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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.

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Cake day: August 14th, 2024

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  • Fully remote for years now and never want an on-site job again. I don’t mind going for a couple of events a year, though.

    I can take my “smoke break” to change loads of laundry or do something else around the house. I have no commute time nor expenses. I am always here for deliveries. I regained so much of my time that I can use for study or entertainment. (Assuming a 1-hour commute, even if most of that is on a train, that’s 10 hours a week back from that alone).

    For success, your company and you need to have good communication and planning. It’s also not for everyone, especially more social people.


  • I’m in my mid-40s. I moved for my final year of highschool, so it’s a bit weird. When Facebook came out, I did reconnect with some, but I quit it around 8 years ago now and lost contact mostly. When I look up my first (rural) school classmates by name now and again, I get so many obituaries. Some freak accidents, many cae accidents, some military, and others still drugs and violence (not much else in tiny truck stop towns). My graduating class was like 180is people and easily a tenth of them are gone (it feels more like 1/5 even).


  • I was terrible at standardized tests. I was in gifted and learning disability classes at the same time in middle school (basically because of ADHD and losing my homework, forgetting it at home, etc.) I’m a successful software engineer who learns foreign languages as a hobby and also run a second business (a small farm) while volunteering sometimes in my village. I think I did OK in that regard(at least in the booksmarts sort of way which is what this presumably measures).

    If standardized tests aren’t working for Gen Z, we should find a better way to measure things. I doubt the sky is falling.


  • Nah. I’m ~40 hours a week (very rare overtime) + an on-call rotation about once a month (zero calls in months) + fully remote except for a couple events a year (though I’m welcome to go to the office more). Even if I make ~50% of whatever they’re paying, that’s still fine with me. I worked my ass off, including multiple jobs, when I was younger.

    I guess the asterisk here is that I did start my own farm business on a small farm, but that’s also monetizing a hobby.





  • I am right-handed and grew up driving on the right side of the road (so wheel on left). I now live in a right-drive country. It makes no difference. I haven’t driven manual here so it might be weird learning to shift with my left hand (I drove manual in the US for 15+ years), but I could get used to it. If I ever needed to joust or shoot someone from my car, having my dominant hand be closer to the window is generally helpful (and why some say that driving on the left with the driver at the right became a thing).