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Why you should have a personal side project? While a 9 to 5 job offers a structured environment for learning and growth, it limits exposure to essential skills that side projects can provide. What do you learn when you do a personal side project. 1. Learning Experience: Treating pet projects as startups can teach valuable skills. 2. Self-Reliance: Side projects require handling all aspects, from design to deployment. 3. Security and Maintenance: You'll learn about security practices and maintaining a production environment. 4. Marketing Skills: Understanding branding, customer acquisition, and retention is crucial. 5. Business Knowledge: You'll gain insights into accounting, tax implications, and business structures. 6. Networking Opportunities: Side projects expand your network beyond your immediate work environment. 7. Intuition Development: Building products helps develop intuition for what works and what doesn’t. 8. Trial and Error: The best ideas often evolve significantly from their initial conception. 9. Diverse Connections: Engaging in side projects connects you with a variety of professionals and entrepreneurs. 10. Marketplaces Challenges: Managing a marketplace requires balancing the needs of both buyers and sellers. 11. Iterative Learning: Repeatedly taking projects from idea to market builds valuable experience. 12. Financial Management : You learn about managing finances and tax advantages as a business owner. 13. Broader Skill Set: Side projects help develop a wider range of skills than a traditional job.

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Company, Inc, you will be required to: 1    truly love the SDLC and agile story t-shirt poker points 2    provide company-wide daily status updates on all your work from the previous day and describe what you plan to do in the next 6 hours 3    write our application (react, vue, typescript, node, python, react, rust, go) 4    maintain our existing applications (php, ruby, c) 5    optimize all new code and refactor all existing code for maximum performance 6    support customers directly who have application problems 7    support other employees who don’t know how computers work 8    deploy new infrastructure (aws, docker, containers, kubernetes, swarm, terraform, lambda, eventbridge, step functions) 9    monitor and optimize cost efficiency of all aws usage 10   maintain existing infrastructure (aws, docker, api gateway, dynamodb, mysql, elasticsearch) 11   create and maintain and monitor all CI/CD pipelines (github, aws) 12   guarantee infrastructure is always running (on-call 24/7 3 weeks per month) 13   guarantee infrastructure and application logic is always logged and monitored and alerted and observable 14   perform routine capacity planning 15   be responsible for application security 16   be responsible for security of all application dependencies (npm, pip, ubuntu, container images) 17   be responsible for security of all infrastructure (SOC-2 demands it) 18   conduct code reviews 3 to 10 times per day 19   mentor peers 20   manage yourself and manage your peers, but you also have an engineering manager and a project manager and the CEO is your skip-level manager and the CEO’s brother is also your skip-level manager too 21   code all the time and manage your own performance 22   continuously document everything so we can replace you with outsourced contractors at any time 23   monitor and maintain all 37 javascript SaaS plugins our website uses to track every user click and record mouse movement without the user’s knowing consent (plus the marketing and product teams enjoy adding 3 new javascript plugins to the website every month, so you must add them immediately when somebody requests it through a ticket without doing any technical evaluation on the 3rd party scripts or checking fitness for purpose or even if we could replicate the behavior in-house with less than 4 hours effort) 24   be grateful for this job and truly appreciate the opportunity to make $300/day in this role because we are all a family here at Company, Inc. (until the next round of snap overnight layoffs at least) like, my dude, your single job requirements are actually 5 entire departments worth of work to be shared across a total of 20 people.

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