Music producer. I want to compose music for video games, and learn to code them for fun
I think I'm doing it. I'm making a thing I care about. That's always been a big part of my life. I'm having an impact in things I care about, but not pretending to "make the world a better place" in a platitude sense.
And I'm learning all the time.
In my ideal world I have fewer nagging tasks that pull me away from the thing I really want to do at the moment, but I feel free to strive for that situation. I don't think I'd want the version of my life where I automatically get everything I want.
Radical sports guide. It's is very crazy heheheehe
I want to teach! Something in the neighborhood of calculus, physics, mechanics, Computer-Aided Design, mechanical design, or -- last but not least -- programming. :)
Right now I'm just working a few odd tutoring jobs here or there, but I'm keeping an eye out for an opportunity to teach in a more classroomy setting, either high-school or college.
Being in a position where I can move to a French-speaking and immerse myself in the language. I don't know what french country yet maybe French Guiana, France, Togo, or Belgium.
Game developer - it's been my dream job since I was 5 or 6, shortly after we got an NES.
As a web developer, I'm closer to it now (especially after being a dental tech for 15 years), but not quite there yet. I've dabbled in game dev, but haven't seriously looked for a job in it - not sure what the market really looks like for remote HTML5/JS game devs. Currently learning Unity, but the remote question still comes into play.
Given that last paragraph, I should qualify it as "remote game dev."
Remote is a big thing for me, too. I almost moved to New York 3 years ago for the company I worked for (remotely), but then that company went under. Glad I didn't move. Also decided then that I wouldn't move for a job - something that isn't guaranteed which could jeopardize my family's well-being.
I really love the intersection of code, art, and social justice. If I could do teaching in the future that joins those things well I would be in heaven.
More realistically, I would love to do developer advocacy/evangelism. I really like doing speaking and blogging. I also love building small projects that show a tool off!
code + art + social justice.
take my money already :D!
exactly this
3rd shift mattress tester.
I think I would really enjoy being a developer advocate for a company, if it was a product I believed in.
Or maybe a position where I help large non-tech companies run their IT using modern methods. A lot of companies in sectors like finance have sluggish IT with codebases from deprecated technologies, and outdated methodologies because the top players at the company are in a slower business, and as a result their IT department fails to keep up with the best practices and standards that pure tech companies strive to adopt.
I once had a job where I got to sleep on piles of Persian rugs. Admittedly I wasn't supposed to do this, but if I positioned the security cameras just so, it worked out nicely. Most expensive bed ever.
Working with a technology that goes beyond helping a single company. Feeling like I'm part of something greater than myself and I am using my knowledge to empower people. I want to feel like I'm a participant in something like that. This is one of the reasons why I started to learn about blockchain. I believe it will have the potential to change our societies for the better, and I want to be a part of it.
developing software for the anime industry.
I'm totally on-board
I would love to be a photographer that is sent around to world to photograph animals.
But fortunately I love my job as a web developer, which I get to do from home