[HN Gopher] Share Your Results of 2021
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Share Your Results of 2021
Hi All. I can start: 1. I lost my uncles and grandma :( 2. I got
a promotion at work 3. I did workouts regularly, started running
4. I rewrote and updated my personal project 5. I started to learn
Go and Rust
Author : zeronull
Score : 35 points
Date : 2021-12-30 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
| ipiz0618 wrote:
| I rewrote and updated my personal project too!
|
| Apart from that, I:
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| Worked out consistently
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| Moved out alone
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| Got a job in a promising industry (though I still don't like
| working)
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| Still doing quite bad in some areas I want to improve, like
| investing, be more organised, playing music, etc.
|
| Got my friend's kindle but didn't read even a fraction of what
| I've read in 2020
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| Overall, I'm progressing, albeit slowly.
| Mattasher wrote:
| 1. We moved from Ontario to Florida
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| 2. My podcast The Filter was pick up on terrestrial radio as well
| (KeysTalk FM)
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| 3. I filmed the first season of a TV show featuring long-form
| conversations, see https://www.pbs.org/show/mattasher-show/
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| 4. My wife is pregnant
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| 2021 was an extraordinary year.
| fruzz wrote:
| Congrats on all of these, but especially #4 :)
|
| As a fellow Ontarian, what attracted you to Florida? The
| weather? Job opportunity?
| NotAnOtter wrote:
| 1. I went from $150k -> $250k TC when I entered FAANG
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| 2. I became engaged and am part way through the deposit on a
| wedding venue
|
| 3. My house value grew from ~550k -> $750k
|
| 4. I had several pets die and adopted several more (we adopt
| elder dogs)
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| 5. I went on 6 trips of various sizes (2-7 days each depending on
| trip)
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| 6. I kicked out all my room mates and now have a 5 bedroom home
| for me, my fiance, my dogs, and future kids
| ryanchants wrote:
| - Changed jobs. Same salary, waaayyy better work-life balance.
| Though I'm not sure I like working for the larger company and I'm
| considering going back to a small start-up
|
| - Stayed sane considering it's been two years of pandemic
| loneliness
|
| - Read fairly consistently
|
| - Worked out fairly consistently
| chuckdotis wrote:
| My condolences for your loss. Congrats on 2 through 5.
|
| 1. I started a new job digital marketing job making the most
| money I've ever made
|
| 2. I read 14 books (my goal for 2021 was 12 - I've never read
| that many in a single year ever).
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| 3. I started training BJJ again after 1.5 year break because of
| the pandemic.
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| 4. I started blogging/writing again after an ~8 year break.
|
| From personal experience, writing down a handful of goals at the
| beginning of the year, I find that I'm far more likely to follow
| through with them.
| LinkSake wrote:
| Was it hard to write again after the long break? What did you
| did to gain momentum again?
| chuckdotis wrote:
| I was never much of a writer, but I find that writing down
| ideas I'm not only better able to articulate them verbally,
| but I'm able to better make sense of them.
|
| In terms of momentum, I spent a month forcing myself to write
| everyday with the goal of writing two sentences for something
| I was working. Some days I wasn't feeling up to it so I just
| wrote the two sentences, but oftentimes it was much more than
| two sentences.
| pvinis wrote:
| can I quickly say this is a lovely post? thanks OP.
|
| 1. I had to move _to_ the UK for work because of brexit. I now
| realize I don 't like London and I'll probably move away. that
| sucked.
|
| 2. I had a big, impactful relationship that broke. I am not over
| it yet, it's been really hard. that was amazing and later sucked.
|
| 3. I got into crypto way more. it's fun, and I'm learning stuff,
| from how these work to making contracts etc. I made my own token,
| made my own nfts, cool stuff. that was fun.
|
| 4. I traveled A LOT. It started because I wanted to avoid being
| in London, and I spent a lot of time outside the country. that
| was great for traveling, slightly bad because I had no "home
| base" for a while this year.
|
| 5. made a bunch of keyboards, played a bunch of games and matches
| online with friends, realized remote work works for me, slept in
| a castle, slept in a windmill, drove a Sinclair, gained some
| weight, tried to make some art.
|
| all in all, a hard, strange, fun, tiring year.
| knarkmacka wrote:
| Learned perl back in 2008 and I've written a gazillion lines of
| it ever since. This year was finally the year where it landed me
| my (I think!) dream job. The new work has forced me to learn:
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| - SQL and database integration
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| - Template Toolkit
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| - How to debug a very large and complicated web product; the
| dev/test/debug cycle is not like anything I've ever experienced
| before, writing libraries and cli applications.
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| - Javascript
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| - The concept of async programming
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| - That I can function together with other people at a physical
| workplace and that I might be better at what I do than what I've
| thought for these past four months since I started.
| atsushin wrote:
| Sorry for your loss, OP. :( I:
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| 1. Started reading books again. Haven't finished any of them but
| I'm well into them and try to read as often as time can allow
|
| 2. Finished my master's degree
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| 3. Started a backend development job, which, while it isn't the
| field I'm trying to be in, is very interesting and satisfying
|
| 4. Got my sleeping habits in order again
|
| 5. Made decent progress in learning Japanese
| jackfruit2 wrote:
| 1. Learnt a great deal of C++.
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| 2. Started a serious side project (6 months every day apart from
| xmas day lol).
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| 3. Paid off my mortgage.
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| 4. Got promoted at work.
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| 5. Started weight training again.
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| 6. Paid off one my credit cards.
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| mrpadie wrote:
| 1. I got married to my best friend. My wife and I had been dating
| for 8 years already! We met in high school, and started dating in
| university.
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| 2. We bought our first freestanding house with our own little
| garden.
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| 3. I learned the basics of gardening ;)
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| 4. We adopted our first cats as a couple.
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| 5. I quit my job to start a blend of freelancing and building on
| my own SaaS ideas. I look forward to sharing a Show HN post in
| the coming months!
|
| PS: my condolences to you, OP.
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| Edit: formatting
| LinkSake wrote:
| My condolences OP, I:
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| - Got a new job that pays a living wage.
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| - Got engaged.
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| - Started to blog and began to blog for a open source advocate
| platform.
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| - Learned Ruby on Rails and loved it!
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| - After 2+ years of therapy I was finally discharge.
|
| Was a hard year tbh, but I'm starting to get some positive
| momentum on my life.
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| Edit: Formatting.
| fruzz wrote:
| 1. I spent time with my bff. I spent time with my dad. Time with
| loved ones is what I value most in life; I'm glad I got some good
| memories. :)
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| 2. I got a job as a backend senior eng; I went from making $65K
| to $102K a year.
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| 3. I did two trips: Maldives & Newfoundland.
| tcbasche wrote:
| - Moved 15000ish km to a different continent / hemisphere
|
| - Bought a house
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| - Got a great job working with awesome people
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| - Wife had a kid
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| - Finally grokked functional programming
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| Although sadly I read a lot less this year than last. I guess a
| lot of big stuff happened this year ...
| poletopole wrote:
| Sorry for your loss. I learned Rust back in 2020, but decided to
| take a 2 year break from the industry, so haven't used it yet.
| kreetx wrote:
| What's your break if one may ask?
| giantg2 wrote:
| Multiple family medical issues. Bad rating are work with an
| effective 4.7% pay cut.
|
| Edit: Really, down voting my troubles...
| jason2323 wrote:
| That's tough, I hope you push through and brighter things come
| your way.
| masterof0 wrote:
| 4.7% cut, or did you loose the chance of a 4.7% increase?
| Didn't know companies can cut your salary for a bad perf
| review.
| giantg2 wrote:
| It's an effective cut. 1.5% increase minus 6.2% inflation.
| xwx wrote:
| Sorry to hear about that.
|
| I doubt it makes you feel any better, but isn't that an
| effective cut of 4.4%?
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| As a starting point, original pay was 100% of original pay.
| A year later, the same amount in real terms is, in nominal
| terms, 106.2% of the original amount (at 6.2% interest).
| But, if you're being paid 101.5% of the original amount, in
| nominal terms, then in real terms you're being paid
| (101.5/106.2) = 0.9557... of the original amount. Which is
| about a 4.4% cut in real terms.
| deanmoriarty wrote:
| I am truly fascinated by your comment. I have to ask,
| what was the mental process that brought you to write it?
|
| I am specifically wondering why a person would write such
| a pedantic (in my opinion, no offense whatsoever)
| comment, stated with absolute seriousness.
|
| Is this just an instance of "someone is factually wrong
| on the Internet and I _have_ to correct them", or were
| you really thinking there would be a chance that the OP
| would feel better as a result of your observation?
| giantg2 wrote:
| I mean, even though it made me feel even more shitty, it
| was a good reminder that I made raw common mistake of
| subtracting two percentages vs dividing to form the new
| percentage. I should have known better.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Ok
| Zealotux wrote:
| Got a new job after a few months of struggle, moved to a city I
| enjoy, got my side project up and running, a few hundred users, a
| few even paying for it, went back to therapy, doing better, got
| myself 2 green plants and gave them name, they're still alive so
| far.
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| Sorry to hear about your loss OP. Congrats to everyone who pushed
| through this year.
| luhego wrote:
| 1.Got a job at a FANG company after 4 tries.
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| 2.Got married.
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| 3.I paused a master in CS.
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| 4.I failed my weight loss goals
| teetertater wrote:
| Sorry for your loss OP, I also lost a family member :(
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| This year I:
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| 1. Started a new job in a new country after waiting a long time
| for visa stuff
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| 2. Began building a couple side projects in public (twitter
| mostly)
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| 3. Did a lot of lego technic stuff and made videos about it
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| 4. Made some good friends
| MH15 wrote:
| 1. Completed my first real internship at a large "tech" company
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| 2. Started my most advanced side project (a programming
| language). I've been working on it consistently since March.
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| 3. Started reading books again.
| gremlinsinc wrote:
| 1. Struggled immensely w/ depression..
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| 2. Maybe had a midlife crisis - at the least I went crazy for a
| few months after seeing a 'glitch in the matrix' that had me
| convinced we're in a simulation, that the universe is one
| conscious thing and we're just dreams, or many worlds is true and
| we travel between them somehow...went down many occult and
| mandela effect rabbit holes.... trying to shift/change/alter
| reality all to no avail...finally came back to reality deciding
| better to just live w/ what I know is at least as real as I can
| fathom.
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| Donald Hoffman has some sound theories on simulation being the
| likeliest scenario, but has stated that those who don't know
| they're part of the simulation apparently have an evolutionary
| advantage over those who do...
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| Which is to say CEOs make more than Philosophers and
| Spiritualists ...which could be akin to "winning" i guess
| depending how you look.
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| 3. Found a client I love working for, but the work is a little
| sparse, and my anxiety/depression has been really demotivating.
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| 4. Forced to move because landlord sold our house.
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| 5. Dreamed up an idea to buy land and build a homestead, and
| tiny-home eco-village, as well as glamping sites.... WIP -- needs
| funding. It'll be between Zion National Park and Grand Canyon
| likely if I ever get the $$ for land.
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| 6. Learned more react, and vue composition api, and laravel
| livewire.
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| 7. Started a co-op, but backburnered it for a few to work out
| logistics on our first project. Not sure if my team is still w/
| me or has moved on.
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| 8. Watched a lot of ADHD videos to try and solve my ADHD - I've
| got meds, but this has just been a hard year.
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| 9. Applied to 100 jobs in July...didn't get hired. PHP/Laravel
| Mid-to-Senior dev w/ experience w/ Vue, React, Remix.run, rust,
| etc.. Learned how much I hate interviews decided to table that
| for a bit and continue freelancing and maybe I'll just set a more
| reasonable 1-2 interview/month schedule...
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| 10. Keep wanting to get into consulting, I'm very good at
| comparison shopping platforms, open source products, SaaS
| products, etc to fulfill niche needs, I just don't know where to
| pitch it to, or how to move out of development to consulting.
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| 11. Decided I'm way underpayed and need to start renegotiating
| contracts and raising rates from $40/hour to maybe $60/hour or
| more.
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| Goals for 2022:
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| 1. Rededicate myself to fitness, as i think that'll help balance
| some mental health stuff. 2. Refocus on my co-op. 3. Find the
| financing for land for my eco-village/intentional
| community/glamping camp. 4. Build an ERP for co-ops that manages
| different types of point systems for rewards, voting power,
| etc...points to be awarded based on hours, volunteer time, money
| spent in stores, referrals, etc... and highly configurable by the
| SaaS tenant. It'll also feature front-facing portals for common
| business types (restaurants, e-commerce shops, etc).
| mmohtasim wrote:
| 1. I started a job as a data scientist
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| 2. I found the love of my life.
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| 3. I found my long lost joy from studying/learning new things.
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