I've seen this kind of thing over and over and the common trends
1. The people don't know how to mentor or teach well despite how good they are
2. The best people get paid millions of dollars a year to work at Meta (literally not an exaggeration) and such and those people don't offer free mentorship on discord no matter how much they want to help people.
3. People who work at FAANG for two years think they can have more impact helping train new engineers, or make more money that way, and they leave their job to help coach people. They don't have enough experience with how the system works to help people but they try hard for a while and give up.
Sorry if these sound negative but all of them involve good intentions. It's just Dunning Kruger combined with a free market.
u/Upstairs_Winner_9847 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
What's your advice for not burning out and concentration for long periods of time in otherworld how do you try to make it fun and apply your skills in the real world
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I'm not good for burnout. I work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I have minor OCD and I channel that towards extreme responsiveness and get joy in elegant solutions that solve problems.
But I don't think it's healthy to feed my problems through putting myself on the right kind of work.
I'm not super easy to work with and I'm someone who in the right place is a 100x engineer and in the wrong place a -10X engineer.
If you have advice, I'm down to hear it haha
u/Upstairs_Winner_9847 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Well I have add and I'm dyslexic so if I hear something or see something in my peripheral vision I am looking at whatever it is so concentration becomes difficult for me for extended periods of time maybe I can try a bug bounty when I get good enough because then it will be like
u/michaelnovatireplied·
My general advice to anyone is to go all in on what you are good at and try to avoid things you aren't.