A net worth of 1M+ at an old age after working 16 hour days is a joke.
My uncle is 70 and still working. The $1M+ figure is just an estimate based on what people can see: the tractor, his house and his truck. No one knows how wealthy he is. It's not polite to ask. My point is that you can't tell who is really wealthy or pretending to be wealthy.
I've been on jobs where the IT department has nothing documented, either because they got everything memorized or they don't want to share knowledge to maintain job security. One time I asked about how to transition a DOS-based pharmacy program to a new computer. No one could tell me how to do it, as the last person who did left 13 years earlier. Took me weeks to talk to the vendor, work out the steps on a practice machine, and then coordinate with the IT manager to make it happen. When I wrote up the process and handed it out at a meeting, one the techs told me that I got all the steps correct. The IT manager exploded at the tech for withholding the information.
Go tell your boss how many hours you spend spamming here daily while he is paying you and see if your thoughts and opinions are correct.
I could but he wouldn't do anything about it. As a contractor, he can tell me what needs to be done but he can't tell me how to do it. Otherwise, under IRS rules, I would have to be paid like an employee. As long as I get my numbers (I'm the top three in the department), he doesn't care what I do between tasks.
A boring underpaid loser lives a really shitty life so he can save up money for when he is old and sick.
Re-read the comment. A janitor gives you stock tips at the urinal and you blow him off because you two don't share the same socioeconomic background. The paper announces his death and he leaves behind his a whole huge, you would be kicking yourself in the ass for not listening.
Or let's consider my uncle in Idaho. You look at him at him, think that he's a poor farmer, and blow him off. Except he's not a farmer. He's a tractor driver who owns a $250K tractor with computer navigation, satellite TV and air conditioning. He makes more money than the farmers do because he tills the ground from Spring through Fall, working 16 hours per day, and spends the winter fishing on the Gulf of Mexico. His net worth is $1M+.
The point being made is that with all those contacts you still have a shittier job than college interns on this site.
Which isn't a fair comparison. I never went to high school. I never got a four-year degree. The internship I did get at Fortune 500 company paid $10 per hour in 1997 when most internships went unpaid. I don't believe that Slashdot's demographics is limited to asshats with four-year degrees, overpaid internships and $200K per year salary for high-end IT jobs. I work the low-end of IT and my voice is just as important. Don't like it go read Reddit.
See the pattern?
You can't stop replying to my comments. Look for in the mirror to find your answers. The problem isn't me. The problem is YOU. On the bright side, I work for the government and I'm here to help you.:p
All those contacts... and still only making 50k in the valley.
I'm at the top of my salary range for virtual ditch diggers. That may have changed with the hipsters unwilling to drive no further than 30 minutes from San Francisco. I've seen pay rates for $30 to $45 per hour to work down south (San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara).
Amazing you didn't think to spin your narrative as, you were the only tester who thought to test the female player models, and any womyn who ever played UT2 as a female should thank you for your due diligence.
I prefer playing female characters. If a guy tries to hit up on me, I simply tell him that I'm a fat white guy, watch him go into shock, and then kill him. That routine never gets old.
did some investing when the.com bubble burst - made about 14k but it was too much work.
I turned $6K into $30K on the way down in the dot com bust. Was out of the stock market when the Great Recession hit, so I missed all the early warnings and opportunities to ride the roller coaster again. That's why I'm building up my cash reserve for the Trump recession.
[...] a failure personally and financially, by our standards on this site.
I've gained and lost money three times in my lifetime. Each time I picked up myself and started over. I'm not impressed by what passes for success on this site.
African staffing firms will be churning out IT workers by 2030. There still won't be any jobs for Americans.
The economy is full employment (take with a grain of salt). Construction trades have a shortage of skilled workers, as older workers retire and foreign workers go home. If you want to build a house, good luck in finding workers or pay more for the privilege. That will have an immediate impact on the economy. It will get worse in the future as our population ages. Young people around the world may not want to come America when they can stay at home and build their own country.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this mean that Amazon will support vendor-neutral implementation of their cloud?
Us Nerds were on the math team. I don't remember you from our competitions.
That's funny. The nerds I grew up with were making pipe bombs in the 1970's. I don't remember you in chem lab.
I bet you got the highest percentage of any slashdot reader in the history of this site.
No. I'm consistently up voted more than I'm down voted by the mods. You can check out my stats below.
BTW, For the asshat who gave me crap about the performance of my Python script, I'm using threads and queues to shave 11 minutes off the running time.
It's apparently 12 people that have singled you out who are doing this and everyone else loves you.
A half-dozen.
A net worth of 1M+ at an old age after working 16 hour days is a joke.
My uncle is 70 and still working. The $1M+ figure is just an estimate based on what people can see: the tractor, his house and his truck. No one knows how wealthy he is. It's not polite to ask. My point is that you can't tell who is really wealthy or pretending to be wealthy.
When I was a kid it was acid rain, population explosion and nuclear annihilation.
I've been on jobs where the IT department has nothing documented, either because they got everything memorized or they don't want to share knowledge to maintain job security. One time I asked about how to transition a DOS-based pharmacy program to a new computer. No one could tell me how to do it, as the last person who did left 13 years earlier. Took me weeks to talk to the vendor, work out the steps on a practice machine, and then coordinate with the IT manager to make it happen. When I wrote up the process and handed it out at a meeting, one the techs told me that I got all the steps correct. The IT manager exploded at the tech for withholding the information.
A pathologically insane narcissist [...]
You're confusing me with Donald Trump. And, yes, full employment will be Trump's problem.
The point of this website was all the people that fit certain requirements want to talk to each other.
Citation, please?
Go tell your boss how many hours you spend spamming here daily while he is paying you and see if your thoughts and opinions are correct.
I could but he wouldn't do anything about it. As a contractor, he can tell me what needs to be done but he can't tell me how to do it. Otherwise, under IRS rules, I would have to be paid like an employee. As long as I get my numbers (I'm the top three in the department), he doesn't care what I do between tasks.
You tell us heavy creamer.
I wasn't invited. That's why I'm asking.
Which is not the level of other slashdot readers.
I would love to see the demographic data for Slashdot and crosscheck it with the data I've collected on my websites.
[...] hitting on you in some game [...]
Typically in RPGs. Bad enough that the NPCs do it, but the PCs can't take a hint. So I have to kill them.
We can't make you leave, but we are certainly going to keep shitting all over you.
Then I will continue to piss on you, day in and day out. Or you can stop replying to my comments.
A boring underpaid loser lives a really shitty life so he can save up money for when he is old and sick.
Re-read the comment. A janitor gives you stock tips at the urinal and you blow him off because you two don't share the same socioeconomic background. The paper announces his death and he leaves behind his a whole huge, you would be kicking yourself in the ass for not listening.
Or let's consider my uncle in Idaho. You look at him at him, think that he's a poor farmer, and blow him off. Except he's not a farmer. He's a tractor driver who owns a $250K tractor with computer navigation, satellite TV and air conditioning. He makes more money than the farmers do because he tills the ground from Spring through Fall, working 16 hours per day, and spends the winter fishing on the Gulf of Mexico. His net worth is $1M+.
Here's another book on wealth: "The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley.
In the corporate world your voice is definitely not just as important - in fact it is neither counted, nor listened too, nor considered.
Actually, it is. As a team lead or project leader, my voice gets heard.
Gaining and losing money 3 times is your definition of success?
If you lost it all, could you regain it back again? That's the true measure of wealth.
Do us a favor and don't post more advice. On anything.
Here's another book on wealth: "Job: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert A. Heinlein.
Every fucking day.
That's because I read every day. Get used to it. Or better yet, stop replying to my comments.
You are the shitty loser spammer no one wants on here, who is abusing the open system we have put in place.
Is that you, Commander Taco?
The point being made is that with all those contacts you still have a shittier job than college interns on this site.
Which isn't a fair comparison. I never went to high school. I never got a four-year degree. The internship I did get at Fortune 500 company paid $10 per hour in 1997 when most internships went unpaid. I don't believe that Slashdot's demographics is limited to asshats with four-year degrees, overpaid internships and $200K per year salary for high-end IT jobs. I work the low-end of IT and my voice is just as important. Don't like it go read Reddit.
See the pattern?
You can't stop replying to my comments. Look for in the mirror to find your answers. The problem isn't me. The problem is YOU. On the bright side, I work for the government and I'm here to help you. :p
You giving us money making advice is like the janitor giving advice while I'm taking a piss.
Funny you should mention that...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/ronald-read-secret-millionaire-2015-2
All those contacts... and still only making 50k in the valley.
I'm at the top of my salary range for virtual ditch diggers. That may have changed with the hipsters unwilling to drive no further than 30 minutes from San Francisco. I've seen pay rates for $30 to $45 per hour to work down south (San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara).
Amazing you didn't think to spin your narrative as, you were the only tester who thought to test the female player models, and any womyn who ever played UT2 as a female should thank you for your due diligence.
I prefer playing female characters. If a guy tries to hit up on me, I simply tell him that I'm a fat white guy, watch him go into shock, and then kill him. That routine never gets old.
You forgot the part where Andy gets promoted to management because he always gets his numbers.
did some investing when the .com bubble burst - made about 14k but it was too much work.
I turned $6K into $30K on the way down in the dot com bust. Was out of the stock market when the Great Recession hit, so I missed all the early warnings and opportunities to ride the roller coaster again. That's why I'm building up my cash reserve for the Trump recession.
[...] a failure personally and financially, by our standards on this site.
I've gained and lost money three times in my lifetime. Each time I picked up myself and started over. I'm not impressed by what passes for success on this site.
African staffing firms will be churning out IT workers by 2030. There still won't be any jobs for Americans.
The economy is full employment (take with a grain of salt). Construction trades have a shortage of skilled workers, as older workers retire and foreign workers go home. If you want to build a house, good luck in finding workers or pay more for the privilege. That will have an immediate impact on the economy. It will get worse in the future as our population ages. Young people around the world may not want to come America when they can stay at home and build their own country.
Paid less than the janitors, still desperately holding onto their notions of themselves as vital in some way, and entirely, sadly, delusional.
Janitors make minimum wage. I make 2.5 times minimum wage. Sorry to ruin your narrative, but a sanitation engineer doesn't get paid more than me.