I feel lucky to be in the position I am, especially given my sketchy past and shaky start to life and I can’t stress that enough to others who may see this.

What about yourself, what do you do? And do you enjoy it?

Edit: Just realised you’re OP and you’ve described your work in the post.

Thanks. They really are.

I’m a software developer with 4 others and two owners who also code most of the time.

We are consultants so we get approached my clients exclusively via word of mouth. They treat the clients just as fair as they treat us so we get lots of repeat work and recommendations. Quite a large local authority too which is nice.

We can be making a whole host of different applications which I don’t want to disclose here in case that isn’t something I am allowed to discuss. Basically though if you could think of a system for a business then we could make it.

Not that I am the smartest person but one of the owners is the smartest person I’ve ever met and I don’t believe there is anything they couldn’t build.

Ah my bad.

Isn’t the “rep” here for representative as she is a democrat?

Cocaine it is then.

It’s a long story so I will try and bullet point it as I don’t have a lot of time to answer.

• Mid to late thirties and I’m thinking I’m a failure at life. Think I have ADHD but never diagnosed. Had 50+ jobs to this point and I always quit or lose them for poor attendance etc, mix in a little fraud to supplement wages.
• Apply to an insurance company and begin training. Someone I had screwed over (I am a better person now) reported me to management and they fired me.
• decided to apply to Apple as a Christmas temp and get hired for 3 months.
• excel at being faux extrovert and apply for Genius Bar as a Technical Specialist. Get hired.
• Begin work at the Genius Bar where I thrive cause being a fake extrovert actually makes you happier at times, but you leave work drained.
• Realise we have healthcare and seek an ADHD diagnosis, which I got.
• surrounded by talented people and infinite support from management I decide to do a software development bootcamp.
• excel at coding as I had always been interested and I am even at a higher level than the teacher and they’re blown away by my projects.
• suck at interviews and so do another bootcamp, 😔, as this one also get you interviews.
• excel at this bootcamp too and still suck at interviews.
• must have gone for 30 jobs and didn’t get any.
• start to feel down but finally get hired to a small company.
• life really isn’t any greener over here and I still struggle to maintain happiness.
• company I work for is excellent. All about work life balance and the work is secondary to us.
• been 18 months. Got a pay rise after 1 year. Then 6 months later we all get a pay rise again and a reduction in hours.
• we only work 33 hours a week now with 21 days holiday which goes up one day each year until you’re at 25 days.
• don’t have to lie about why I am sick. If not having a good mental health day then I tell them and I am not expected to work.

It’s sadly very real. Ye went in a crazy tirade in this thread. It was pre Super Bowl, where if you don’t know he also got an advert segment for a Nazi t shirt in his site.

Funnily at the very same Super Bowl a dancer for KDot showed a Sudan / Palestine flag and was promptly tackled. But buying ads for Nazi merch is A Okay.

Huh… Not my intention.

I wasn’t wishing them success with their thesis /s

You got this bro 👊

edit:

I remove the output from ChatGPT due to people not being happy with that.

I’ve spend some time reading all the results from Google on this topic and the overwhelming consensus is that it is not good to spray your cat with water.

This is true even if you use an unbiased search term.

Hey that looks cool thanks.

Great username btw.

You should play Factorio. Although there is a great risk you will never leave the house again.

Curious how you got on with the Rubik’s cube?

Why yall so scared all the time. You’re more likely to die on your way to giving the item away than the buyer murdering you.