I'm a cynical person to begin with, but in the end, there actually is good people, good teams, good management, good HR who do not think with gender/sex. You're just one of the team, a person unique to you with unique set of skills and not defined if you have boobs or moobs.

We're developers, a breed of our own, we stick together and share the humor based on our pain.

Well, it requires a certain type of person to work in IT to begin with. You gotta be slightly masochistic to enjoy this bs.

But for women it's a bit even more so. For me it's been "why would a *woman* study IT", "are you an IT student" when asking thesis topic from the professor, "who takes care of the children when they're sick" in work interviews (~illegal here), "suppose we'd need to set two saunas if we had a woman workin here" etc...

On the other hand "it's so awesome to have a *woman* working here" as if all my skill doesn't matter, the only thing meaningful is what I have between my legs. Men on power trips hiring women 'cause they think they're more easily manipulated to do their jobs for them too without any extra pay. Getting paid less than less experienced male colleagues, not getting raises... (These do apply to men too but on top of everything it stacks...)

It's no wonder some take the easier path. I'm just too a stubborn bitch to take any of it.

Intelligence

(I'm sapiosexual)

I'm so, so very close on quitting my boss. He's a micromanaging, condecending pos.

I like my workplace, I like what I do but don't think I can take this much longer. And it's only been 2½ months......

And yeahhh, I was forced to pick out these cameras within the first two weeks of my employment in the current organization & project. I had no idea about camera connection options or anything like that. They capture automatically pictures of the license plates as asked! I still don't know anything, more than before but I'm still a noob.

Like all my three cameras even came without a power supply. Like I didn't even realise that's a thing. >.> I'm reading the fine print now.

I like ADHD people, they're fun to be around. One of the rare types of people who can keep up with my own autistic brain flow. xD

This is luckily for work and this was like the umpteenth solution I was trying.

Basically I'm limited by what connection options the cameras I have offer, and I have three types of cameras so I want a universal application...

But screw these ready doodle blocks. I'm now writing a code that connects to the cameras based on their ONVIF (ok, still need to check if one of them supports it even if it's a STANDARD) and then streams the feed to Azure.

Hopefully I'm getting all the built in capture triggers to go with it, otherwise I'm screwed and I can just trash these cameras and move under my desk to cry.

Just on the autism spectrum. So closer to a sociopath than mental illness I suppose. All the good programmers I've met haven't been right in the head on normal societal standards.

We're our own breed to survive this industry.

@SidTheITGuy nah, that be illegal over here. And I'm preeeetty sure I'm in that risk group for weed induced psychosis with my genetic lottery luck. I have considered CBD though.

I'm currently using these new biological meds. Along with my other 9 regular meds. But not much help so far. :'< At least I live in a country where I don't go bankrupt over it. :D

I mean, is there an alternative? O:

Orrr, you just had a fun vacation and are actually growing as a person to have a work/life balance?

I have the best work gig so far (like only results matter, not the hours put in) and my gods do I hate getting back to work. So much that I 'overslept' for 2 hours and now I'm devranting and reading the every after-holiday cheery getting back to work tips that are not helpful at all. I just hate work and have so much more fun out of it.

Let's be real here. *"Fuck cloud" You're not going to find anything resembling smart or usable from any of the alternatives either. >.>

3732€/month (before taxes etc.) but I work 30h/week. It's not much for 6+ years of experience senior software engineer but it's part-time WFH position with pretty chill responsibilities.

This hits home so much. In 20 minutes I have a 'weekly' so it's not just a daily, which are overly long in this project anyway, it's an hour+ long status check of everything which most has nothing to do with me. Just kill me now and save me the suffering.

And tomorrow we have this 'super fun exciting team office day', yay. 50 minute commute for 5 hours of suffering & torture (I'm so escaping early), just 'to see face to face as it's so team building'. As autistic, the only team building I'm gonna do is screech everyone to shut up and maybe punch the most idiotic people in the room.

@alexbrooklyn my work is a fever dream. I maintain (and worst part, create) powershell scripts that should never ever have existed.

Best part, on my first week I created a script to create my scripts and a script to create my Word documentation for me so I do this on-paper-3-day-work in less than 5 minutes and deliver it in 1½ -2 and I'm hailed as a fast worker.

I also wrote this in a migraine. I now have migraine after effects. I do not have all the Moomins in the valley. Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I can't do simple stuff. Well, I can but it'll take me ages to do it. My brain just can't ever get around to do it. Simple find & replace terms from a file & check that it still works afterwards as a new script? Nope, can't do. I had to work it around into a script that does it for me to make it more complex. >.>

My brain is just living on a higher complexity level so it feels I'm dumb when I'm working in a too simple environment. It sounds harsh for other people but I can't help it. <.<"

@mansur85 I live in Finland. Some parts of Finland are warmer than other parts of Finland. It's not cold imo. I hate the sun, hot & beaches.

Mine is doing good afaik. Think we're pretty stable in the Nordics. Juniors struggle to get their starters ofc like everywhere but seniors can do their pick.

I've never put 100% effort on my work. I seem to keep up with expectations if I give my 10%. Over that I keep getting mentions that I work fast and that seems to generate issue with tasking. And ofc I want more chill time. And more importantly *need* more chill time. #superfocusautisticbrainsometimesworks

Yes, yes you are supposed to do that. Especially if you're a consultant as customers are gonna ask explicitly people with X months of experience in Y technology and if you got X-1, tough luck.

Only if it has tentacles.

Give away the only thing that makes the life worth living for? Yeah, that sounds like a good solution. Not.

My ickle boi broke his leg when he was a pupper. He's cost me at least 5k€ so far but I wouldn't change it. He gives so much joy (and a lot of frustration too) back and he keeps me sane. He's also very handy to remind me to take my asthma meds before I even realise I'm having an attack. (Works for migraine too.)

He (and his big bro) is the only reason I go out daily. He keeps the anxiety away. Just the best thing in the world.

But objects need to be killed at some point. Think of the memory!

I love Angular. <3 Been doing React the past couple of months and it's been a _pain_.

Give me Angular any day. <3

That's a great scenario as now you can log more hours to the ticket with ofc abundance of fill-up chill-up time! \o/ It takes eons to resolve those, right (to click that IDE button to keep whichever is the correct, mhm, mhm). And then you have to test it properly if it still works, both run those automated tests and make a jab at it yourself... Heaven.

We had a great team in this project. I wasn't afraid of the other two devs destroying our codebase.

We made some amazing things. Some totally awesome improvements under the hood.

We're handing the project over today to this pos team who don't know what they're doing 99% of the time and I'm preeetty sure they're going to just ruin everything we accomplished as it doesn't fit in to their (INFERIOR, I might add) way of doing things.

But. It's not my problem anymore. <3

Don't use Next. Be nicer to yourself.

You only go into those trainings to get a badge to put on your CV. Potential clients like it. If you're not a consultant... well, suppose if there's ignorant management people, they like it on your CV too & might be grounds for a raise for increased knowledge. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They are *not* a learning experience.

I'm little rusty on networking but I can get that to work.

Design, yeah, nope. UX/usability, yes but design? Best I can do is Material Design & UI.

Other than that, yeah, I could be a one person team...

That's why I prefer every change ticketed in Jira or somesuch. Preferably written by the person who requests the thing. Or even email or chat message. I try to make it so that *nothing* is done solely based on a spoken word.

It's one of those things that make a senior developer.