I know you have a poor grasp of English and an even poorer grasp of logic... but you DO realize that you just answered that you make up bullshit on Slashdot?
" You really need to find a different hobby."
Why "a"? I have enough money to have several hobbies; I don't live at a subsistence level.
"Preferably on in the Real World."
By using capital letters, did you mean:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A TV show? Again you seem to be implying that you are living a fantasy. Either that, or your poor grasp of English shows again!
This is an example of the bullshit that needs to stop.
If you don't do the same, then you'll be replaced - and you were.
No, I resigned. After I got my certifications (A+/Network+/MCP) and graduated with my A.S. degree in computer programming, I went into IT Support. That was the last time I ever had to work more than 40 hours per week for a single employer because my employment contracts prohibited me from working overtime. I made more money in IT Support in 40 hours than I did as a video game tester in 60 hours.
[...] but don't pretend that it was a good career decision, or led to a happy and successful IT career - it demonstrably has not.
I don't have a problem with my IT Support career. If you stop bitching about it, everyone else will be better off.
You "worked" 60 hours per week, and probably spent 20 hours of that spamming affiliate links on web forums.
When I was a video game tester for three years, I was taking care of roommate who was dying from ALS disease. When I was a lead video game tester for three years, I was working 60 hours, taking two classes at night and teaching Sunday school.
Thanks for sharing, creimer. Your story is a true cautionary tale.
Thanks for being a troll, wanker. Your contribution to Slashdot is priceless.
What do you consider the market rate? I see some as low as 1550 on apartments.com, which interestingly enough had a 1 bedroom in the 700 range, so seems like a scam.
A rough rule of thumb is $1,500 for studio or one bedroom, and $1,000 for each additional bedroom. There are pockets of cheap housing throughout San Jose. The neighborhoods just might be rougher, off the beaten track and less desirable to young hipsters.
To remind you once again, for what you do that's pathetic pay even in the Midwest.
I'll remind you again... I'm working on a national project where 1,000+ people are getting paid $50K+ per year for the same job. Those who live out in the hills are making out like bandits. Those in the cities have to do a lot less with the same pay. On the bright side, I live in Silicon Valley and not San Francisco, New York City or Washington, D.C. Despite my
"pathetic" pay, all my bills get paid every month.
You forgot the "big kids and big wife" part of your rant, or have you finally phased that part out?
Thanks for reminding me. Big wives and big kids are expensive in Silicon Valley. Trade them in for smaller models.
[...] you'd probably be paying 4 or 5 times the price for your apartment every month.
I'm paying $200 per month less than market rate for renting a "luxury" apartment. Since my apartment complex was built before 1979, rent increases are limited to 5% per year.
Twitter is probably one of the best examples, and at one point was valued more then General Motors.
Twitter is probably the most appalling example of an idea born by accident, took off while the founders squabble over the CEO position, and investors threw cash at it when it had no revenue model for years. Read all about it in "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton.
So many people want to break into the "exciting world" of game development that they'll sacrifice their personal health for it and work as many 120 hour work weeks as their employers tell them to.
I was a professional video game tester for six years. I never worked more than 60 hours per week. The only tester I knew who consistently worked 120 hours a week was a guy worked six months as a tester and took 24 units at college for six months. That's an insane way to work through school.
$55K in SV? And being able to afford to live there? There's more to your story - if true - than you're letting on.
You must be new around here. I live alone in a rent-controlled studio apartment in San Jose for 12 years. I take the express bus to work in Palo Alto. I typically put away 20% of my income into savings by living a modest lifestyle.
There are many people in Silicon Valley who live here and make minimum wage. I make $55K+ per year and lived here all my life. The people who are complaining about not making it on $150K per year are the same people who think they're entitled to a new home, the latest cars and all the tech toys that money can buy.
Although this is good news for people looking for work in the cities, Amazon is also closing warehouses in rural communities that are turning into the new inner cities that are lacking in jobs.
Starting in the late 1990s, Amazon.com Inc. began opening fulfillment centers in sparsely populated states to help customers avoid sales taxes. One of those centers, established in 1999, brought hundreds of jobs to Coffeyville, Kan. -- population 9,500. Yet as two-day shipping became a priority, Amazon shifted its warehousing strategy to be closer to cities where its customers were concentrated, and shut the Coffeyville center in 2015.
Good point on the ads there was a recent article showing Proctor&Gamble is pulling 100 million in spending on Digital ads since there was ether no proof or they confirmed it didn't do anything for sales.
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." — John Wanamaker
I recommend reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author helped merged Facebook's user data ("browsing history") with third-party demographic data to create targeted advertising. Facebook probably knows more about you personally than you do.
Because it amuses me to correct your obvious idiocy, creimer.
Are you replying to me or the AC who posted the comment? If you're replying to me, you're replying to the wrong comment.
You see, I can (and do) walk away from Slashdot any time I want, and enjoy my life.
If you bother to look at my comment history over the weekend, you will notice that I was largely absent from Slashdot. I was too busy enjoying my life.
You can't do that, creimer, because if you do, you can't even afford a fucking cup of coffee.
I buy a large skinny vanilla latte when I'm at my day job that pays the bills. That's $3.65 per day for five days a week. The coffee is paid for by my paycheck from the day job that pays the bills. What part of "day job that pays the bills" don't you understand?
You're stuck in this vicious cycle of being a punching bag, and you're too goddamned stupid to realize that you're being paid sub-minimum wage to have abuse heaped on you online.
Slashdot is one revenue stream among many. Most of my revenue streams don't require my direct attention and I still get paid if pay zero attention to them.
You'd be better off getting a part time second job for minimum wage at McDonald's, but you're too askance to do the math and realize that.
I should take a minimum wage job that pays less than what I make as an entrepreneur from my side business? That's stupid.
Then again, that you're replying to the wrong comment indicates that you're pretty stupid.
No wonder you were "unemployable" - people probably started noticing the places you spent all your time on the internet, and realized that you weren't getting a bit of work done.
While responding to another comment and then reading your comment, my supervisor was poking and prodding a workstation that I needed help on and I provided diagnostic information in IM when she requests it. It's called multitasking.
As for why I'll continue to comment - I do it while waiting for my rspec unit & acceptance tests to run, and also while waiting for vagrant & puppet to provision a host locally for whichever application I'm currently working on automating the deployment of. This leaves me with a couple stretches of 15-20 minutes through the day that I'm left waiting for my test results. This can be used for coffee breaks, browsing the news, or coming here to Slashdot, where occasionally I'll run across one of your idiotic posts and respond because it amuses me to.
After you're done you will take the bus back to your one room studio filled with Japanimation, while we will drive our nice cars back to our houses with wives and kids.
This isn't the 1950's. Not everyone is going to live the same cookie cutter lifestyle. If you haven't noticed, society is changing.
We comment on Slashdot to pass spare time [...]
Which is what I do as well, mostly at work in between tasks.
[...] while you do it as a business, only the business earns you about $2/day [...]
It's called having confidence in yourself. I've been beaten down so many times in life that I have nowhere to go but up. This daily shit storm on Slashdot is nothing. After I'm done commenting for the day, you and your fellow trolls will continue to comment, make up shit and give each other butt pats. Why? Because you have nothing better to do with your life.
That's funny. You haven't prevented me from posting on Slashdot. You haven't prevented me from making money on Slashdot. You haven't prevented me from submitting stories under my alias on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
I know you have a poor grasp of English and an even poorer grasp of logic... but you DO realize that you just answered that you make up bullshit on Slashdot? " You really need to find a different hobby." Why "a"? I have enough money to have several hobbies; I don't live at a subsistence level. "Preferably on in the Real World." By using capital letters, did you mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A TV show? Again you seem to be implying that you are living a fantasy. Either that, or your poor grasp of English shows again!
This is an example of the bullshit that needs to stop.
What we have a problem with is your denial of reality.
All the made up bullshit on Slashdot? You really need to find a different hobby. Preferably on in the Real World.
If you don't do the same, then you'll be replaced - and you were.
No, I resigned. After I got my certifications (A+/Network+/MCP) and graduated with my A.S. degree in computer programming, I went into IT Support. That was the last time I ever had to work more than 40 hours per week for a single employer because my employment contracts prohibited me from working overtime. I made more money in IT Support in 40 hours than I did as a video game tester in 60 hours.
[...] but don't pretend that it was a good career decision, or led to a happy and successful IT career - it demonstrably has not.
I don't have a problem with my IT Support career. If you stop bitching about it, everyone else will be better off.
You "worked" 60 hours per week, and probably spent 20 hours of that spamming affiliate links on web forums.
When I was a video game tester for three years, I was taking care of roommate who was dying from ALS disease. When I was a lead video game tester for three years, I was working 60 hours, taking two classes at night and teaching Sunday school.
Thanks for sharing, creimer. Your story is a true cautionary tale.
Thanks for being a troll, wanker. Your contribution to Slashdot is priceless.
What do you consider the market rate? I see some as low as 1550 on apartments.com, which interestingly enough had a 1 bedroom in the 700 range, so seems like a scam.
A rough rule of thumb is $1,500 for studio or one bedroom, and $1,000 for each additional bedroom. There are pockets of cheap housing throughout San Jose. The neighborhoods just might be rougher, off the beaten track and less desirable to young hipsters.
To remind you once again, for what you do that's pathetic pay even in the Midwest.
I'll remind you again... I'm working on a national project where 1,000+ people are getting paid $50K+ per year for the same job. Those who live out in the hills are making out like bandits. Those in the cities have to do a lot less with the same pay. On the bright side, I live in Silicon Valley and not San Francisco, New York City or Washington, D.C. Despite my "pathetic" pay, all my bills get paid every month.
You forgot the "big kids and big wife" part of your rant, or have you finally phased that part out?
Thanks for reminding me. Big wives and big kids are expensive in Silicon Valley. Trade them in for smaller models.
[...] you'd probably be paying 4 or 5 times the price for your apartment every month.
I'm paying $200 per month less than market rate for renting a "luxury" apartment. Since my apartment complex was built before 1979, rent increases are limited to 5% per year.
Twitter is probably one of the best examples, and at one point was valued more then General Motors.
Twitter is probably the most appalling example of an idea born by accident, took off while the founders squabble over the CEO position, and investors threw cash at it when it had no revenue model for years. Read all about it in "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton.
So many people want to break into the "exciting world" of game development that they'll sacrifice their personal health for it and work as many 120 hour work weeks as their employers tell them to.
I was a professional video game tester for six years. I never worked more than 60 hours per week. The only tester I knew who consistently worked 120 hours a week was a guy worked six months as a tester and took 24 units at college for six months. That's an insane way to work through school.
$55K in SV? And being able to afford to live there? There's more to your story - if true - than you're letting on.
You must be new around here. I live alone in a rent-controlled studio apartment in San Jose for 12 years. I take the express bus to work in Palo Alto. I typically put away 20% of my income into savings by living a modest lifestyle.
There is no Home Depot in your neighborhood where the day laborers hang out in the morning to get work?
There are many people in Silicon Valley who live here and make minimum wage. I make $55K+ per year and lived here all my life. The people who are complaining about not making it on $150K per year are the same people who think they're entitled to a new home, the latest cars and all the tech toys that money can buy.
Although this is good news for people looking for work in the cities, Amazon is also closing warehouses in rural communities that are turning into the new inner cities that are lacking in jobs.
Starting in the late 1990s, Amazon.com Inc. began opening fulfillment centers in sparsely populated states to help customers avoid sales taxes. One of those centers, established in 1999, brought hundreds of jobs to Coffeyville, Kan. -- population 9,500. Yet as two-day shipping became a priority, Amazon shifted its warehousing strategy to be closer to cities where its customers were concentrated, and shut the Coffeyville center in 2015.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/26/rural-america-is-new-inner-city-2.html
Good point on the ads there was a recent article showing Proctor&Gamble is pulling 100 million in spending on Digital ads since there was ether no proof or they confirmed it didn't do anything for sales.
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." — John Wanamaker
I recommend reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author helped merged Facebook's user data ("browsing history") with third-party demographic data to create targeted advertising. Facebook probably knows more about you personally than you do.
Because it amuses me to correct your obvious idiocy, creimer.
Are you replying to me or the AC who posted the comment? If you're replying to me, you're replying to the wrong comment.
You see, I can (and do) walk away from Slashdot any time I want, and enjoy my life.
If you bother to look at my comment history over the weekend, you will notice that I was largely absent from Slashdot. I was too busy enjoying my life.
You can't do that, creimer, because if you do, you can't even afford a fucking cup of coffee.
I buy a large skinny vanilla latte when I'm at my day job that pays the bills. That's $3.65 per day for five days a week. The coffee is paid for by my paycheck from the day job that pays the bills. What part of "day job that pays the bills" don't you understand?
You're stuck in this vicious cycle of being a punching bag, and you're too goddamned stupid to realize that you're being paid sub-minimum wage to have abuse heaped on you online.
Slashdot is one revenue stream among many. Most of my revenue streams don't require my direct attention and I still get paid if pay zero attention to them.
You'd be better off getting a part time second job for minimum wage at McDonald's, but you're too askance to do the math and realize that.
I should take a minimum wage job that pays less than what I make as an entrepreneur from my side business? That's stupid.
Then again, that you're replying to the wrong comment indicates that you're pretty stupid.
Amber on black, you insensitive clod! Not all of us could afford a green monochrome monitor.
No wonder you were "unemployable" - people probably started noticing the places you spent all your time on the internet, and realized that you weren't getting a bit of work done.
While responding to another comment and then reading your comment, my supervisor was poking and prodding a workstation that I needed help on and I provided diagnostic information in IM when she requests it. It's called multitasking.
As for why I'll continue to comment - I do it while waiting for my rspec unit & acceptance tests to run, and also while waiting for vagrant & puppet to provision a host locally for whichever application I'm currently working on automating the deployment of. This leaves me with a couple stretches of 15-20 minutes through the day that I'm left waiting for my test results. This can be used for coffee breaks, browsing the news, or coming here to Slashdot, where occasionally I'll run across one of your idiotic posts and respond because it amuses me to.
I'm impressed that you know how to multitask.
After you're done you will take the bus back to your one room studio filled with Japanimation, while we will drive our nice cars back to our houses with wives and kids.
This isn't the 1950's. Not everyone is going to live the same cookie cutter lifestyle. If you haven't noticed, society is changing.
We comment on Slashdot to pass spare time [...]
Which is what I do as well, mostly at work in between tasks.
[...] while you do it as a business, only the business earns you about $2/day [...]
One revenue stream does not make a business.
[...] and mostly involves being insulted.
Stop insulting me.
Yes, you're a real "winner", Chris.
It's called having confidence in yourself. I've been beaten down so many times in life that I have nowhere to go but up. This daily shit storm on Slashdot is nothing. After I'm done commenting for the day, you and your fellow trolls will continue to comment, make up shit and give each other butt pats. Why? Because you have nothing better to do with your life.
And how many hours did you spend spamming Slashdot on Monday?
I spend 15 minutes per day or eight hours per month. Keep mind that I read Slashdot every day.
You spend hours doing it, too - so your hourly rate is STILL below minimum wage.
Only on Slashdot is $20+ per hour considered below minimum wage.
That's how we know we won, creimer.
That's funny. You haven't prevented me from posting on Slashdot. You haven't prevented me from making money on Slashdot. You haven't prevented me from submitting stories under my alias on Slashdot.
Yeah, it's more Trumpian firehose of bullshit from the author of a "book" called Unemployable .... about his unemployable fat ass.
"Unemployable: Haiku & Other Poems" is available for pre-order at Apple iBooks, Kobo and Barnes & Noble's Nook. Publication date is 10/1/2017 and will be available at other retailers.
Chris, seek medical attention, that tiny brain of yours spins around so fast it might drill its way out of that thick skull of yours!
Thank you for promoting my links!
So there was no joke. And your "WOOSH" was nonsensical idiocy designed to distract from the fact that my point made you feel bad about yourself.
ROFL
Mmm... 15 mod points today, too! Can't wait to spend 'em!
So what? My karma has been excellent for years.
Yours appears to be, "I'm a dumb mong who can't write in my own primary language," which is a pathetic excuse, really.
Your insult is a pathetic. What are, 14? Oh, wait. Never mind.