I had decades of tech experience including Linux administration. I now have a homestead with geese.
So cool. Are they interactive? Do they recognize you and let you pet them?
Depending on the time of year they will dodge or attack me. So they are very interactive. My wife can pet them.
We got them because hawks were taking out chickens. After we got geese that stopped. In addition to being excellent guard animals they also mow the grass and in the spring they give us giant eggs.
After the initial cost to buy, raise for a month until they can be outside and their housing they can live entirely on grass making them practically free to maintain. Best farm investment ever.
I built and sold an MSP, now I farm grain and cattle. If anything, I work even more, but I don’t have to deal with customers. And I can eat the product.
21 years of principle engineer in microslop surely is enough to buy a goose farm
I don’t think he even needs the farm to produce anything at that point.
Geese: more understanding than your PM
I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.
One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.
It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.
Great book. I wish it was being made into a movie, instead of whatever the fuck the 2nd Social Network movie will be about. Jessie Eisenberg was ready to play Mark again with Emma Stone as Sheryl Sandberg, but it never took off.
There seems to be a lot of people who worked in tech and then went off to fucking do anything not in tech and I’m like "do you know something we don’
As someone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for 13 years… A lot of senior developers that work at big tech companies can earn over $500k total compensation (salary, bonus, and stock) per year. A higher level, like L7 at Google or E7 at Meta, can earn over a million per year. You can end up with $5-10 million net worth after 10-15 years.
Some people end up saving enough and having enough investments to retire early and mostly live off the returns. This strategy is often referred to as FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).
Of course, people still want something to keep them busy, so they tend to end up doing something they always wanted to do but never had the time or money to do it. They don’t need the money, so can spend time just enjoying it rather than focusing so much on working. I know someone who retired in their 40s and started doing woodworking full time.
Current tech isn’t sustainable. Data centers increase the air temp for miles around, pollute massive amounts of water, and use more power then some countries. We don’t have the infrastructure to support data centers and people in a lot of places, and you fucking know which will get preferable treatment.
Thats just a single one of the literal hundreds of depressing things in tech.
Tired of assisting in our own exploitation.
generally they have something we don’t: money
Yes, tech is exploitative. Of everyone. The only way to win is not to play.
Chehalis. Checks out.
I’m a principal engineer, I get it
They’re living the dream really.
Just the one goose?
I have geese. I am a goose farmer / caretaker / victim. Can confirm.
Yeah, it’s goose farming, despite them clearly having numerous geese. This is because english is an absolutely terrible language.
Yeah just like how it isn’t a chickens farmer
Mental outlaw?
