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  • Glad you got diagnosed. There’s a ton of bad management in startups. Especially stay away from managers that grew up in toxic shops.

    I’ve always been a strong employee. People get good at pushing buttons. Spent more time in a divorce therapy talking about a manager than the personal issues.

    Realized for every boundary problem I had, there were n alienated people on my team that really got hurt hard. Sr. Management fixed the issue

    Be good at taking breaks. Be good at looking for new roles before you need them.

    Often; the money side that seems big to employees is new house rich. If you aren’t happy, it’s not worth it.


  • You mentioned 6-7h of sleep. I suspect you aren’t getting enough sleep and not stretching enough.

    You said you went from sedentary to active. Do you have off peak weeks? Did you just start leg days? Is it muscle pain or joint pain? Do you stretch?

    Your tendons and joints need time to build up. I suspect you did wide ranges, you’ve not been stretching, and you’ve really put a strain on the muscle ends. Stretch daily and move throw your motions.

    I went through a similar relearning curve going from cycling -> cycling / yoga -> adding weights

    If the stretching activity isn’t there, man the recovery sucks.

    Good for you for doing it! You’ll figure it out!


  • Read, reproduce, understand. Think of how the programmer was solving a problem and left a problem. Did they probably didn’t understand the problems. The synthetic challenges are often a skill to themselves.

    Re attention span, consider different expectations. Professional product engagements are often 2 ftes/2 weeks. Getting a few good findings out in that time is the goal.

    Sometimes they run out of time on a thread they are looking at. Sometimes they pull on a thread only to find out there’s no way from here. Sometimes years later there’s an insight that x could work.

    Building up that last skill is what makes you more effective. Find someone to bounce ideas off of that’s in the learning curve with you.



  • cmg@infosec.pubtoLinux@lemmy.mlSell Me on Linux
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    Agree here.

    Spend your time making sure you are protected against ransomware with good offline backups and able to recover your practice. Keep your payments separate from your comms machine.

    Your job is going to have lots of shady things to click on/invoice/etc

    Plan for it so a malicious client/infected evidence/mistaken click doesn’t take down your practice.

    I’m 25y into this as a technologist and still make mistakes on “oh this will be quick”. Make sure your time sinks are 100% aligned with your business. Think of automation / value and you’ll have the right mindset.

    If you find the tech side fascinating, there’s always demand for good tech lawyers and lawyer comms are entryways into technology management.