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How do you motivate yourself? Anytime I think about the future my heart starts aching and I just go back to doomscrolling.

Documentation literally makes a codebase less maintainable.

>>107924862
This job is temporary, my situation is temporary. Break down my long term goals into short term ones and keep those in my head all the time

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>>107924862
if i remain strong enough and make enough money I will some day be able to retire and unironically just have a small property near town but no so near as to be in a suburb on which I will do very little other than have sex with creatures (and maybe some other hobbies)

>>107924944
Can you give some examples for short and long term goals?

Where do you see yourself in five years?

>>107925003
in jail for bestiality and/or terrorism

>>107924978
Short term can saving up for some gadget or getting to that next milestone in your hobby. Long term for me would be moving out of the country and getting a remote job so I can nomad around Europe.

>>107925036
>Long term for me would be moving out of the country and getting a remote job so I can nomad around Europe.
That's a 3-5 year plan at worst and has no provision for its own sustainment, that is not a long-term plan

>>107925003
working at fagman or dead

>>107924978
lose my virginity vs fuck at least 3 girls before I'm 40

>>107925047
It doesn't need to be sustainable long term. I just want to do it for as long as I can or feel like. But it will take time to even get the chance to do it.

>>107925015
>>107925048
I can feel the power through my monitor.

>>107925003
I can't see into the future anymore

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>>107925048
If you work at a FAGMAN you'll want to be dead

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>>107925003
finally having the competence to work on top secret military projects, but having the emotional resilience to have enough hobbies where that isn't even the coolest part

If you call someone to say something that could have been sent in a text, and don't send a text after when someone doesn't respond, I sincerely hope your head explodes tomorrow

>>107924841
Oh, I've only taken it once like 18 months ago. I just know I get sped right through to "Assessment Submitted" and then just watch as I get auto-rejected by 5am my time the next day or so. It's predictable.

>>107925097
Would love to work on military projects (it's cool + no jeets) but I just know I would blab government secrets while black out drunk

What is your biggest weakness?

>>107925194
short attention span
video games
racist instagram reels
pork rinds

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>>107925189
The missile knows where you are by a difference between the firing craft's own position and your current position as acquired by RADAR, and not by knowing where you are by knowing where you are not (though the difference is a purely academic nomenclature issue borne of non-relevant ontological problems)

>>107925194
The missile knows where I am

>>107925194
jeets and their continued existence

>>107925194
dash cancel canceling

>>107924862
Just live your life the way you want to live it. It's a race to the bottom only if you think that's the only way.

>>107925213
I plan on solving this issue by substracting you from the position where you are.
Expect us.

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>>107924862
just b urself

>>107925194
women

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>>107924862
pain avoidance, unironically

i only get around to stuff when i HAVE to, but i get really good at it as a result because it HAS to work and i HAVE to keep trying until it works. it's rarely if ever life-or-death stuff but in most cases, it's having to do something because the alternative is worse

even in the most casual stuff at work, it's rarely been out of genuine interest for itself and more because
>This sucks. This sucks so fucking much.
>What if it DIDN'T suck?
and any good habits are borne of remembering a time where i thought "This sucks. This sucks so fucking much." and figuring maybe a structural change is required to reduce the number of times that happens

>>107925194
Caring too much, and not in a good way, in a maladaptive pathological way that often leads to self harm.

>>107925194
Panicking needlessly over the smallest things, and then getting distracted by trying to de-escalate emotionally

>>107925194
excel. not that im bad at using it, i mean i fucking love excel. at my last job i had so many spreadsheets full of nonsense no one else would ever read but any time anyone asked me something I'd be like "give me five minutes", and 4m50s of it would be a smoke break after checking my giant spreadsheet of everything i knew full of formulas and queries and shit. it's true what they say. make the biggest most horrendous corporate shitware that covers every case, then ask if it's what the user wanted. the user will tell you "I just wanted Excel"

>>107925376
>>107925314
also these

>>107925142
i send text messages blind and don't wait for confirmation before carrying on as if the recipient read and understood it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_JygUgiweI

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>>107924862
>How do you motivate yourself?
sex, my sports car, concerts, and lifting weights.

>>107924862
>How do you motivate yourself?
By having a job thats actually so much fun that some days i have to literally tell myself "its 8pm just turn your damn work laptop off" and some times when i tell myself that, i still don't listen
>>107925194
>What is your biggest weakness?
I guess sometimes (just sometimes, its sort of rare) would be the equivalent of "writers block" and i either do nothing or work on personal projects. But i think this is made up for during the times where i am so interested i work harder than i should

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I just finished my on-site today bros. Everything went off without a hitch. They said once the execs approve it I could get my offer in as soon as two days. Now I'll no longer have to post on /utwg/

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>email sent out today
>everybody is now required to document the following on every jira ticket:
>what internal AI tools did you use for this task?
>how many hours did the tool usage reduce your task compared to the time it would take to complete without it?
>If you don’t use AI tools you must explain why you didn’t
This is also the software employer that pays non poverty wages within 100 miles of me. It really and truly is over.

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Did anyone complete the OA for the tech force? I have like 3 days left to take it and have no idea what's inside. I'm guessing it's just leetcode problems?

I got a 4 gpa on my MBA

>>107926871
is that on a 4.0 or 5.0 scale

>>107927123
4.0 scale. It's only the first semester. I have the rest of this year to go.

I'm very certain my boss fucking hates me. What are the signs I should be looking out for that indicate an immediate firing? I haven't been put on a PIP, yet.

Already searching for new work, but still.

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>>107927144
>It's only the first semester. I have the rest of this year to go
I thought you'd have at least 1 and a half years to go, but good luck anyway

since your in /twg/ do you have a tech job? If not keep asking your CS teachers and department for internship optortunities. Even if the pay is shit its still worth it (for the experience, if they have you do bullshit tasks like where 4/5 problems are unclogging a printer then it isnt worth it)

>get phishing test email on cellphone
>tap and hold link so I get a popup with the url, don't actually open anything
>get email saying I failed the phishing test
So tired of this shit. Nonsense security theater. Another two hours wasted on some brain dead training video on how not to do what I didn't do in the first place because of bad javascript.

>>107927399
have you ever had a long vacation? you forget things... do you not?

>>107927446
i program in C, so it's pretty difficult to forget things, even after a few weeks away

>>107927446
I often forget how to write code. More now that LLMs write most of it for me.

>>107927419
>>tap and hold link so I get a popup with the url, don't actually open anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching

>>107927451
eh, I work in security. I have shallow knowledge of many topics... so I forget things if I don't practice, or at least if I don't brush up about things from time to time. I have lots of notes, but still..

>>107927475
god i could never

>>107927475
Prefetching doesn't happen on a long press. It's js they have running on the background that trips on interaction and doesn't check if actual navigation occured.

>>107927479
you could never what, work in security? why not?
I meant to say offensive security, btw. not SOC monkeys or similar shit.

>>107927505
>Prefetching doesn't happen on a long press.
I assume it might in some cases, though I don't know for sure.

>It's js they have running on the background that trips on interaction and doesn't check if actual navigation occured.
aha. that sucks. what a bunch of retards...

>>107927542
i like to write code and hate using other people's programs

>5 yoe
>no degree
>got my last job after a month and 2 interviews and like 30 applications
>10x better dev now than I was back then
>can't land a job
why shouldn't I just lie and say I have a masters from a shitty local school?

>>107928018
just dropout?

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>We need you to do a minimum of 2-3 commits a day. If you don't do this, this is a problem.
Fuck right off. Our microservice architecture resembles a metro map, people keep pushing broken AI-generated slop and developers need to write Jira tickets based off vague business requirements. I fucking wish the product was in a state where we could just develop new shit and not having to unfuck the shitty microservices.

>recruiter reaches out
>have phone screen
>ask about hiring process
>says it has four phases that will take about two weeks
>(X) Doubt
>four days later reaches out to schedule next interview and gets my availability
>i'm WFH so pretty much wide open
>schedules interview for four days later
i didn't expect anything else, but idk why they don't just come out and say "this is gonna take two months"

>>107928377
>still gets phone screens
lucky

>>107928175
>commit a comment
>commit to fix a typo in that comment
>commit again to just remove the comment altogether
if they're gonna set stupid metrics, just play the game

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My new customer's policy forces me to use claude for coding and I don't fucking want to deal with this bullshit code that it generates. I can whip up shit fast myself and I do it precisely, this thing is like a fresh junior dev who never even programmed as a hobby during studies.

>Guy sitting next to me is constantly procrastinating at my expense and trying to start small talk
>"What are working on anon? Did you see yesterday's match anon? Bad weather today anon. Did you see how trump took maduro? Look at this reel anon it's so funny."
>Manager constantly passing by and looking at us to make sure we are working making me stressed
>Two that sit behind me and are constantly talking
>Guy that aggressively types at his keyboard for like 5 seconds at irregularly spaced intervals
I FUCKING HATE open office spaces

>>107928898
I had a colleague who would clear his throat every half a minute. I couldn't ask him to stop doing it, because it could have been a medical condition or some autistic stimming he was unable to control. I wanted to kick his teeth in after sitting five minutes in the same open office.

Boomers and GenXers had it so nice with office rooms and cubicle farms.

>>107928960
You could’ve done the old “Are you okay? Do you need a mint?”

>>107927278
I'm working free internships

>>107928657
>claude
That's the best AI. It doesn't lie when it lacks information.

>>107928175
>minimum of 2-3 commits a day. If you don't do this, this is a problem
there have been days where i wont push because the thing im testing isnt successful yet. im not going to push a failure
>>107928657
You can just use it to generate the basic structure and flesh all the fine details out yourself. Thats weird that they are forcing it though. My company is getting into it and got a copilot license, but its not enforced, just recommended that we play with it and see how it can make our lives easier
>>107929437
>I'm working free internships
Nothing wrong with that, my first internship was for bare minimum wage as the head IT guy at a nonprofit office (some workers were actually volunteers) but i think it was an excellent experience and it taught me a lot.

I hope you're enjoying your experience too, even if the work is free. What kind of stuff do they have you do, is it solo stuff, or you observe others as they work, working as support for people and their problems, etc?

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>Company sends me an OA
>take it, get an automated message a few hours later telling me I passed it
>never hear from them again
>it's been almost two weeks
>sent a message on monday "hey can I get an update on the status of my application, when am I getting an interview?"
>no response

>wake up with a headache
It's over before it even began...

my team has such a "bend the knee" type attitude towards our operation team, am I just screwed?

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post bad jokes gone for far too long

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>unemployed generals now delete on sight because the users were talking about shooting tech CEOs
kwab

>>107928113
Me grinding runescape for money back when vennies didnt rape the gp value

>>107925194
jeets
human interaction

>>107924862
OP here again, I guess for me it's the lack of control. All my long term goals depend on other people and other people are just not doing it for me. Ngl, it's starting to get pretty bad where I have troubles sleeping.
>Can't own a house
>Can't get into a relationship
>Who knows how long I'll have my job and how hard it is to find a new one
>everyone's turning shittier every day and I'm tired of the constant surveillance from other people
fuck man it feels like one day I'm really going to crash out.

>>107930340
>OP here
ok but who cares and how is this relevant information

>>107930100
Don't we already have Terraform for DSL to deploy resources?