I learned this first hand when my family member started receiving SSI, and they said the government check your bank account to see if you have too much money. As a result, you see a line of elderly line up at local banks when it's payday, to withdraw the money out as cash and to keep the bank account balance as low as possible.
Where do people go living offgrid like this? I'm in Los Angeles and will probably never afford a house here due to the high cost, maybe a townhouse some day. Anyone has suggestion for good states or cities that will be good for building your own houses? I've never been out of California really and most of my friends are in CA as well.
Pretty much anywhere in the Midwest is builder and home-buyer friendly, with the caveat that the further you are from a city, the easier and cheaper it is. Anecdotal stories I've heard put IA, ND, SD, WI, MI, MN, IN, NE and KS at about the same level for suburban to rural housing (though this depends on the size and popularity of the closest city). It is typically cheaper (not including maintenance costs) to buy an old house than to build your own. You can buy an old 2000 sqft house for under $200k within commuting distance of the Twin Cities but building a similar house on an empty lot will likely cost more than twice that and have a 10-20 min longer commute.
I'm actually a full stack dev with minimal exposure to what you listed above, ci/cd, docker...I'm also wondering about the opposite. Right now, our small team doesn't have a devops engineer, so I pretty much have to figure out how to do some of the devops stuff. It feels way more straightforward and less stressful than doing full stack work.
> It feels way more straightforward and less stressful than doing full stack work.
It is when everything works!
Kidding aside, one thing I like about DevOps work is that it doesn't get the same kind of scrutiny that other development work involves. Your manager and product manager can see and interact with a client app, but the infrastructure component is opaque to them unless they have experience in this area. In my experience this helps keep the pressure off of you and allows you to work more autonomously. The downside is that you may not get as much recognition when brownie points are passed out.
True, this can be awful if your org operates globally. This isn't a big deal in orgs that deal with a single region. However, I will say the worse part is that when things go wrong, you are first to get a call which can be very stressful. I still get anxiety when someone uses the :rotating-light: emoji.
What's your path from developer to C-Level?
I feel like the companies I've been at don't really let developers move up to management positions, unless you come from the outside or somehow gained management skills somewhere.
I started out in product management, junior level. Then product owner (focus mobile) later on head of product and then c-level.
Developers (or PMs) who are interested in the business they work in and participate actively tend to get promoted/pushed. You have to understand the business perspective if you want to move up and get away from the thought of "I'm just here to develop and if I make the product great, everyone will recognize my talent/skill"
Don't know why people are saying Firefox is fast, Speedometer 2.0 shows a score of 47 where Chrome is 67 on my MBP. And on my PC, Chrome gets 76 whereas Firefox gets 64.
