jarjar12

Keep up the great work. Don’t listen to others.

May be They are preparing for the future.

We should start protesting to make sure robots can buy cars.

Euro was Over 1.50 per dollar at the exchange rate. No?

Unfortunately I might fall in this category. I am a Sr level manager/influencer at a Dow 30. Ex-programmer. Been there 7 years. I just got accepted at kellogg emba. So unless I switch jobs after 1 year I will be this guy.

One of the reason i got stuck is that 3 years into my job; my ex-VPs, who are both CTOs now, asked me to build cloud based eCommerce platform for this top 5 online retailer.

where i was I charge of digital transformation for the entire online space except the infrastructure.

This was 3 year journey. That put it into 6+ year mark.

Sorry a dumb question. What are the use cases ? Thx

This:). I lost 25 pounds on Keto in over 9 months. Then relaxed my diet to gain about 7-9 pounds back. I went back to Keto Two weeks ago and down from 165 to 161.

I eat less than 20 carbs a day.

With 200 grams of protein and about 150 grams of fat. I feel great. Can go without food cravings all day. My CrossFit has improved and I have set 2 PRs in two weeks on weights.

I believe in low carb diets. And have seen them work for many folks at my CrossFit box.

Ymmv

Oh. The issue I have seen is many of new grads want work for the big name company or tech companies. And they limit their options. Just be true to yourself that if you want work for tech company they need people who already know cutting edge technology and start to produce from day 10. Where as non tech companies need people who can understand business and how to solve biz problems.

Not true. I run 110 people team for a large retailer. I built this team nearly from scratch. About 80 percent of my team consist of right of college kids or folks with less than 2-3 years of experience. We they are very smart kids. :). I paired them up with other seniors from different department to train them up. We also pay very well. Entry level pay is 80k plus like with only college degree but with hard interview. I Also work very hard to make them successful example include sitting down and knowledge sharing of how the business works or even sitting down to layout framework or debug etc. i truly enjoy working new generation the old is status quo :(.

I manage about 110 people at fortune 30. 50-50 mix of FTe and contractors.

However I make it a point to walk around and know almost everyone at some what personal level.

With my leaders I make a point to take them out for lunch once a week on my dime and thats my 1 on 1. For a skip level I take random person out for lunch once a week as well.

For across organizations that I aceess to, I also take their leaders out for lunch once a month or so. Or may just have a short convo as 1 on 1.

Doing one on one in formal setting does not create a personal bond.

Today I have a great relations with many of them.

I try not stop them if they want to give me project status to ensure I understand if there is some personal issue going from or with someone which they want to bring it up. Example is other leaders or architects or others are pushing back on anything.

Experience can probably tell you if they just want to give status update and then I would just stop them gently and say hey good job let’s talk about you.

AusTin Texas.

Blue dot in Red Sea. Many many opportunities. Our pay if far better than Bay Area. Sr software here makes 130+ lead at 160+.

Entry level is 85

Eh. You have wrong it.

Market keeps going up because we continue to have global growth. Over 66% of countries are showing positive GDP and growth. US growth is also fairly high. Historically GDP averages around 1.8%. The talk of 3% is just politics.

In addition, technology has created a lot of efficiency providing healthy profits for businesses.

In addition, there is a high feedback loop of spending by all major businesses. Example: apple produces phones that require a lot of software and hardware to work which means a lot of other companies involved which also creates competition among multiple phone companies to also produce something similar and so on.

Yes we are at a fair valuations and I sincerely hope for a 10-20% correction. But we are in a 20 year bull run with minor bears in between.

About money printing. Yes I agree some day one of the central banks will be trouble but other will bail it out.

Also cheap money is good. It helps mid to lower income families come up. Micro loans are good example of it. Why can't lower income generating families have access to cheaper money ? Why do they have to pay 8-10% interest?

Imagine if you were from a low to mid income family, wanting to go to school won't you want cheaper loans. And if people abuse that privilege then they will pay for it. If you are just getting out of school and need some house loan etc. won't be bette to have easy access to money? Or do you want 8-10% interest ?

Yes I agree a lot of money has been printed but it has created healthy money vilocity that has gone appropriately to create value for everyone.

World was much worse 15 years ago just go back and look.