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leftnode · 2010-02-04 14:39:52+00:00

Or, maybe he just likes being a librarian. It's probably a lower stress job than engineering.

Psyonic | karma 1368 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2010-11-05 00:17:21+00:00

Maybe he likes his job?

amelius | karma 42902 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2017-05-23 14:58:36+00:00

Perhaps he just likes his job?

megamark16 | karma 1593 | avg karma 3.13 · | 2010-02-04 10:29:03

My real point wasn't necessarily that he'll have job security at the library, which of course he will, but that this type of self motivated, driven, and creative person should have little trouble finding work with any company that is able to recognize the worth of those traits.

redorb | karma 1665 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2010-01-31 00:20:26+00:00

My guess is that he is hoping that the job is really that interesting.

Tichy | karma 16300 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2008-09-11 12:46:44

Because secretly he likes feeling smarter than his co-workers, and he dreads the responsibility of accomplishing something real.

a_t48 | karma 2051 | avg karma 2.02 · | 2019-07-31 07:42:28+00:00

If he’s an engineer - probably money and work life balance.

oifjsidjf | karma 617 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2022-07-18 08:36:21

I dissagree: he hates his job, that is what is producing the stress in the first place.

Otherwise he'd be happy keeping a job and having the weekends for his own projects.

But this is obviously not the case.

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aeyes | karma 2853 | avg karma 2.99 · | 2022-05-10 22:11:15

Reading the blog I would say he hasn't been working in a true engineering position for a very long time, probably some sort of engineering manager.

dedward | karma 1621 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2013-07-12 10:40:41

He's a technologist; if he's allowed to work, there is obviously work.

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2023-04-06 09:16:59

Maybe he has enough money to be comfortable and should just work on a non-profit doing database things.

CoastalCoder | karma 6391 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2023-08-15 10:55:26

I was thinking that too.

I guess another possibility is that he wants to keep some work/life balance, so he doesn't want do write software outside of work.

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jevgeni | karma 1348 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2015-10-06 13:48:04+00:00

Not his job, but I guess his career choice.

hashbanged | karma 86 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2014-06-12 04:10:31+00:00

It sounds like being a postdoc stressed him.

hrdwdmrbl | karma 337 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2024-06-13 21:04:31

I would really like to know why he continues to work a day-job. Does he enjoy writing technical documentation that much?

jredwards | karma 1037 | avg karma 4.8 · | 2014-07-15 13:00:33

He's probably still in school. The position may be related to how much time he has available to dedicate to working.

Pxtl | karma 17051 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2023-12-26 07:04:31

It's possible he's working very hard... at a different job.

skwirl | karma 2291 | avg karma 4.72 · | 2015-08-16 23:45:54

Why does he work there, then?

rcarndrums | karma 115 | avg karma 11.5 · | 2022-10-17 16:45:34

He's passionate about engineering and has a lot of energy which is why he's still working and wants to continue. I think his focus is on identity, worked for a few years before this as a support engineer for an enterprise software company which ended up moving to a different state (he liked that job a lot more). But he's had a spotty work history, taking up engineering late in life and starting his own IT company which shut down ~15 years ago.

scott_karana | karma 3540 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2014-12-01 05:19:06+00:00

No kidding. Security work aside, he finds time to take up time-intensive hobbies like CNC milling for robot parts, and has the time to write up comprehensive documents about the hobby?! (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/)

Maybe he doesn't sleep.

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