Me trying to do anything turns into a depth first search of all human knowledge
It always works somehow when I start a new job. That’s the way of life. Enjoy it. 😎
Wait…everyone doesn’t do that?
some people wake up every day with the privilege of being vastly more functional than us.
year 4 of selfhostong btw
Is it ADHD, or is it white man confidence?
Nothing I do works consistently, so who cares?
Seriously if I could disappear without hurting anyone or causing rippling traumas, I would in a heartbeat.
Until then, I will at least try to enjoy the beginning of my doomed projects.
Exactly. There is no reason why you shouldn’t have your fun. If it’s concentrated there, at the beginning of projects, then so be it
and that’s the true story of how the airplane was invented
That’s how I got to senior tech lead on my team (software engineer)
That’s been my entire career in computing. I was a director at a small company until it got bought out because they kept promoting me for jumping in with both feet and figuring shit out.
you do end up “figuring out” whatever rocket science or advanced quantum entanglement you needed for the project, but you never finish it.
Haha this is me. I have that OP urge to take on a new project, with the expectation that I will figure it out along the way. Most of the time I actually do figure it out. But once I’ve “figured it out”, I’m bored and don’t want to finish.
Sounding real close to conservative logic but yea you do you…
That’s how I became a chemist lol
Oh boy, I wish I could tell you a story about this without doxxing myself. Holy fuck does it hit hard.
Mr President?
Lmao
I don’t remember how I got here
What if you swap the locality name for “Metropolis”, and yours for “Lex Luthor”?
Let’s just say I was morphing into something in my career, then was made a ridiculous offer for more money doing something I wasn’t fully qualified to do with the promise that there would be plenty of time to ramp up and develop. I took it, the timeline constricted, I got laid off (might as well have been fired), and it derailed my career from the trajectory I was on. Then the entire tech sector went into downturn, everyone’s doing RTO, every job has 487261884 applicants, and I’m about ready to cash in my chips.
I don’t understand the part with chips at the end. Why was the offer ridiculous ? do you mean the compensation was ridiculously higher than your usual ? I kinda did that recently, and am still hard at work to finish the thing in question,… so I can relate, I think.
Yeah, compensation was too high to turn down. I was happy where I was and going in the right direction.
I see. This is something to ruminate, thanks for sharing.
Gotta be AuDHD, then you’ll figure it out, get it all done, and then never be able to replicate it and also never want to try. But at least it will have been solved once for a little while.
This is so relatable… Sometimes i come up with software development that i then spend a month hyper focusing on. Working 15 hours per day on it and actually make it work! But if i then look back at my code, i have zero idea who wrote that monstrosity and how the hell it works 🤷
While I secretly(?) agree. Don’t give up on big ideas. I do think a lot of big ideas that grew to actual big projects, exactly happened like that. When there’s enough approval and a lot people are joining (so that motivation isn’t lost as quickly again).
Sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at it.
