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shetill

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Location: UK

Remote: Yes Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, FastAPI, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, Airflow, Redis, Postgres, SQS, Lambdas, Microservices. Have worked on Platform, Data and MLOps projects

Résumé/CV: on request

Email: hk.radev@gmail.com

Most American thing I read today. Wish my manager would talk about how to help me make more money and what to do to improve. Don't know about you but all my managers in EU just talk lame work stuff and actively avoid any pay related issues and improvement points.

That's good advice but will have to say that it is unfortunately out of your control. It has a lot to do with genetics than people want to admit.

I have health and mental conditions that interfere with my mental abilities and makes career progression difficult and it's all due to being born with those.

So yeah do eat healthy and exercise but also be realistic. Some people have it easy and take it for granted, other don't, such is life.

Location: UK

Remote: Remote for US Company

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Java, SQL, Bash, Linux

Infra: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Airflow, Ansible, Azure, Postgres

CV: email me first

Email: hk.radev@gmail.com

- 5+ years of Backend/Data experience and infrastructure

- used to working closely with Data Scientist and build them tools

- good experience working on greenfield projects

- very adaptable and good at figuring things out

This is all true but note you've still started grinding in your 20s. I'm thinking more like if you take a teen or early 20s and they grind 10k hours on leetcode and you take a 30s or older and they put 10k hours too who would come ahead? My bet would be on the young ones.

Remote made me very isolated, and especially in a team where we are 3 people and everyone else is 15 years older than me with kids and I have nothing in common with them. I could go do random meetups outside work but that's usually weekends as I live further away from bigger city, so that means that at least 5 days of the week I stay home barely talking to anyone.

I understand exactly what OP means and I've been looking for something like this too.

When it comes to sports I think it needs to be something with lower physical bar such as table tennis, archery, shooting. Unlikely you can compete on world level but at least locally.

For other things I think certain computer games might do but you will be competing with kids that play 12 hours every day so again you can only compete on small scale and in my experience online competitive games attract the most toxic people. You can try Geoguessr which I think is your best option.

Then you have the more arty skills such as stand-up comedy, music production, cooking all can be competitive if you are into any of these and your age shouldn't matter much in fact it might help.

While I sympathize this is still a lot better than working your life away for some random no-name company and get paid peanuts and not even have the option to move out of that.

I'm mostly talking EU here because making peanuts barely applies for any US job but in the end I'm a Sr Dev and still barely have time to have friends/spouse while struggling to have any savings and living in HCOL.

I'd say count your blessings, it can always be worse.

Not in me but I noticed in colleagues who have kids. It's impossible to have virtual meeting with them since the kid keeps screaming the whole time and they have to keep attending to it. Honestly if you are in this situation please do everyone a favor and either find someone to take care of that kid while you work or go to office.