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I quit my FAANG job yesterday to join a fully remote company. I took a >50% pay cut but I think it is a 100% life saver. I remember spending 3-4 hours/day commuting and I am just not willing to do that any more. I've cut back on expenses and simplified my life, built up some savings so I can make do with less. My retirement savings will slow down dramatically, but if I don't hate my work life then those savings will be less of an all-consuming goal.

Thank you senior leadership for your wisdom, "If you don't like it, find another place to work". The first good advice I've heard from them in 5 years.

Enterprises are moving more and more workloads to cloud, and they tend to have 70-80% Windows OSes on their virtual server workloads. With Microsoft's licensing constraints it is a very real barrier to them choosing any cloud except Azure, and this is a multi-trillion dollar market space, larger than the current hyperscalers combined.

You can have training repayment and non-disclosure clauses in contracts, leaving cost recovery and legal remedies for employers.

Takee your investment industry example - a non-compete could prevent you from taking a lucrative position in a competitor of your current employer, doing completely unrelated work like writing software for their settlement system. I would rather have the freedom to choose where I work.

Call the police? I don't need two problems.

Sure, you can't remove all risk, but you can reduce it and reduce the risk of unexpected firefighting work. You can implement rolling or blue/green deployments that roll-back on failure. The key is being able to identify failures, which means having meaningful canaries to identify issues. Those canaries can also improve your operational awareness so they aren't just a deployment investment.

If you don't deploy on Friday then you lose 20% of your deploy opportunity. If you only deploy once or twice a week, then sure - choose Monday/Wednesday or something, but if you deploy more frequently then improve your deployment safety.

Billions of dollars in investments that will partially benefit lawmakers?

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Because as part of the VC investment, they are also taking positions on the board of your company. Maybe enough of a position that they can oust you if you don't do as they "suggest". Also, one round of funding is rarely the end of it, and if you are demonstrating that you are not playing their game and trying to become a Unicorn, then you will not get a second round of funding.

Why do you think VC control is bullshit?

Or ever again? I deleted Apollo from my phone last night, and I haven't had a bookmark for their awful website in years. Any future visits would be misclicks, just like birdsite.

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Yes, that is exactly what it means.

Totally agree. I can't make more time, and I zealously protect my personal time. I want more of it.

I stopped doing side jobs years ago, when I realized that the money wasn't enough to get my mind in that groove, let alone go somewhere and do something for someone. Now I'm getting to the point where I question if my FAANG salary is enough to justify 40 hours/week.

Extra length is required to get past the extra padding on both sides, so only longer members will successfully reproduce without mechanical assistance in the Buy N Large future.