At IBM we had Lou Gerstner.....a candy and cigarette salesman brought in from Nabisco to turn the business around in 1993......and it looked like IBM was going to fade away. IBM had an amazing turnwround. Lou at the time focused on who we were, and the SERVICE aspects which really regained trust with our big customers, and he let the engineers run, held back "finance" and a lot of good stuff came about. IBM my not be an upfront player like Apple but behind the scenes. Who makes the whole thing run????? IBM *still* does and is still making a killing

Well my goal isn't to be Steve Jobs. It's Steve Wozniak, the actual creator 😄

IBM is huge to this day. I manage 3 IBM products at work.

They are not the best...or the coolest, nor the sexiest in the high tech field today......but the pistons, cams, crankshafts, and engine block are still ol IBM. My stock has been slowly growing since I left, so it can't be all that bad. I was on the ESS project back in the early to mid 1990's. That was storage systems last big mainframe. We cried when the first one rolled of the line in San Jose back in 1998

If I was young...........I would have tried to get more into the software side. Still a growing field

Our competitors was EMC, Western Digital , DEC, and Sun. We thankfully put SUn out of its misery.

Yeah, embedded software engineering seems fun but very simplistic.

Sun was garbage 😄

Heyyy

I need a good video editing app

Sup Blaq, what OS?

This piece of shit just wasted a fin hour

I suggest Lightworks

Need Android

@Deleted User What specific niche in software would you suggest?

@BlaqShiep Oh, no idea, sorry. I don't really do mobile.

@Deleted User It seems machine learning / web app / API is the sweet spot

Everything om mobile for now. Rebuilding my life

@BlaqShiep Oh yeah?

Women... She had my son but i still knew better

Damn. Well, now you know 😉

I already knew lol... I guess now im tired of getting my ass kicked tho

brb phone call

I have nothing left to lose lol

Yeah, that is rough.

Shes gonna want me back in about a year when im on top again. Thats the real test

Its getting better...

Yes! Be strong my dude.

Lol that makes me feel like shit actually

Had nothing to do with her, some guys might only say that, she was borderline retarded, we had nothing in common and never was really attracted to her.

And she has malignant narcissistic personality disorder. Basically a sadist psychopath to some degree. So i wanted to "be strong" and be there for my son... But i cant be

ugh......angry client. calls me at 6pm......needs work done immediately demands I come in at 8am. Told him I was booked til 3pm, and "that-isn't-good-enough-for-him" so I said "call up a CPA firm and wait two weeks" silence on his end. So agrees to 3pm, and then "doesn't want to pay me my usual rate" and out of the mild christian charity I do posess I agree to his lower offer. Gotta write up an agreement tonight. Gonna grab a shave and a shower. Be back in a bit

Boo

@Deleted User that's bullshit, hes asking you to drop everything and you get a lower rate to prioritize his work, fuck that should require a higher rate

@BlaqShiep Damn dude.. Sorry to hear that

@Deleted User, you're not that desperate, are you?

Fuck. I've got overtime today, but it's not that much.

Desperate? no. However, he is a consistent client over the past five years. I work on referral only....and I don't work for a CPA firm. I can adjust.

Also.......there will come a time when he will pay me full price again, and then some.......

Yeah. Far enough.

He will try as long as he can for your reduced rate.