My grandmother was born and died in the same house at age 95. She never had a job and only 8 years of public school. She worked on family owned fields, foraged forest for mushrooms and berries.
Her handwriting was like of a machine, beautiful, she left over hundred of letters and diary entries behind.
She knew what to plant and when, she knew what berries and mushrooms are growing where almost to the exact hour. She loved her kids and grandkids and made sure each of them received an education that she so much wanted for herself. But 2nd world War happened when she was 14.
I, on the other hand, an ex-amazonian, do not feel in any way superior. She had determination, organization and calmness in her life, and I feel I'm in a constant chase, even though I earn more in a month, than she earned in a year. I pay a lot of money, so that my kids can eat healthy. I still feel I can not provide the healthy lifestyle for my kids, that she has provided for my father.
>I still feel I can not provide the healthy lifestyle for my kids, that she has provided for my father.
I don’t know what you mean by healthy, but I would guess what you feel is simply due to you knowing you could be doing better for your kids than your grandmother thought she could do for your father.
You know there’s sophisticated healthcare and medicine available, but you don’t know if you have secured access to it, and you are in the gray area where you could be in position to secure it.
Or you know there are significant advantages to sewing your kids into the right social circles, and with the right movies, you could achieve that.
So you cannot settle knowing that you could have done more (given your desire to give your kids the maximum support).
However, with your monthly income, you could easily limit your kids’ luxuries in many aspects to what your grandmother gave your dad. But you probably will not be happy with that.
Most likely food and exercise related. Feel like guy above you is basically alter ego me. In most cases sophisticated healthcare and medicine is more about fixing problems than staying healthy imo.
Am also ex-Amazon. Made good money there, which I am grateful for, but definitely didn't emerge healthier.
I general, when I need to do something fast and I have an idea how it should be done, I dislike video format. E.g. how to bind a file from a host to a docker container.
I liked training videos at my previous employer. They were mostly about company culture and concepts. E.g. video explaining that no process at work is fixed. They all should be constantly improved. It was easy to share it with coworkers, why is it ok to start with imperfect process.
I also like videos when I'm learning something completely new and I see the person doing the video also making a mistake. It gives me confidence, that they are human too, and I can grasp it. E.g. how to make fire in unreal engine.
Businesses need to stop caring about if you're on facebook 8 hours a day. If you're getting your work done at the end of the week that's all that really matters.
The idea that the business owns your ass for a minimum of precisely 40 hours a week where you must be solely focused on the outcome of the business is both toxic and nonproductive.
I think that would be a great - but we also employ by the hour not by the task which I also think is great. Sometimes I get tickets marked with three story points and think "Ha, let me just push up a quick patch" and other times I discover a dark dark hole at the bottom of assumptions that eats away at days.
It's really hard to generally evaluate employees on productivity - especially in CS - and so our compromise is that we all lie a bit and say "We're paying you for 40 hours a week" and we reply "Yes - my compensation is tied purely to the fact that I am here for forty hours".
I think it's a much longer road to better employee respect.
Every place I've worked as an FTE, the focus was on the job, not the hours. In fact, I've had many bosses say as much, usually implying that after hours work might be necessary and they'd expect me to take it uncomplainingly.
And I have, though it's always tempered by two things, namely, A. If the job routinely requires > 40 hours a week, then the job is poorly defined and we need to modify expectations, and B. That if I'm working to the job and not the hours, it doesn't matter if I only put in 30 hours one week, if the work is being done (and, likewise, if THAT is routine, the job is also poorly defined, and I need to ask for more things to do).
For me pay by the hour means:
- if the task will take much more work, company will still pay you and they will take the loses
- if the task is done faster, you'll just get more work and company will take the profits
I think this is European approach, trying to eliminate the luck factor out of ones success.
That's not how this works - even if you get your currently assigned amount of work done your manager will always wonder: "how much more this guy could accomplish if he wasn't constantly distracted by Facebook?" Which is a legitimate concern.
Who is this app. You take a picture of a person and app looks through your fb and LinkedIn contacts and gives you short description if you know this person and their interests.
