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The following tables are a view on my software career in dates/titles/salaries I was employed (company names omitted). Let this be inspiration to whoever is afraid of trying, failing and being fired. Every single one of these jobs has taught me lessons I've used daily in my career.
## First Jobs
I don't have exact dates on these, but my first jobs were:
- Grocery Bagger - early-mid high school
@ -15,31 +17,33 @@ I don't have exact dates on these, but my first jobs were:
I ended up walking out on the delivery job, that's a story for another day.
Most of what I learned from these jobs were the value of labor and when to just shut up and give people exactly what they are asking for. Even if it's what they might not want.
## Salaried Jobs
| Title | Start Date | End Date | Days Worked | Days Between Jobs | Salary |
|:----- |:---------- |:-------- |:----------- |:----------------- |:------ |
| Junior Systems Administrator | November 11, 2013 | January 06, 2014 | 56 days | n/a | $50,000/year |
| Software Engineering Intern | July 14, 2014 | August 27, 2014 | 44 days | 189 days | $35,000/year I think? |
| Consultant | September 17, 2014 | October 15, 2014 | 28 days | 21 days | $90/hour |
| Consultant | October 27, 2014 | Feburary 9, 2015 | 105 days | 12 days | $90/hour |
| Site Reliability Engineer | March 30, 2015 | March 7, 2016 | 343 days | 49 days | $125,000/year |
| Systems Administrator | March 8, 2016 | April 1, 2016 | 24 days | 1 day | $105,000/year |
| Member of Technical Staff | April 4, 2016 | August 3, 2016 | 121 days | 3 days | $135,000/year |
| Software Engineer | August 24, 2016 | November 22, 2016 | 90 days | 21 days | $105,000/year |
| Consultant | Feburary 13, 2017 | November 13, 2017 | 273 days | 83 days | don't remember |
| Senior Software Engineer | November 13, 2017 | March 8, 2019 | 480 days | 0 days | $150,000/year |
| Senior Site Reliability Expert | ??? 2019 | (will be current) | n/a | n/a | not set in stone yet |
| Title | Start Date | End Date | Days Worked | Days Between Jobs | Salary | How I Left |
|:----- |:---------- |:-------- |:----------- |:----------------- |:------ |:---------- |
| Junior Systems Administrator | November 11, 2013 | January 06, 2014 | 56 days | n/a | $50,000/year | Terminated |
| Software Engineering Intern | July 14, 2014 | August 27, 2014 | 44 days | 189 days | $35,000/year I think? | Terminated |
| Consultant | September 17, 2014 | October 15, 2014 | 28 days | 21 days | $90/hour | Contract Lapsed |
| Consultant | October 27, 2014 | Feburary 9, 2015 | 105 days | 12 days | $90/hour | Contract Lapsed |
| Site Reliability Engineer | March 30, 2015 | March 7, 2016 | 343 days | 49 days | $125,000/year | Demoted |
| Systems Administrator | March 8, 2016 | April 1, 2016 | 24 days | 1 day | $105,000/year | Kinda badly |
| Member of Technical Staff | April 4, 2016 | August 3, 2016 | 121 days | 3 days | $135,000/year | Kinda badly |
| Software Engineer | August 24, 2016 | November 22, 2016 | 90 days | 21 days | $105,000/year | Terminated |
| Consultant | Feburary 13, 2017 | November 13, 2017 | 273 days | 83 days | don't remember | Hired |
| Senior Software Engineer | November 13, 2017 | March 8, 2019 | 480 days | 0 days | $150,000/year | Voulntary quit |
| Senior Site Reliability Expert | ??? 2019 | (will be current) | n/a | n/a | not set in stone yet | n/a |
I've been fired three times and I'm still fine and valued enough for a company to want to hire me over the border. Go for your dreams of larger success. And yet without any of the failures in this chain of jobs, I would never have succeeded the way I did. Personally, I'd probably rather regret action more than inaction.
Even though I've been fired three times, I don't regret my career as it's been so far. I've been able to work on experimental technology integrating into phone systems. I've worked in a mixed PHP/Haskell/Erlang/Go/Perl production environment. I've literally rebuilt most of the tool that was catalytical to my career a few times over. It's been the ride of a lifetime. I can't wait to see what's next out of it. I only wonder how I can be transformed even more. I really wonder what it's gonna be like with the company that hired me over the border.
I don't regret my career as it's been so far. It's been the ride of a lifetime. I can't wait to see what's next out of it. I only wonder how I can be transformed even more.
Even though I was fired.
![](/static/img/my-career.jpeg)
[Fear stops you. Nothing prevents you.](https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/1106119712025382912?s=21).
Please go out and try, Creator.
Please go out and try, Creator. Go for your larger dreams of success. Inaction is a lot more easy to regret than action is.
Be well.