I got a new job and finally getting ready to move out of my parents' house, but my god rent is comically expensive where I'm at (like everywhere else). There aren't many places to look for roommates outside of craigslist (which I'm trying to avoid). It's looking like I might have to spend close to 40% of my paycheck to afford a 500 sq foot studio
They say you throw away communism when you get your first salaried job, but I think it's making me a third world maoist. Fuck all landlords
Lol no, fuck no. Never. Lol. Lmao. I've subsidized so many landlords to the tune of tens of thousands and most of what I actually own is hand-me-downs and secondhand stuff, but not much in the way of savings.
Anyway the material facts of capitalist-imperialism (exploitation, alienation, profligacy, infinite growth on a finite planet, economic instability, antidemocracy, etc) are still true regardless of your position in the hierarchy.
So when people tell you that your politics inevitably change the moment you get your first real job, what they're really doing is showing their whole ass and demonstrating that their worldview was always only purely self-serving.
For your last part: it's funny, I only get a deeper shade of red the longer I keep working. When I spend my money I think "this cost 5 hours of my life"
we're being ripped off everyday but there's not one fucking thing that we can do about it
I can't even get financial advice that isn't capitalist in nature for crying out loud
All i can tell you is ive spent 40% or more of my paycheck on apartments for most of my adult life
I'm paying close to 50% with three craigslist rando roommates lol (but they're Marxists so it's chill!)
Did you just request marxist roommates on craigslist or was it luck
I was very explicit about being a leftist when replying to ads! But I live in a huge city so I was lucky to be able to be picky
Best I ever managed was 38%, to get it I lived an hour+ away from my office by bus+train and i Learned2Code
if there's an actual course or something called learn2code (not just a meme) that isn't what i did, i studied computer science in college — but yeah i do make a lot of money especially compared to my friends in other fields. I dont think software engineering is particularly hard especially if you like puzzles and systemic problem solving and have a high tolerance for slowly being driven insane from spending every day either gazing into the abyss or building things that don't physically exist except as an arrangement of electrons across a piece of silicon in an amazon datacenter in oregon
I don't think I've used any calculus since I completed calc 3 ten years ago, unless you count "knowing what derivatives are so you can click the "derivative" button on the disk space monitor and understand you're getting the rate of the disk filling up" as calculus lol. Yeah the math stuff is a little painful but there really isn't much of it in most software jobs and you can succeed without knowing/remembering it
How important is it to learn Data structures and Algorithms if I wanna land a job?
That's one of the more important ones I'd say — in particular because many technical interviews are focused on DS&A.
For practical purposes in my experience as long as you have a sense of what's going to be slow in your program and you know how to use a hash (aka hashmap or dictionary) and an array (aka list) and know what a binary tree is you'll do just fine on most jobs.
I've never sat down and tried to figure out the big-O notation of anything I've been paid to write — it doesn't matter cause the slowest thing is always going to be a web request or an expensive database query, and that's going to be true for basically any web engineering jobs (which are the plurality if not majority of jobs these days)
have a sense of what’s going to be slow in your program
How do I get this sense? Practice?
I've looked at like 3 apartments this week for 50% - 60% of my paycheck (not that I make any money anyway) and all of them have been clearly run by slumlords. Like, I want to move out of my parents' house, but I also don't want rats walking all over me while I sleep. I do feel bad for the people living in these places though.
I still live my parents at early 30s man. I refuse to rent cause of how bullshit it is. I was finally in a position to looking into actually being able to buy a place right before covid hit. Now I'm just waiting for the whole god damn market to crash cause housing prices are almost as fucked as rent is now. Fuck I hate this shit hole country.
It's so fucking ridiculous, and I can't even put it into words. I have no idea how there hasn't been a mass uprising against landlords, and i am starting to think I'll never see it
Naw, it's like half. Throw power and internet on top and bills are most of the money
You can steal from self checkouts pretty easy by just “accidentally” forgetting to scan items in your cart. This works best with smaller more expensive items. Just put what you bag on top to cover them up, then if you get busted, which is unlikely anyways, you can easily say you didn’t see them and it would be a plausible explanation as long as you don’t get too greedy and make it obvious. I used to do this when I was unemployed for a time, and was often able to shave at least 20% off the grocery bill.
Cameras don't really matter, no one is watching them and they aren't gonna look over tapes to catch shoplifters
I dunno. The one I steal from owes some serious fucking bread money to me and everyone else in the country anyway, thanks Mayor Pete.
Even in a cheap cost of living area with a decent job, starting out I had to toss about 35-40% of my monthly into rent
Yea, but 10 years of rent control in a 1 bedroom apartment. We have a baby, and getting a 2 bed in the city we live in would mean going over 30% :mao-shining:
Yup, 10% in a little Midwestern town where the land lord's have yet to figure out that businesses had to raise their wages to get workers in the door.
This is exceptionally rare though.
~35%, but that's with a big discount for living in company housing. If I was renting "market rate" it'd be closer to 60%.
Lol yeah, and then my coworkers ask why I'm so radical. Gee, it's really a mystery? :mao-aggro-shining:
