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HAHAHAH OMG... now I have to read it.

@SFTP "here are all my thoughts on the subject in one place so that I don't have to remember them any more".

... and so that others may benefit from them...

Ah, sorry.

I'm not actually sure... the OP of the question used it first... Maybe an eggcorn for "cobble together"?

@JeremyBanks I don't know... the two really negative comments you have are both about the pay for flair.

I don't understand why I keep getting upvotes and you keep getting down.

idk about hats

The dupe is at -8 now...

but if se had one of those t-shirt subscriptions where they send you a shirt every month, I'd buy two of them in bulk

:D

The SE tshirt looks really nice and professional to wear to work

I'm wearing mine right now...

same

No one seems to comment on it, though.

Andy stole my Nalgene.

my boss was like "you're really a fanboy aren't you"

because I have my SE notebook, SE pen and SE waterbottle

and there's a charcoal and SE sticker on my phone, and a SE button on my backpack

Technically, the water bottle is SO... and the pen... the marker is SE.

well yeah

This is like the programmer version of having band merchandise everywhere

Oh, yay, finally a downvote. :P But four upvotes means that I'll stay in the black for a while.

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At least this time of day on Friday is pretty low-volume. :D

Good Friday, everybody!

Literally, I suppose.

@Magisch I try to sport a lot of brands who have hosted meetups and held tables at the conferences I go to when I'm at work. I like it to be known that I do get around.

@AaronHall You're a professor in NYC

What could you possibly wear that makes you come across as more worldly

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ok?

@Magisch I also work full-time in a financial services firm (Python, all day long!) so I try to get as much... synergy out of my activities as I can.

@AaronHall how do you have time for anything

I get emotionally exhausted working 8 hours a day

Emotionally? Are your co-workers really that difficult?

Oh, happy hour. Time to sleep~

@Magisch It helps to have an environment where you're respected as a knowledge worker and have specific long-term deliverables, which, as long as you deliver, you're given free rein to work on things as you prioritize them.

@Catija interacting with people irl is hard and exhausts me more then programming could

I can't lock myself in my office, I'm also data protection officer and part time sysadmin

Hats! Lots of hats!

I don't hate my coworkers, I just get easily exhausted interacting with people

Like internet better, the ten thousand nuances of an interpersonal interaction are lessened by the fact it's just chat

I think of myself as an introvert, but i'm in the 80th percentile towards extraversion...

If you clean the bathroom afterward, will the charge still be applied? :/

@YvetteColomb Was a specfici mrs colomb involved in generating the reason for that sign to be necessary?

But I have no problem not talking to anyone all day long...

I wonder how that works

@Magisch Uh... Yeah, because the utter lack of tone of voice doesn't make things more difficult at all. :P

There are thousands of nuances and signals you gotta pay attention to talking to people

It's really complicated and unintuitive for me

Yes, but when it's in chat, you can go back and dwell on it for years.

But you have time to process it

@Magisch I took a sales path in my early career, it probably serves me well in those sorts of situations.

Except that sometimes, re-reading stuff lets you re-interpret things... then you've got five different ways to interpret what they just said and you can't tell if they even like you any more.

@Catija Then again, I'm not normal in that respect

I get really bad headaches if a couple people talk at the same time

I highly recommend having the experience. Not sure if I can recommend actually getting the experience.

I get easily exhausted when talking to people for long time... either I'm an introvert, or I have a problem with my breath/lung.

I've been told I can communicate well. It's because I've had years of practice trial and erroring my way there in school

I don't enjoy it though

even with close friends face to face talking is more of a chore

I'll take face to face over the phone most days,

How different people are :D

true enough... I enjoy talking with close friends, but in the end, I'm the one who try to end the conversation because I get tired :/

Stack exchange is really nice because it's really rigid and professional in comparison to most places online

@YvetteColomb I got rid of my cell phone because the only people calling me were people I didn't want to talk to. I'm on Google voice, which I use to screen all calls.

I don't stick out like a sore thumb here

@AaronHall I guess that's a function of being in a high visibility position

@Magisch not at all, I did that before I got any sort of visibility. It's mostly people trying to get me to sell stuff to clients for a business I no longer have. I listed my cell phone in the yellow pages at one point...

listing your phone in the yellow pages is pretty visible in my book

I think that part of why I don't like phone calls is that I often times am not really interested or engaged in what the other person is saying... when I am, it's great... but half the time I'm splitting my attention and since I can't re-read what they just said, I don't really ... get good comprehension. With text-based stuff, I can ignore it for a minute and then catch up without any trouble.

SE is also nice because it allows me to continue practise english in a programming context

meaning my english doesn't suck quite as bad as it used to. Not native speaker level by any stretch but it's an advantage looking for a job for sure.

@YvetteColomb hind-sight is 20/20... but if you're an optimistic young financial advisor trying to get enough clients to pay for (cheap) groceries, you're thinking you've finally arrived...

Anyways, my cell phone would be set to vibrate. I would feel phantom vibrations at random times. It made my heart race every time, especially after the market went down around 2008. Switching to Google Voice really helped my stress levels.

... I hear random chat pings... often.

@YvetteColomb what business were you in?

@YvetteColomb ah, did you help with the carpentry?

I used to fantasize about my wife helping me by running papers all over town for clients to sign... I never had enough business though.

I'm sorry, I didn't know that.

@YvetteColomb Sorry to hear

@YvetteColomb Still, sorry to hear

Anyways, worst-case scenario would have been for me to have been marginally successful as a financial advisor and to stay at it, always on and barely surviving.

@YvetteColomb because I am?

@YvetteColomb I need to update it, I got sidetracked with a polyglot project and haven't updated it...

At least in the US, it's easier if you have graduate level credits in a relevant field, but I have a friend who lectured Python at Columbia with just an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

We're both coorganizers of a meetup that helps people learn Python, though...

classes or degrees?

1 masters degree should be more than enough, I would think. What subject is your masters in?