when I was messing around with day trading crypto my main strategy was actually to short btc. It was a long ride, I was up 500% on my initial invesment, I then lost 500%, made 50%, lost 50%, finally made 50% again and quit forever. Thankfully I cashed out before FTX went bust.
Lessons learnt:
- day trading is stressful
- I had no idea what I was doing most of the time
- if I replaced my shorts with longs I would've likely made 1000% at minimum. Any idiot could've day traded for a profit during the 20-21 boom
Congrats! - this might be a blessing for you just like it was for me.
I had vitamin d deficiency induced anxiety recently. After my first panic attack I was in bad state, won't get into the details but it was by far the worst day of my life. This is how I got through it:
- First ever panic attack (felt like I was going crazy, thought that I couldn't ever work again). Went to doctor and he gave me some pills. This is super important if you're unable to cope with/control your anxiety. Took the pills for 2 days and never had to touch it again.
- After taking the pills I had mental clarity like I've never experienced before. I realized that I must've always had anxiety but just never at this bad.
- Read “The Anxiety Skills Workbook" by STEFAN G. HOFMANN. This got me back to a functioning human being but anxiety was still there.
- Read "Feeling Great" by David Burns. Made more progress, anxiety almost gone.
- Started meditation by watching Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche videos. This has changed my life, the same mental clarity I felt after taking the anxiety pills has returned. My bad habits are going away too.
- I still get anxiety but I can control it now. It's natural for your body to experience. You need to embrace it and not fear it.
off topic but I recently started working with an Israeli tech company and I'm amazed by the culture they have, what about Israel produces such high levels of entrepreneurship?
100%, I did the same thing on my side. If shit really hit the fan I could've lost my job because of this as it was my call to not patch. When I went back to the link provided in the email the self-registration part was removed so I looked like a complete tool over zoom when trying to explain this situation to my boss
If it helps you at all, we aren’t the only ones who were blindsided by the severity-level update and lack of further communication. There are several comments on the source ticket calling out the poor communication, and the earlier comments are all asking for clarification about the user registration requirement: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-67940
Both I and another colleague looked at the issue when it first came out and decided we were “safe” for a bit based on the initial communication. Many IT/IS teams were probably scrambling over the long weekend to patch this issue.
Agreed, I'm a mech engineer by education. Saw the writing on the wall half way through my degree and learnt how to code in my spare time. I'm an SWE now, it has literally changed the course of my life, had I stuck with engineering my household would not have an income worthy enough to pay for basic needs + internet. Some of my friends from university are still unemployed, it's so bad that I know someone with a MSc in Engineering working in a mall as a salesman.
Why do you want to move from DS to SWE? I've been thinking of moving from SWE to DS because I don't enjoy the unpaid 24/7 on call support, constant fear of something breaking, having to deal with PM's on my case for the next jira ticket. Also making crud apps is more often then not less mentally challenging then DS.
More money. Much more money. I could afford a house, not just an apartment with a downstairs neighbor who screams at me for making too much noise. I could have a yard and garage. Don't have to work with marketing folks as much or spend so much time explaining technical concepts. Get to just write code and not deal with so much disappointment in models not working. I'd rather crank out CRUD than spend weeks on something without being able to get it to work. But being on call without extra pay really sucks as does Agile. Granted, our DS team is moving to Agile as well. I want a less mentally challenging job, though oddly DS interviews are far less mentally taxing than the Leetcode gauntlet. Grass always seems greener I guess.
Where I live DS pays much more for the same experience the SWE so maybe I am a bit biased on the money side too. But I get you on the models not working thing, I've been there before. Thankfully it was personal projects and not for work. Cranking out CRUD apps does give you some sort of satisfaction I guess although I sorely miss doing math because my background is in engineering. If you have to do algo tests I guess you're in the USA? I've interviewed with companies in EU and Africa and everytime it was just a take home test building something according to spec using specified languages and frameworks. It's not that hard to do. I'm actually doing one right now for a senior dev golang job although I never wrote more than 1k lines of code in golang before lol
I work for a large ISP as a software dev and still have to wake up at 11am to fix server issues, I also got called to fix something on Dec 31 while I was on leave. I'd rather be working after hours for myself than for my a-hole boss
I hope your wife gets better.