Bolt Financial's loans come due

Re:Bolt Financial's loans come due by icelancer on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:19PM (#31520213)

>> How can fellow SWEs who learnt about kernels, networks and hardware (among other incredibly complicated works) get excited about ONE CLICK CHECKOUT?

I'd be willing to bet like 80-90% of SWEs are just people who write code 9-5, have little passion for the job, and just collect paychecks like most people in America. HN and Slashdot and so forth provide a very skewed view on our profession.

So when Bolt offers people over-market wages for skills writing JS/PHP and some basic database stuff... a four day work week... strong culture of "doing enough" (aka Fried's mantra at Basecamp), why not take it? It's just a job to them.

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Re:Bolt Financial's loans come due by Apocryphon on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:01PM (#31520739)

I had a former coworker who has a doctorate in physics with an emphasis in nuclear engineering, then a masters in CS. She ended up coding Rails at a startup because it paid better. The market demands its CRUD.

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Re:Bolt Financial's loans come due by walleeee on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:45PM (#31521299)

hopefully the dip we're toppling into will do a number on this kind of incentive

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