accurate, af.
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So the goal is to become more self sufficient while working from home as a junior?
@nixCraft Image description:
Two job interviews, same question: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
Junior: on the computer, colorful keyboard, 4 screens, hoody.
Senior: in a garden, doing vegetable gardening.
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"If you could pick any role, what would it be?"
"Retired"
"..." 😑
@nixCraft isn’t this the plot of Stardew Valley?
@jonhuffman @nixCraft Seems to be so to me. I just got it a few days ago in the christmas sale, and im loving it. Its making me remotivated to start up my balcony garden again
@nixCraft In the recursive irony that is Real Life, I have the small farm and got headhunted to go back to IT work as a contractor.
@nixCraft speaking as an irl subsistence farmer: it's very important to have both of these people in your polycule.
@nixCraft yep, this is me and my son. He agrees.
@nixCraft I wish I could spend more time in my garden ...

@nixCraft I've been contemplating the second since my early-mid 30s. Funny how hustle culture as a single mom burned me out so quickly.

It's as if we need a better system.

@NerdRage42 @nixCraft

Nooo, how dare you make such a claim when everthing is better than ever /s

@nixCraft sometimes I want that but I've been a nerd forever and I can't not tinker with technology somehow, it's in the blood.
@Polychrome my grandpa had a whole mechanical engineering lab in his farm and loved working there just as much as taking care of the animals
@Polychrome @nixCraft
My dream is to have the second part's result, so I can work on what I want to work on in my own time. Best of both worlds in my eyes.
@nixCraft I would like to do a mix of this two. Both is exiting in its own way.
@nixCraft really like the line, who's the cartoonist?

@nixCraft not af at all.

The lower half is intermediate, not senior.

The senior sees him or herself out of that bottom-right panel, enjoying the fruits of the farmer's labor, comfortably sitting under a shaded porch.

Possibly yesterday, not in 5 years

@nixCraft the tech industry is the soul killer.
@nixCraft this just means i'm a senior with no work experience
@nixCraft Main reason why I don‘t do coding for money anymore.
@nixCraft, so true. When I interviewed for what would be my last job, I answered that question with, “I’ll still be working here, but in 10 I intend to be retired”. The HR person liked that answer. It took 13 years, but I retired from there 4 years ago.
@nixCraft think I may die coding.
@nixCraft I moved to a rural village last year and this is my patio at the moment, so yeah, accurate AF.
@nixCraft Pretty accurate considering you might already be regarded as a senior after three years of work experience.
@nixCraft Ok that hits a little close to home.
@nixCraft
So f'in accurate (so sez the Senior SW Engineer).
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boy do I relate to that.

@nixCraft too real. I've been fantasizing about digging a big hole in the backyard and making it a greenhouse.

I don't even like plants. It's just 'not technology'.

@nixCraft Wow its the balan wonderworld Farmer
@nixCraft @astraluma needs more blahaj and programmer socks
@nixCraft my current fantasy is to learn to grow mushrooms, for extra quirkiness
@nixCraft Who's the artist? I love this style
@nixCraft this is the same for anyone applying for a new job. Idk why security/dev/devops/sysadmin think it's for them.
@nixCraft Oh you are so right. This is very accurate.
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@nixCraft tbh, I love how happy they look in the 5 years later dreams
@otagi Almost… the take away coffee is clearly out of place.
@nixCraft Yeah. I'm past pension age, but the boss still has to ask me what my career ambitions are in appraisal meetings.
@nixCraft Totally agree. I was on a job interview just some weeks ago and I'm almost 60. They asked me if I had plans to continue working after 65. I told them I'll retire immediately and go for a bike ride around the world. I'm still waiting for them to call me back.
@nixCraft ok this but baking in the last pic 
@nixCraft 😆 I’ve gone so far that I’ve bought that farm.
@nixCraft Oh yes, the woman is the interviewer and the devs are dudes, pretty accurate indeed 😂😂😂. Also, did you draw this? If not, at least could you consider crediting the thing?
@nixCraft Always fancied wood working myself - that or becoming a tradesman.
@nixCraft Hmm... I see myself in a good balance of both of them