knoblauch

He's currently high on breathing and hallucinating a bit, don't worry too much.

Who needs an empire when every citizen has a kingdom in their dream world? ;) Hadn't heard about those book though, will look into Moorcock.

Thanks for catching that!

Thanks for your answer! OSM is awesome, I use OsmAnd+ and have just discovered Organic Maps recently. I still haven't found a project that can do what I'm looking for, after trying uMap, Mapotic, RideWithGPS, Maps.me, mapy.cz, Bing Maps, MapQuest, Organic Maps,and others. So I might try and hack together a custom solution with KML export/upload.

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Obviously, this career switch would be a great opportunity for me to move into the back-end world, learn a lot of new stuff, broaden my SE skills, build a better CV and invest in my future.

There are many arguments that I can find on my side to find it disgraceful and why they shouldn't decrease my salary. I feel I shouldn't even have to defend my salary in the first place in this situation, as decreasing my salary is a bit of a low blow.

Some notes: - The startup has a lot of cash - We are ~20 software engineers - I am quite confident that I could earn more than my current salary with my experience if I moved to a bigger city in my country - The other juniors didn't have more professional experience when they were hired, and don't have a better education - I absolutely love the the project, and the other employees, our culture, and the office - Even if I do accept now, I don't know why they'd want to do this to me when they know I am not happy with the situation, as their are making me lose some of my loyalty to the company, taking the risk that I'll leave when I get enough experience on back-end

I feel like they are forcing the pay cut on me, after promising me a switch, then promising there wouldn't be any salary change.

HN, shed light on my situation and tell me what you think.