thirdtruck

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Comment · 1 month ago
We're in our early forties with no local partners and yes, compared to all the years we spent in suburbs, living here in NYC makes a tremendous positive difference. We can't overstate how much it's done for our mental health to have found community hangouts we can reach on foot in all of several minutes.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes but in-office preferred

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 2 months ago
It's been a trip hearing how much testing others have gone through. IIRC, we had all of one conversation with our psychiatrist (albeit one we had already been seeing for a while) and got our diagnosis. But then it wasn't exactly subtle ADHD.

For our autism assessment a couple months ago, our therapist (whom we've been seeing for about a year at that point?) had us take one or two relatively short multiple choice assessments or the like and that was enough to diagnose us as on the spectrum. Did you know: Not all autistics struggle with eye contact? Some of us (ourselves included) are actually pretty good at it. One reason it's called a spectrum!

The previous time with our mental health professionals factored into their diagnoses, though, not just the tests. The takeaway: Book a therapist and psychiatrist both if you don't already and get those balls rolling.

Comment · 2 months ago
Speaking as someone who only got our ADHD diagnosis in our late thirties and our autism spectrum diagnosis at forty fucking two, please consider just telling them. That could be years or decades of social, pharmacological, and even legal assistance that they deserve and need and aren't otherwise getting.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not really, actually, and not for a lack of trying very very hard at times. Even when we tried LSD the most it did was make us more aware of the actual curvature of our eyes' lenses, lessening the mental illusion of uniformity.
Comment · 2 months ago
We strongly suspect we have SDAM as well and only more so after reading your description here. Only got diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and as on the autism spectrum this year, here in our forties as well.

This whole topic fascinates us in no small part because we've gained or regained marked visualization capacity within the last year or so. Our change unequivocally correlates with our escape from and ongoing recovery from a long-term abusive relationship and all the dissociation that required of us and caused in us. That and no doubt some pharmacological assistance. It's been a wild ride, to remember having greater powers of visualization and then to come back into them.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes but in-office preferred

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 4 months ago
Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 5 months ago
Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 7 months ago
Is the job listing URL correct? Getting a 404.
Comment · 8 months ago
Your careers page says that you are not actively hiring for the positions listed above. Is this correct?
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: [email protected]

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