• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Hah, no, but I’m good otherwise.

    Talking to friends about starting one of my own ideas, reached an age where digging through the dirt is still fun, but I think I should be doing more.

    Thanks for the concern :) , I rarely join startups because I think they have a chance to succeed, it’s just the only place you can get stuff done and have a good time, big companies are… Horrifying :( Google might have been the worst.

    I need to get off my ass really.

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        29 days ago

        Haha, those co-founders got fairly well screwed, but startups are a bit like a lottery ticket to me: huge risk, pretty decent potential reward.

        The only difference is if you’re careful, you come out having learned things.

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      29 days ago

      I just started a business after getting laid off from Deere, 10/10 can recommend.

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        Thanks, I am just so… silicon valley has a lot of used-car salesmen around, and I’m nervous about getting screwed over by a co-founder. Not good at the whole “don’t fuck with me” thing, either come off as a pushover or a psycho, never worked out the subtlety of a middle ground :(

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      29 days ago

      Absolutely on the whole not being able to get stuff done front. The main reason I’m quitting where I currently work is because it’s impossible to do the most basic of tasks without having 40 meetings about it and it being delayed by 6 months for no apparent reason.

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        The main reason I’m quitting where I currently work is because it’s impossible to do the most basic of tasks without having 40 meetings about it and it being delayed by 6 months for no apparent reason.

        Similar, one issue for me is that I am not great at all the modern task-tracking systems, I can do them, but they take far more energy for me than the actual work itself.

        And the more people I have to work with, the slower I work, I can just go by myself, but when I have to keep coordinating I just bog down and get discouraged.

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        29 days ago

        Thanks a lot for the support! I really need to get off my lazy ass.

        Social… Anything is not my strong suit, but if I can find some guys who do that good, I should be set.

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          29 days ago

          social media? like marketing/awareness? or are you talking about professional networking to find talent?

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            29 days ago

            No, like… talking and dealing with people is not my strong suit, I’m a hardcore engineer to the point of autism :(

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                Chip architecture/design, etc. Was AI, but also supercomputers in the past, that was fun. Current company is a bit different, but I really liked my boss during the interview, he was cool.

                Love the job, not the kind of thing you can do without kissing a lot of ass for a lot of capital.