I retired a several years ago (2018). I'm 60 (2022) now.

I was getting $150/hour. I charged by the hour.

I live in Nashua, NH. I think location really effects what you can charge.

Over the 4+ years I worked as contractor, among things I worked on:

- Radar displays/GUI (solo, in person, job shop).

- Laser scanning (solo).

- Medical scanning/GUI - the computer vision part (solo)

- Computer vision for protecting operators (solo, job shop).

To get work, I talked to former employers (direct) and sometimes the indirect kind (through a job shop).

Oops! I meant 15 years.

I love these pens (TUL). I was also surprised that they weren’t mentioned.

I have played with Python on my tablet (Pythonista). Does that make me an “em-bedded” programmer?

Bravo! :D

As the “man of the household”, my jobs include repairing the mailbox and putting spiders outside.

When the wife tells me there is a spider in the shower I reply: "Oh, you mean Steve?"

Spiders eat the mosquitos so that's plus.

I'm a lazy software developer.

I can't take a book and make myself learn ("push"). Instead, I find a project I'm interested in and let it "pull" me in. Sort of the difference between studying a French book ("push") and actually going to live in France ("pull") with French people. You still bring the book of course.

Not sure what's going with your account but I upvoted you.

I logged back in just to do that. Downvotes should cost.

I use Waze (on the iPhone) and it doesn't have that problem.

I normally use both Waze and Google Maps, have this problem happening all the time, although it was a long time ago I drove now so maybe got fixed in the last month or so? I have a iPhone 12 Mini if that bears any difference.

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I use Visual Studio to trace through code I’ve written recently to see if it’s doing what I meant it to. It’s like proof reading.

(Professional coder since 1987.)

I can't believe Apple blew her off like that.