my feed is made up of rust stuff, databases, system designs, tech meetups, a few founders, OSS stuff, and some companies. even the other day, i came across a post from a dev at planetscale, ben dickens, who said he's going to livestream at a scheduled time to talk about some of the database concepts he recently read in the book DDIA. i watched it, and it was fantastic.

bottom line, i would say what everyone has to say about X, based on their personal experience, are all completely correct, because it becomes (or can become) the environment you want it to be.

That turned into trying out simple hello world programs and eventually I found it started becoming way more interesting than my current job and found a job using it.

A lot of my network often read books and attend conferences so there's that too (not my cup of tea but everyone's got their preferred outlet)

https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

if you don't want to click on the link, I've copied most of it below (his second post has a screenshot of the questions!):

"I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years.

Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust.

Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot."

As a bootcamp dev, with barely 3 yoe, I'm hitting around 10% response rate for recruiter screening (remote/hybrid positions). I put a boatload of hours honing and perfecting my resume + a few other strategies.

I think there's always a way to stand out as long as they don't follow advice/opinions from anonymous forums like HN or reddit. Lots of bad noise out on the internet.

I've probably used/gone through over 25 different hiring sites the past few months and most were awful to use or had some glaring flaw. I liked X jobs, but their filtering options are terrible. LinkedIn use to be quite nice, but now it's completed bloated with promoted jobs that you can't find a real job posting until page 5 or 6 (I never hear back from promoted positions, and often they're posted months prior so probably huge backlog).

am i understanding that correctly? you started learning/writing rust and it took 2 weeks to be MORE productive? if so, i'm just in awe at your ability to pick it up so fast.

I'm an jr dev so it's understandable that it's going to take me a lot longer but damn, i've been at it for over a half a year and I wouldn't say I'm anywhere near more comfortable/productive than my previous languages. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it. much respect.

But my personal follow feed has all the interesting topics that I follow so it's easy to just stick to that.

Honestly kind of shocked to see this type of mentality...wow.

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If it's extremely technical, I've seen 3x as a starting point and somewhere between 4x-5x in strategic positions at C-suite or similar level.

take it with a grain of salt as these are just baseline values. Everyone is going to greatly differ based on location, industry, level of expertise, $$ of value that it may impact. good luck!

If you make $xx/hr in ur full-time and you have taxes beyond simply w2 and 2 or 3 banks for checking/credit/investments, doing taxes on your own through freetaxusa or turbotax may take up an entire afternoon or whole day (unless your one to be very organized like the top poster here, respect). At some point, its worth thinking about how many hours of your time does it stop becoming worth it to do your own and hire a cpa.

For me, once forms like donations, multiple w2s, property, landlord stuff, started adding up, it'd take an entire weekend. Thats 16 hrs of my life, i eventually took the leap and found a great cpa (after wasting $$ on overpriced ones) thru a friend referral and now spend $600 on what takes me less than 2 hours to consolidate and upload forms, and double check deductible expenses.

Whatd i do with all my extra time? Binged 3 body problem. Yes, i wasted it. But a better person would spend it with friends or family or reading or anything more productive than me. If this seems to fit your mold, its worth considering.

Again, not for everyone but good to think about as life progresses for you (or anyone else here).