Yes, it has. If you're not circlejerking with the group or praising something, you will be downvoted.
Discussions always seem to aim for the silver lining, even with ridiculous results. And instead of addressing issues and offering real life advice, most people spit out some dressed up idealism they see in movies and read in books. Everybody dreams himself a hero that comes to save the thread.
The only way to get a good answer is from controversy and debate. If all people are saying the same thing with different words, something is wrong. Personally, I come here only for the posts. They are the only ones offering any real value. I stopped reading the comments a long time ago.
College is overrated. And pretty much useless after you figure out how to learn by yourself. Plus, when it's finished, you will end up in the same place. Boring job to pay the bills.
Excluding a highly publicized and admired minority, most IT people are in the same situation you are. If you want to get out of it, self-employment is the only way. You will never get time for yourself with a job. You will always learn just enough to do the work when you're employed.
Society is training us to be replaceable robots. If you don't like being one, change something. Anything. Then see what happens and adapt.
Your approach sucks even more. Proving yourself to a company just to get a job offer is a lot of effort for very little gain. Simply sending a resume to 50 companies has a much higher chance of succeeding.
Even if you do spend the time and impress someone. All you get is a standard job offer. They don't make the effort to impress you. So then, why go through the hassle? Why waste a day to make your case when you can easily send 20 resumes and get a higher probability of success?
You're probably on the hiring side. This would explain your skewed and entitled perspective. Getting a job these days is just a numbers game. Doesn't matter how skilled you are. You're either extremely sociable with a large network of people that can get you a job. Or you're spamming job adverts until something sticks. Meanwhile, employers want to be impressed. And can't figure out why skilled people don't come running to their shitty jobs with shitty pay.
I'm afraid that you misunderstood. I was the one wasting time with you. You're clearly having a problem with maintaining a fitness habit. Don't blame me if don't like the reality. I'm just giving you the cold hard truth everybody else tries to sugarcoat.
I know you love talking out of your ass. But if you ever decide to push yourself for more than two months, you will understand that a fitness habit never feels forced. You will chase it in an active manner because you will love it.
Ask any fit or sporty individual you know. They don't do it because they have to. They do it because they want to.
The boredom you mentioned is natural. Everybody gets it at the exact same strength and at the exact same moments. The difference is that some people are disciplined enough to continue and burn through it. And only then you get to see the fun and enjoyment part.
Discipline is king. With anything else you're just lying to yourself. Nobody will create the perfect environment for you to be comfortable with physical effort. You're the one that has to do it.
Because you lack discipline. You never learned to accept pain and effort now for a valuable gain in the future. You're chasing pleasure and trying to avoid pain. And you're simply living in the present, satisfying every random whim and craving.
Every good thing in your life comes at a price. You may not see it yet, but there are no freebies. If you want a fitness habit, you need to pay for it with time and effort. There are no magic solutions. You simply need to force yourself to suffer. Embrace the pain. If you're not feeling like you're dying, you're doing it wrong.
Go do 10 push-ups right now. Get up from your chair and do them. There is nothing really stopping you. Only the excuses you make for yourself.
Time costs money. And you want free time from other people. That little piece of advice you really really need might take a half an hour for an UI designer to write or talk about. And that half an hour can easily be charged to someone else who is willing to pay for it.
It's just supply vs demand. UI/UX design is in very high demand. Every startup and entrepreneur wants a logo, graphic design or a website.
Why waste time helping someone out for free when you can charge for it?
Every company has it's own "books" they want you to read. At Facebook you work on a social network, at Google on a search engine. If you apply to 10 jobs, you need to read 10 different books.
"But you can't be arsed to make that small investment in yourself before applying for a new job?"
Bills don't pay themselves. Why can't you, the employer, be arsed to make that small investment in your new employee? You're the one with the capital.
"Your job as an engineer entails constantly learning and trying new things in order to find the best solution"
Exactly, job. As in getting paid for it. Not sure why you think it's a duty. A sacrifice that employees must make for you.
"I might as well give the work to a much cheaper coder in an off shore sweatshop."
Discussions always seem to aim for the silver lining, even with ridiculous results. And instead of addressing issues and offering real life advice, most people spit out some dressed up idealism they see in movies and read in books. Everybody dreams himself a hero that comes to save the thread.
The only way to get a good answer is from controversy and debate. If all people are saying the same thing with different words, something is wrong. Personally, I come here only for the posts. They are the only ones offering any real value. I stopped reading the comments a long time ago.