I got hung up around country 55, feeling that I hadn't found my "editing voice" and have had difficulty finding the motivation over the last year to edit and post my most recent 41 countries worth of content. I want to say that part of it is because I'm overwhelmed with how much there is to go through? I also get in my head and have to consistently reassure myself that I'm ultimately editing this for my future self/family to watch, and that I shouldn't necessarily be optimizing for viewership (though passive income through travel vlogs would be nice.)
There's a definitive, "what's up brand gang, immranderson here!" blueprint that could be followed, but I have no interest in ever doing something like that.
Hello! I'm an Engineer with a decade of mobile engineering experience attempting to bootstrap my own startup. Over the last several months, I have picked Elixir and Phoenix as my stack of choice. However, it's my first time ever building out a server-side application. Since it's only me at the moment and I'm new to this side of the engineering world, I'm looking for a mentor of sorts who wouldn't mind guiding me on architectural decisions, high level technical talks on how I should implement features, helping me out by reviewing my PRs, and acting as a general "guiding hand" so I can build out something robust, maintainable, and secure.
I had heard a while back that the typical turnaround time for a Bay Area based Software Engineer in a startup averages 6-9 months. I feel like, according to anecdotal evidence, this has been somewhat accurate for myself and other people I have worked with -- why stick around when you can hop over to the next company and get a 5-15 percent pay raise? I realized, though, that I didn't have any...