Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41447752

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I am not a financial professional but rely on one to guide me.

Later in the article they begin to talk about overall net worth including regular savings and investments and the numbers are better but could still be problematic:

>> In terms of the average retiree’s net worth, the Federal Reserve data puts it at approximately $1.2 million for those aged 65 to 74. The average net worth drops to $958,000 for those aged 75 and older.

Do you like building software? Based on your post I get a feeling (which may be wrong) you’re looking for the $$.

If you like it, stay with it and keep studying. It will pay off.

(Edit: my experience) I left college and started out writing COBOL. Several dot com busts later and I was lucky enough to lead several SaaS teams and have wonderful exits.

I would encourage you to put together a story that illustrates the pain being caused by this software and get with the purchasers. Not only might it help your organization figure out they need to do something different it could also show off your skills to the orgainization.

Could you collect the time you and other people are spending working on these problems? How many issues are reported to you? How many bugs you've filed and have not had fixed by the vendor? Rolling this up into a real dollar coast it's having on you and the school district users.

Recently retired engineering manager here. Manager I all the way to VP of Engineering at several successful startups and a few big companies.

I was continually surprised that fresh and new challenges continually appeared, until I got wise enough to know there will always be something you not run into before.

Be wary of anyone who think’s they’ve seen it all.

Edit typo while on my trainer. Lol

Because of our (over 40s) years of watching bad policy after bad policy destroying our work places, and speaking up.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39229312

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I suspect with Netflix’s recent crackdown on sharing, this will get much more common and their recent gains in membership will reverse.

They just don’t have that much good stuff coming out, nor do many of the services.

Currently really enjoying Hulu on their 1.00/month plan from Black Friday. Many many shows and movies we’d not seen.

But I believe you are correct in that reducing requirements for car seats could increase the number of kids people have.

(I was not allowed to reply to your post)

I picture a construction company counting the total inches / centimeters each employee measured every day. Then at the end of the year firing the bottom 20% of employees measured in total units measured in the last 12 months.

Not only do we uncover bugs, it’s a great way to get the whole company learning about the new things coming and for the product team to get unfiltered feed back.

The claims processing system I worked on used a number system that would only go to 4 digits, it would roll over to 0 if we ever processed more than 9999 claims overnight.

Our VP would not listen to us when we said we needed to change that. He said "Claims process fine every night! There is no problem." I had left before they got to that 10,000th claim (thankfully).

That said, anyone need an old COBOL developer?

Edit: now I’m the VP of Engineering. We do work on tech debt regularly.

It still hurts a little every time I think about it. I really liked that product.