The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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No sane programmer would ever write the monstrosities you see in JD's. It would forever ruin anyone's credibility as a programmer to put the shit they put together. I recently saw one asking for LISP experience... LISP !!!
Also I'm with @ArjinFerman here. A lot of programmers want to work with a 10x. A 10x in a team raises the skill level of everyone else in the team. Instead of spending hours on a bug, you can just ask the 10x. My founder CEO is a 10x and I gained like a 3x experience multiplier just talking to him.
I mean no ill will but you have a very warped idea of what it is like being a programmer. Which I wouldn't fault if your only source is reading their accounts on reddit.
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