The more I learn about programming jobs the less attractive and unfulfilling they become. Spent last 15 years building and administering CMS driven university websites and come 40+ getting a job has become almost impossible to attain. Better ways to attain a fulfilling meaningful life without living in a computer screen or suffocating in leet code. The intensity of brainpower can be used in more human and socially meaningful and fulfilling pursuits.

I’ve been working at my job since the end of May last year. I wanted to quit when September hit for school. I messed up my Fasfa and now I’m here even longer and January is about to end lol 😅

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I just started two 1099 positions at once remote. a solar and a Saas. Figure I'll keep both if its working out or drop the lesser quality gig after a month or two. Both commission only (I'm new to sales so beggers can't be choosers). terrible idea?

Software is a trade, not a profession.

yea working remotely is not it lol, basically just a slow decline of the workforce

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AI definitely won't take jobs I always tell people this. Definitely gonna make people work faster maybe less people will end up being hired though

efficient markets also kind of ignores the human aspects of life such as cultures and spiritually ala an example being completely hallowing out the Rust Belt of the USA (and killing those peoples' spirits) because you could get 'muhh efficient market' returns by moving those factories (and trade secrets) over to China where there are no labor laws or environmental laws and little to no regards to human life

Cant wait until I have grown person money and get to buy cool stuff lol

You hit some good points. Efficient markets are really just an idea, and the reality is stuff does tend to work itself out like you said. However, it’s no secret that efficient markets are a long-run phenomenon. At the end you mentioned that we’ll see some more failures before this all corrects itself, and it’s true - and it’s because the markets are still irrational in the short run. People will learn. I liked this video.

Addiction? I believe it’s called retail therapy 😂

modern software is evil and alot of bait and switch

Beautiful out there! Great quality vid. Great content! Being 35 years old, I feel the responsibility that I have to find younger guys to mentor, talk to, share knowledge, and such. I believe that being a mentor is like an inner quality that just shows up at some point in life and grows.

Hi! Currently in the process of looking for a position(DevOps Engineer) after a layoff(1 month ago). Do you have any tips for resume building? So far I am getting 0 reaction(0 calls) from my resume…I have no idea what is going on…

If you ever don't believe in yourself, just know that Evan believes in you!

'You are already naked'

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Mazel tov to your new marriage, new business, and new year 🎉

I dig the perspective. Is your goal for this channel to be general life/philosophy discussion or more career focused? One thing this channel (might) benefit from is more specifics from your past and your plan for the future. Personally I'd like to know more specific details about things that did or did not work for you, and maybe the reasoning you had at the time which fueled those decisions vs looking at the results/lessons learned retroactively. Why or how a specific decision (say a career change from software dev to/from tech sales to/from entrepreneurship) tied into your previous/current philosophy on life/career. I just gave you a bunch of word salad I don't know if that made any sense.

Do you often meet people that don't struggle with anything because they don't have any goals in life?

We never lose or fail, we always win, because each "failure" allows us growth 💪 without pressure, no growth 🤷🏼‍♀️

It's definitely been easier said than done when I've been trying to find ppl to be a mentor. You don't have to limit yourself to only 1 mentor. Each person brings a unique perspective and skillset, and it'll take time for you to get a sense of who the type of person / personality that resonates with you the most. Like with learning skills, sometimes you need to accept that you'll suck at finding the right person before stumbling up in the right one!

Totally agree with this. When I worked remotely this past year I was lucky enough to have a manager that was always willing to talk about life, school, work, whatever we wanted in our 1:1 chats. Now he is able to give me some recommendations to other tech companies. It is 100% worth the effort getting a mentor.

You have a nice candid channel man. Are you working remote? saw your other vid warning about it but if you made a vid about how you make it work that would be cool. Like literally the logistics (your gear, finding accommodation with work desks, phone plan, how you fit in the hiking etc)

Jump in the water!

you have insomnia and your eyes are that clear :[[[[[[[[[[

This channel is so good. The content is sharp, honest, and genuinely insightful. But the name doesn’t match what’s going on here at all. When I first saw the name and your thumbnail-just you sitting in some random background-I figured it was going to be one of those cringy channels complaining about how unfair everything is (like, a rant, right?) - like some extreme complaining from one side of the aisle or the other. I was wrong. This shit is real, funny, and actually worth watching. Coincidentally this was a take on AI, and I even asked ChatGPT for better name ideas, but everything it came up with sucked. Which maybe says something about ChatGPT, maybe it says something about me as a prompt engineer.

Laughed when you said we are good at screwing things up! Love this. So true!

Don’t agree. If super intelligence is achieved, which almost all experts in the field believe will happen in the next couple of years or few decades, then it will be better than ANY human at any task. It will be able self-improve, have the ability to create better robotics for itself and so on. So at some point, it won’t be just a tool. It seems the only counterargument to this is that achieving ASI might take longer, perhaps several decades. In that case having a CS degree, might remain valuable for a couple of years. However, personally I doubt that it will take that long given the advancements in the past 5 years.

AI won't take any jobs, but humans using AI will. Be that human. If you are a talented developer, you will be an even more talented AI developer. we don't ride horses anymore, because the car exists and it's lunacy to think you can beat an idiot in a car with your racehorse. Keep Humans in the Loop !

I remember interviewing candidates to help with a job I'd worked on for about 6 months, and the elders wanted to give a bunch of downloaded questions and tests that weren't really relevant to the work we actually did. When I showed them my questions based on the tech stack and jobs we actually were hiring for, I was mocked and refused. The interviews ended up being fluff and surface-level feel-good shit, and they hired effectively someone random off the street. He was a terrible coder, but kissed the boss's ass better than anyone, and ended up in charge after the company got acquired and dozens of workers got axed. The whole thing fizzled anyway so I never really found out what happened because i never liked the guy or the boss anyway.

lol sales "engineer" to support a salesman. They really be calling anyone an engineer these days.

The entire reason why SWEs are paid so well is because it's "cheap" to make software. We're not bounded by physical constraints when it comes to the amount of software that can be written. Like you said, as AI improves SWEs are only going to have even more leverage. If AI meaningfully accelerates development, it'll then be possible to pursue more software projects. At least where I work, we have a ton of projects we want to undertake but can't due to labor constraints. I would expect most companies to be the same. Tech hiring might be broken for a while but I suspect the market will eventually correct itself.

its amazing for boilerplate and fixing odd bugs, but the pure creativity and larger infra decisions it breaks down unless you repeatably give it that context. even then it still frequently mis uses utilities and makes stuff up. I constantly have to remove dead code it makes

Sheeesh, I have same opinion, but the current market doesn't reflect that yet. Juniors are fucked, mids are low balled with salary even some seniors struggle.

good vid. im early in my career as a non-technical sales person and put the following prompt into claude a few days ago lol You're an expert career consultant with experience the best startups in the last 10 years. You're helping me think through my career. I’m a tech sales person that's non technical. I want to continue selling and improving my technical aptitude because I believe that differentiates you in this career , as most sales people are not interested or willing to learn the technical aspect. Especially with the way ai is making it so easy for people to build software , I want to be hedged well to stand out vs not only other sales people that aren’t willing to learn the tech, but also engineers that find their space ultra competitive in the coming years and decide to give tech sales a go. Can you help me think through a plan for 2025 to become more technical as a sales person? Of course, the logical approach is take a bunch of coding clases and maybe aws, but I want to optimize and learn only the information that I need as a sales person, not to actually build the tech. I just need to effectively communicate effectively with technical people. Some Areas that arein interest for me as a sales person are fintech and Dev products. Example companies that I’d like to work for are

I switched from IT to cybersecurity SE during the pandemic. The base alone was about a 40% raise and then about a year or so later they added a comp plan which effectively ended up being another 10-15% raise. I had no familiarity with sales and little knowledge around cybersecurity. I'm surprised I got the job tbh. I'm about 2.5 years into it and the gig is still fully remote. It can be stressful (for many of the reasons you mentioned), but it has been great career experience so far. I'm not sure what my next step should be, but it feels like I need to take another leap soon. I have thought about entrepreneurship, and frankly I wouldn't even know where to begin; but I imagine it would just be a similar process of stumbling around and falling on my face. I'm doing that already - perhaps I should be leveraging those failures/lessons to grow my own business.

didn’t expect the title lmao. I’ve been wanting to get into sales engineering simply because I’ve been working in audit and seriously struggling with doing receptive task all day (the role was my in to the tech world) and want to do a role with reasonable human interaction. You said to get into software dev, program management, or product management. Tbh would want to, my best mate is a product manager, but these things are so competitive that I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect I can get one of these roles. Sales Engineering is maybe flexible enough to go for product management or AE roles later, so it seemed like a smart option. Guess I am looking for confirmation.

lmao I feel like an imposter everyday because I feel criminally under qualified in every role that I get, hope that one day I actually feel like an expert on something in demand

agree completely . enjoying your rants Evan

At the time, what factors do you think led you to say Yes vs No? Were there any similarities (financial/personal constraints) that led to say Yes vs No? I'm asking these questions to figure out ways to avoid such mistakes (unless saying No was/is not a practical option)

Thanks for the video! Really some nice honest reflections on tech sales. Side note: what breed is your dog? It’s super cute 😊

talk more about how to put yourself in a position where you are more leveraged

thank you, Evan! Much appricated.

Your content is really cool, honest and to the point. Keep it real!

this is spot on and is rampant in software development WHERE if you actually took huge chunks of PTO (you know actually used the benefit) you'd get shit canned ...

Cheers!! Let's get to a thousand subscribers 💪 oh, and have a great New Year Evan!! 🎉