ge96
has 2269 karma and joined 10 years ago
has 2269 karma and joined 10 years ago
This is a throwaway so I can be dumb and learn stuff
Career/partial life bio
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Apr 2026
Funny since I'm a nice guy/try to please everyone, I feel bad not helping this person get to the finish line so I'm technically still in. Just sucks, mountain of work, promise of potential pay that may not happen. I was like "you think AI can do my job, go ahead and try it". This person does not value developers and I don't value myself, that's why we ended up together starting at $10/hr payments 10 years ago... I'm based in the US too so it's not like a money conversion thing. Even now best I got from him was $35/hr lmao like wtf... and we're talking infra, mobile and web development.
Well it is time I move on (from long term freelance client, current want to be start up). It's funny how insulting it is to hear "AI can do it why can't you?". They send this multi-page output from an LLM asking me to do something they don't understand. Being nice gets old. My problem is I'm a people pleaser, I'm indecisive. Hard for me to make firm decisions as I want people to like me. "I pleased them" it's dumb.
Been productive lately. I don't feel so bad staying at my current job, I'm able to coast, some days I do nothing, just watch YT and scroll... but eventually I do get bored. I'm finding myself more and more annoyed that I have to sit here and wait for 8 hours of work to end before I can do my own stuff. Quit being poor.
Previous mental samples
https://pastebin.com/7Hu0QDuR (Mar 2026) https://pastebin.com/XqQ7rStx (Jan-Feb 2026) https://pastebin.com/KYN3SpMf (2025) https://pastebin.com/5xCTbGsu (2023 - Mar 2025)