Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by herbst on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:26AM
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Quit my job to work on my own stuff. stuff i actually care about
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Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by voidz on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:01AM
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That's great. I hope it will be rewarding. It probably will be.
I've quit most of what I was doing to dedicate myself as a stay at home dad to our newborn son. Best thing ever, it's a great kid. And frankly I'm doing a pretty damn good job, better than I imagined beforehand. I know it's socially unacceptable to toot your own horn, but I just did it anyway, so ner.
Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by herbst on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:11AM
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nah man thats cool. I think every kid deserves a dad almost always at home. At least for the first time.
And sure it is rewarding, even if i dont manage to build a successfull business. I also digitalnomad what is more experience than i ever asked for.
Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by ud0 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:15AM
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care to share what it is you are working?
Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by herbst on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:25AM
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I own a few content websites that make money with adsense what is what i am living from right now. I am mostly working on more of those. One that recently frontpaged here is https://ascii.li
Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by ud0 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:31AM
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Impressive. Out of curiosity, how did you come up with so many Unicode emoticons? crowd-sourced?
Re:Ask HN: What important career choices did you make in 2016?
by herbst on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:40AM
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I wish, thats usually the issue with any of my sites. Classic chicken egg problem. I've got submitted 4 emojis in over a year now. I data mined them actually from github gists and blog posts and added a few which i thought were missing. Then i paid my little sister to do the tagging :)