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Ask HN: What is your (team's) Git workflow?

Curious about your personal and team git workflows. How large is your team and what does your workflow from initial feature request possible code reviews to deployment? I recently ran across this article which seems to work well for me, but not sure how it will scale to my full team (about 30 devs). https://dev.to/andrew565/how-to-git-well Would love to hear about your git workflows or any...

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Re:Ask HN: Taking a few months off? on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @12:50AM (#12349748)
I will definitely check that out, thank you for the advice, too!
Re:Ask HN: Taking a few months off? on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @12:50AM (#12349747)
" I kept asking the same question but continuing to burn myself out while I considered what to do." -This is exactly how I feel right now and fear I am headed towards blowing up at my current job because I am just so overstressed. I really like these people I work with and think I need some time away in order to salvage the relationships. Thank you so much for solid advice, you description is spot on to where I am at now and where I want to be.

Thank you!

Re:Ask HN: Taking a few months off? on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:04PM (#12349402)
Thank you for your reply, I could go 4-5 months without burning out too much of my savings and still be left with at least a 6 month run way. I'm beginning to think that taking time off and sharpening my skill set to things that peak my interest could have more value long term. It is an interesting proposition of weighing current opportunity cost vs potential down the road.
Re:Ask HN: Taking a few months off? on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:59PM (#12349381)
Thanks for the replies, I feel pretty confident. I have about 9 years experience now and 3 full years with Node.js. I've been doing some networking recently and there seems to be a lot of opportunities in my area. I feel like to take the next step, I would really like to take some time off and tighten up my skills, learn some react (I spent a year with Angular about a year ago) and some sys admin work to really round out my understanding of the full stack and get up to date with some of the latest and greatest. I can't do that currently working 10-12 hours a day.

Financially, I think I have enough saved to continue my current lifestyle for 4-5 months and still have an additional 4-5 months of savings, but I don't think I want to be off work that long, 2-3 months tops.

I'm glad to hear others have done it and haven't had issues explaining to potential employers. It seems like having this luxury would be the best way to land a new job because interviewing can be a full time job in and of itself. In the past when I've moved jobs, I haven't been very picky, I usually jumped for new opportunities as they arose when I wasn't really looking too hard.

Ask HN: Taking a few months off?

Hello All,I currently feel the burnout from a stressful project and commute that I have been doing for about 2 years. I started as a consultant with the idea that it would be a short gig, but ended up in a leadership role. I know this is something that is not to complain about, but this opportunity has afforded me an opportunity to take a few months off before looking for another job. I want...

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