I appreciate the sympathy as well as the reply, and I hope your son is doing alright.
Unrelated question, is he based? if so, super cool, love to see folks my age catching on :D
But unfortunately moving in with my parents is not really an option as of current, my job (software developer) has me in a different city entirely.
They’re about 3 hours away, which lets me see them often enough on some weekends, but for a twice daily commute that would be hell lol.
I think my ideal outcome is to find/land a remote job (they live in a small town without any real tech presence so in person isn’t gonna work), and make the move back home then, but that’s also pretty idealistic.
Super glad to hear that! nothing disheartens me more than seeing parents and children pitted against each other because of the woke mind virus. Fortunately there’s none of that in my family either.
As for coding, I’m all over the place. Web/Application dev with big data implications is where I tend to lean for work, but I have a ton of passion/fun projects that aren’t that.
In my current role, we use .NET pretty heavily, with all the bells and whistles that are EF and what not.
Few projects I’ve completed in my current role to give you an idea of what I actually do:
Designed/dev’d an android tablet application (.NET MAUI) to act as an assistant to in store employees (where to stock what items, important safety documents, and one I’m quite proud of… a dedicated chatbot (gpt-4o) that users can query corporate policy against that’s actually quite accurate and helpful thanks to Microsoft Foundry.
Made a sort of “version control” we call it, a windows service that allows us to manage and push applications/updates that we develop to any site remotely.
Made an app to ship our data from onsite via SFTP to a server in our corp office for dissemination to our third party partners, this doesn’t sound impressive but it’s tens of millions of rows a day and very fault tolerant.
there’s a ton more, I could genuinely talk about it all day, but I don’t want to bore you to death.
but honestly? I have a burning and fiery passion for software dev, it’s insanely fun to me (I know I’m a nerd), and always love learning and doing more, so I’m not really tied down to where I’m at coding wise currently.
What about yourself, fren? What kind of coding do you do? Any tips for a young blood like me?
i tried the whole, living with parents whilst you save thing, and here i still am at 34 with a deposit barely big enough to cover a house on a single income in greater london sharing a small house with the ol' maternal birthing parent... :(
I'm sorry about that. I have a son about your age that's in the same situation.
Is living with your parents while you save a possibility?
I appreciate the sympathy as well as the reply, and I hope your son is doing alright.
Unrelated question, is he based? if so, super cool, love to see folks my age catching on :D
But unfortunately moving in with my parents is not really an option as of current, my job (software developer) has me in a different city entirely.
They’re about 3 hours away, which lets me see them often enough on some weekends, but for a twice daily commute that would be hell lol.
I think my ideal outcome is to find/land a remote job (they live in a small town without any real tech presence so in person isn’t gonna work), and make the move back home then, but that’s also pretty idealistic.
Tough times for sure.
Yeah, he’s pretty based, thankfully. This wouldnt work if he had TDS, ya know?
What kind of coding do you do? I’ve been in the industry for 25 years, lots of remote jobs available. Perhaps I can help?
Super glad to hear that! nothing disheartens me more than seeing parents and children pitted against each other because of the woke mind virus. Fortunately there’s none of that in my family either.
As for coding, I’m all over the place. Web/Application dev with big data implications is where I tend to lean for work, but I have a ton of passion/fun projects that aren’t that.
In my current role, we use .NET pretty heavily, with all the bells and whistles that are EF and what not.
Few projects I’ve completed in my current role to give you an idea of what I actually do:
Designed/dev’d an android tablet application (.NET MAUI) to act as an assistant to in store employees (where to stock what items, important safety documents, and one I’m quite proud of… a dedicated chatbot (gpt-4o) that users can query corporate policy against that’s actually quite accurate and helpful thanks to Microsoft Foundry.
Made a sort of “version control” we call it, a windows service that allows us to manage and push applications/updates that we develop to any site remotely.
Made an app to ship our data from onsite via SFTP to a server in our corp office for dissemination to our third party partners, this doesn’t sound impressive but it’s tens of millions of rows a day and very fault tolerant.
there’s a ton more, I could genuinely talk about it all day, but I don’t want to bore you to death.
but honestly? I have a burning and fiery passion for software dev, it’s insanely fun to me (I know I’m a nerd), and always love learning and doing more, so I’m not really tied down to where I’m at coding wise currently.
What about yourself, fren? What kind of coding do you do? Any tips for a young blood like me?
i tried the whole, living with parents whilst you save thing, and here i still am at 34 with a deposit barely big enough to cover a house on a single income in greater london sharing a small house with the ol' maternal birthing parent... :(
I’m very sorry to hear that friend. I hope and pray that your situation improves. For you and the true locals of London.
Everything I see from that side of the pond is just absolutely gutting lately.
Thanks. It's real bad out here.