Man, the origin of your screen name is the same level of lore as Rust being named after fungi, and not corrosion. Love it! Glad you're in better health again. Been using your software for nearly 10 years spanning before and after my career started. Thanks for all the work you do in open source.
I finally installed Windows 11 last year so I could use Wifi 6E. Other than that, it is certainly a downgrade. With some debloating and ExplorerPatcher, its mostly the same as Windows 10 now, but I'm praying that an update wont brick my install. Thankfully the latest forced feature update didn't affect me.
I received a title bump without pay increase to Senior after doing senior work for 4 years because our senior bracket is capped by lifers waiting to retire (I like them as people but they are checked out, professionally). It just left a bad taste in my mouth that it took so long to be recognized officially.
To put things into context, I'm basically operating as an engineering consultant to the rest of our senior staff and directors across multiple teams. In larger companies, perhaps I would be an intermediate IC, but in this company I am definitely responsible for more than my ICs.
It's my fault for not holding them to it, and should have realized earlier that I'm working under management that only reacts to things immediately happening to them.
Shouldn't grey beards, grizzled by years of practicing rigorous engineering, be passing this knowledge on to the next generation? How did they learn it when just starting out? They weren't born with it. Maybe engineering has actually improved so much that we only need to experience outages this frequently, and such feelings of nostalgia are born from never having to deal with systems having such high degrees of complexity and, realistically, 100% availability expectations on a global scale.
proxy seems available in general, must just be local to workers because only one of my sites going thru ZT tunnel with identity access rules is affected
I have also noticed strange behavior that was not present before this perceived update, e.g. basic auth challenges and pop-up windows if I'm waking up my computer and still have azdo pages open.
Exercise helps a lot in my experience. I also got stuck in a position of "Context switching and constant hard thinking" for a long time. Just stepped back and let it burn because it was also an "unofficial" position.
I think a more interesting story would be about the people that grind for years and years and never make it. You're left without a useful skill and no money, and probably a deficit on your mental health because you didn't go out and talk to people in real life for years. I think its not at all worth getting into as a career because making it big is like starting out as an actor, you have to know people. If you hit it big and are complaining about being burnt out, just walk away. Sorry that you pissed away your money and don't own a house, I guess? Could live pretty damn well on the money you made from it for a decade or more if you have self control, and have zero debt. Find something else to do in the mean time.
What other career can you make as much money, with such a low barrier to entry in skill and capital? Pretty much every other job requires just as much sacrifice of your time with nowhere near the same earning potential. Most of the big earners started streaming within the last 5 years[2], and even then, the top 2000 streamers are making 100k+[1]. I heard YouTube streaming is paying even better now.
The dynamics of Mondragon participating in free trade are no different than any other corporate entity. The internal dynamic works because most people that are participating share the same core values of shared ownership, and there is no corporate ladder to climb. IMO, leadership making these values core to the business is going against the grain, putting your probability of survival below or equal to that of others, which is why they are a rare occurrence
It's objectively a better model for ensuring the sustainability of a corporation, with respect to operating in a free market. I would say that being an employee at a high productivity co op is the same as being a highly skilled software developer working for a contracting firm or maybe a sizeable startup. You have a valuable impact and have skin in the game.
I think there is a tipping point where greed can end a corporation, but e.g. for western corporations, the beast is fed by central banking. The problem with that, is that there are clear winners that are chosen, which go on to buy out their competition. At that point, you have management making working conditions less and less favorable, for the sake of share holder bottom line, to the point of societal unrest. Take a look at Amazon.
Cheers