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Why people always say this? In my team we have never missed an estimate of what we have planned. I also don't remember it in other projects where team does take time for planning. What is so hard that people find estimating their work?
I don't know, but could be. Anecdotally all my friends were taking anti-depressants at some points for their life, including me. But not because they struggled with sever depression, but because of "stress" in life. I used to fallback to antidepressants when I had struggles at work, relationships, etc. Just go to a doctor and say you feel sad and not motivated, and you have a prescription.
I don't do it anymore. I think depression exists, but what I have had wasn't depression, and I could have resolved it without drugs with tons of side effects.
It's like giving aspirin to people without headache, and claim that aspirin does not work.
Apart from that, if you go in a traditional uni (which is not my case, I do online degree at Open University of UK), you also have great networking opportunities.
Not saying about other subjects, like medicine, physics, biology where you need access to a lab to learn something.
Everyone says you don't need degree, but in my experience if you want to do advanced stuff (machine learning, cryptography, algorithms) you probably need one, unless you are extremely talented and can pick up everything on your own.
You probably don't need degree if you want to work as SWE in mid-tier companies, once you have experience there are no problems with finding jobs.
But yeah, I started sending my CV already.
In my company it means you can take the time off whenever you want, but we are understaffed, so if you take time off the whole project will be stopped and we won't raise money. But of course you can take vacation as much as you want.
So for the last 2 years I have had max 3 consecutive days off (and only once). I will never buy bs "unlimited PTO" again.