What a promotion
The ride of a lifetime
Submitted 9 hours ago by slaacaa@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I had decades of tech experience including Linux administration. I now have a homestead with geese.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So cool. Are they interactive? Do they recognize you and let you pet them?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Depending on the time of year they will dodge or attack me. So they are very interactive. My wife can pet them.
We got them because hawks were taking out chickens. After we got geese that stopped. In addition to being excellent guard animals they also mow the grass and in the spring they give us giant eggs.
After the initial cost to buy, raise for a month until they can be outside and their housing they can live entirely on grass making them practically free to maintain. Best farm investment ever.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I built and sold an MSP, now I farm grain and cattle. If anything, I work even more, but I don’t have to deal with customers. And I can eat the product.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Dude can afford to be a goose farmer.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.
One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.
It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffet to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Great book. I wish it was being made into a movie, instead of whatever the fuck the 2nd Social Network movie will be about. Jessie Eisenberg was ready to play Mark again with Emma Stone as Sheryl Sandberg, but it never took off.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 7 hours ago
21 years of principle engineer in microslop surely is enough to buy a goose farm
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 5 hours ago
I don’t think he even needs the farm to produce anything at that point.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Geese shit a lot but even a large farm would produce way less shit than Microsoft.
blarghly@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Geese: more understanding than your PM
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
There seems to be a lot of people who worked in tech and then went off to fucking do anything not in tech and I’m like “do you know something we don’
dan@upvote.au 7 hours ago
As someone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for 13 years… A lot of senior developers that work at big tech companies can earn over $500k total compensation (salary plus bonus plus stock) per year, and end up saving enough and having enough investments to retire early and mostly live off the returns. This strategy is often referred to as FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).
Of course, people still want something to keep them busy, so they tend to end up doing something they always wanted to do but never had the time or money to do it. For example, I know someone who retired in their 40s and started doing woodworking full time.
abaddon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Those numbers are accurate . I really don’t understand how more people I work with haven’t retired. I made sure to avoid too much lifestyle creep but I can imagine it’s addicting for some. I’m 40 and making the switch out of tech soon. I couldn’t imagine doing this another 10-20 years.
dontgogettingtooclever@piefed.social 7 hours ago
generally they have something we don’t: money
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Yes, tech is exploitative. Of everyone. The only way to win is not to play.
zane@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Current tech isn’t sustainable. Data centers increase the air temp for miles around, pollute massive amounts of water, and use more power then some countries. We don’t have the infrastructure to support data centers and people in a lot of places, and you fucking know which will get preferable treatment.
Thats just a single one of the literal hundreds of depressing things in tech.
Tired of assisting in our own exploitation.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m a principal engineer, I get it
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 8 hours ago
They're living the dream really.
Miller@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Just the one goose?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Yeah, it’s goose farming, despite them clearly having numerous geese.
Miller@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Are you entirely sure he is not a goose that farms.
paranoia@feddit.dk 7 hours ago
Yeah just like how it isn’t a chickens farmer
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
He’s just getting started, don’t goose shame him.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I have geese. I am a goose farmer / caretaker / victim. Can confirm.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Chehalis. Checks out.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Mental outlaw?
Zink@programming.dev 23 minutes ago
One foot in each world here!
I still have my tech job (embedded systems) and in the next few days I am literally going to be building a chicken coop and finishing a filter upgrade on my pond.
I’ve referred to this meme several times in the past few months to describe myself, lol.