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title: My Career So Far in Dates/Titles/Salaries
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date: 2019-03-14
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Let this be inspiration to whoever is afraid of trying, failing and being fired.
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Every single one of these jobs has taught me lessons I've used daily in my
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career.
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## First Jobs
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I don't have exact dates on these, but my first jobs were:
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- Grocery Bagger - early-mid high school
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- Pizza Delivery Driver - late high school early college
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- Paper Grader - Fall quarter of 2012
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I ended up walking out on the delivery job, but that's a story for another day.
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Most of what I learned from these jobs were the value of labor and when to just
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shut up and give people exactly what they are asking for. Even if it's what they
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might not want.
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## Salaried Jobs
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The following table is a history of my software career by title, date and salary
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(company names are omitted).
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| Title | Start Date | End Date | Days Worked | Days Between Jobs | Salary | How I Left |
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|:----- |:---------- |:-------- |:----------- |:----------------- |:------ |:---------- |
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| Junior Systems Administrator | November 11, 2013 | January 06, 2014 | 56 days | n/a | $50,000/year | Terminated |
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| Software Engineering Intern | July 14, 2014 | August 27, 2014 | 44 days | 189 days | $35,000/year | Terminated |
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| Consultant | September 17, 2014 | October 15, 2014 | 28 days | 21 days | $90/hour | Contract Lapsed |
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| Consultant | October 27, 2014 | Feburary 9, 2015 | 105 days | 12 days | $90/hour | Contract Lapsed |
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| Site Reliability Engineer | March 30, 2015 | March 7, 2016 | 343 days | 49 days | $125,000/year | Demoted |
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| Systems Administrator | March 8, 2016 | April 1, 2016 | 24 days | 1 day | $105,000/year | Bad terms |
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| Member of Technical Staff | April 4, 2016 | August 3, 2016 | 121 days | 3 days | $135,000/year | Bad terms |
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| Software Engineer | August 24, 2016 | November 22, 2016 | 90 days | 21 days | $105,000/year | Terminated |
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| Consultant | Feburary 13, 2017 | November 13, 2017 | 273 days | 83 days | don't remember | Hired |
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| Senior Software Engineer | November 13, 2017 | March 8, 2019 | 480 days | 0 days | $150,000/year | Voulntary quit |
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| Senior Site Reliability Expert | May 6, 2019 | October 27, 2020 | 540 days | 48 days | CAD$115,000/year (about USD$ 80k and change) | Voluntary quit |
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| Software Designer | December 14, 2020 | *current* | n/a | n/a | CAD$135,000/year (about USD$ 105k and change) | raise |
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| Archmage of Infrastructure | March 1, 2022 | *current* | n/a | n/a | CAD$147,150/year (about USD$ 115k and change) | n/a |
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Even though I've been fired three times, I don't regret my career as it's been
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thus far. I've been able to work on experimental technology integrating into
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phone systems. I've worked in a mixed PHP/Haskell/Erlang/Go/Perl production
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environment. I've literally rebuilt most of the tool that was catalytic to my
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career a few times over. It's been the ride of a lifetime.
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Even though I was fired, each of these failures in this chain of jobs enabled me
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to succeed the way I have. I can't wait to see what's next out of it. I only
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wonder how I can be transformed even more. I really wonder what it's gonna be
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like with the company that hired me over the border.
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[Fear stops you. Nothing prevents you.](https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/1106119712025382912?s=21)
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Please go out and try, Creator. Go for your larger dreams of success. Inaction is a lot easier to regret than action is.
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Be well.
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---
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[Converted from this Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/1106302720346980352)
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```
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.i la budza pu cusku
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lu <<.i ko do snura
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.i ko do kanro
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.i ko do panpi
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.i ko do gleki
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```
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If you can, please make a blogpost similar to this. Don't include company names.
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Include start date, end date, time spent there, time spent job hunting, salary
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(if you remember it) and how you left it. Let's [end salary
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secrecy](https://thegirlpowercode.com/2018/09/12/is-salary-secrecy-coming-to-an-end/)
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one step at a time.
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