Hiro Nakamura: "Yataaa!!"

I just joined #TheGreatResignation

That's what Hiro says when he uses his powers: "Yatta!"

I also wrangled an after hours support contract with my previous employer at 150/hour, because they have no talent, and I am a quietly competent badass that churns out gold, with a verifiably low error%. Unlimited hours, as many as I can throw at them.

They are rightly terrified that many of their employees are going to leave after bonuses are distributed. Me: Frak waiting, time to open up a can of coding whoop-ass. A 22k check would be nice, but my mental health is more important than money. First world problems!

I also got them to agree to let me use their data connection, and my existing work, as reference in building my first commercial offering, owned wholly by this guy.

I made it a package deal, but still made it a win-win, with them as my first customer. Tried realllly hard, and was pretty successful at not being cocky, just factual. I made it plain that I could go to anyone on that OLTP system, and build everything, again, from the ground up. I positioned it that I'd rather work *with* them, and just to let me have a little slice, just for ME.

The timing was insane synchronicity. I've been looking for months, very pickily.

I've been begging them for a DBA to support me for about a year now, to enable me to code faster.

They himmed and hawwed, this and that, finally found someone, I interviewed him, seems like a younger me.

My two week notice making my last day the last business day before the new guys starts.

Sucks for him, and I plan on personally apologizing for increasing his stress levels, but this guy gotta get paid.

I'm going to make so much frakking money off of what I know, and what I can do, and the fact that I can do it all alone. Teach me your business, describe your challenges, then just GTFO of my way, and let me build you the Data Warehouse you need. That's my superpower.

Had some anxiousness with getting the final GoForLaunch from my new company, but that's all settled, as of a phone call, mere minutes before this post. Had lots of Woooo's inside the house, Romeo came running in case it was bad noise, we danced a bit.

Had a Woooo outside too.

Trying really hard to pump up my only buddy there. He's a badass, but has a big case of undeserved imposter syndrome. Me: "You're next, bro. Fat Stacks!"