Category: Corporate Slave
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2022 Year Retro
Because everyone seems to be doing them, here’s mine. 2022 handed me some major personal life changes. But that’s private and I should be talking career and tech stuff here. Work wise, 2022 turned out to be a year of uncertainty. It was like living on quicksand, it’s not that bad if you ignore everything…
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Opensource what?
This week I officially got a raise for the first time in my corporate life. Yey! With it came a few papers to sign and one of them was a patents and intellectual property agreement. I understand that companies need to protect their assets (I signed the standard NDA a few months back) but 2…
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Self Assuring Status Update
A month ago, some business guy offered me a job — a really senior position for their startup. Which I accepted. Given my anti game development company stance, some people might think that I’m selling out. Which I’m totally not.
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Under $350 a month
I’ve been using GnuCash since I started receiving a monthly salary back in 2008. It tells me I earned about 250k since Oct 2008, and that I currently have nothing in my bank accounts which I really need to close. Also according to it, I spent less than 15k pesos last month: Rent, Utilities (gas,…
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My Corporate Slave Self
I’m currently under a 2-year bond to work for a Filipino software company. While this may be my first real job, I have a feeling I’m working for a company that could really do better. In less than a week of working there I have broken so many coding rules just to finish a project…