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Re:Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice? on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:09PM (#429471)

I didn't mean to imply that I'm 5-7 months from a funding event. I have 5-7 months left of savings. I keep hearing that funding prospects look good, but I don't know for sure because I'm not directly involved in the fundraising, which is good, because I'd probably have an aneurysm if I had to deal with that. I'd rather work on Wall Street than be trying to raise money.

Re:Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice? on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:07PM (#429465)

Can you use Clojure for the Java work? I'd only do Java projects if I could use Clojure as often as humanly possible.

Re:Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World on Sunday January 11, 2009 @10:52AM (#429221)

The mediocre, median case of the useless Web 2.0 startup founder is that he fails or exits badly and re-enters the "real economy". The median case of the financier is that he makes millions and stays in the industry for decades. Well, it was that way until 2008 happened. Now this is less clear.

Re:Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice? on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:34PM (#428639)

How do you find (decent) part-time work in technology? That may be what I have to do, but I have no idea how to go about it.

Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?

Posted by recession on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

In April, I left my job at a hedge fund. This was, admittedly, not the best time to leave a job in New York, but I needed out because the lack of purpose in my work was starting to affect my health.Even though we didn't "technically" know ourselves to be in a recession, I knew something bizarre was going on that summer. I had some really surprising rejections. I never find rejection to be...

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