"We built lots of things from Lego" - was that hard?

Someday I'd like to at least visit a "we pay lots but it sucks to work here" company, just to see what it's like.

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as has already been posted much below, go work in finance... I have been a trader (with plenty of coding involved) for just over 7 years.

I took a job several years ago which had the whole "It's a great place to work, but we pay less" within the industry and I took is as a safehaven for several years while a few family issues were playing out (brother relocating to Singapore while father was dying, etc, etc...) only to have the business shut down by someone higher up having no idea what we were doing (we NEVER lost money in any single month).

The thing is, if you go into that type of job you NEED to get properly, and I mean PROPERLY paid for it.

I would love to work for a company where I know the people who run it, but for now my skill set is invalid. Getting there though...

Argh, more science please.WE DO NOT KNOW. WE BELIEVE THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO GIVEN THE AVAILABLE KNOWLEDGE is that... There is no - Scientists say X is the case. There can be a case of most scientist agree that X is the most likely case. We have no PROOF of evolution. We have EVIDENCE that suggests that it is the most likely progression of life through the ages. I BELIEVE in evolution. That does not mean that, as a scientist, I would completely discount an different theory if there were facts (observable or otherwise) to strongly support such a theory I would completely disregard is. Confirmation bias is a bitch. I constantly have to force myself to read articles/papers on theories that I suspected were a shut case. Please. We do not KNOW anything.

Can you please stop. Seriously. This is science. In science there is no such this as something which is definitely true. You can only disprove a hypothesis. There is no such thing as a CERTAIN proof. That only happens in mathematics.

Russia did that this year.

Switzerland? Singapore? The USA?

Which lasts you... after inflation is taken into account, what? 25 years? Die at 45. Awesome

I am 27 and recently worked out that for me to keep my quality of life (and adding a hell of a lot of free time (which costs money to utilise)) I would need ~£8 million or so (just under $13 million) to say today "I will NEVER work again".

If you find a hobby-job, that keeps you busy, you enjoy and at least breaks even then it's a different story.

Idiot. Know many people that went with the Galaxy Note just because of the screen size (though crappy resolution for that screen size). Fits it suit pocket. Over 50 with sight issues and can READ what's on the screen! Important!

Yep, and not only that, they didn't even go with 720p! If they went with 1080 i would have been impressed. And MAYBE bought the phone.

Ok, slightly chunky, but on amazon I can buy a battery for my Galaxy Nexus that last 3 days of active use for $20. If I'm travelling and run out of juice I can swap another one in. Not difficult.

And yes, it's possible to run a clean version of Windows. You just need to be fucking careful.

Yes, Apple lets through ZERO malware... right... They do care more about malware, true, but they're still not perfect. I have hopes for the new blackberry OS but I doubt it will fly. Having a brain is more or less a requirement for someone who doesn't blindly buy Apple. It's the idiots who allow their machines/phones become infected, unfortunately for us it's the iditots who make up the mass market - this being slashdot I hope that people aren't too offended given that MOST of them are outside of that category.

like a 720p video at the correct resolution? Seriously? WTF? I know you need the same horizontal resolution to run existing apps without a black box around the entire screen (ONLY on the sides when viewed sideways) but seriously, adopt to at least ONE standard!

Exactly! Because all your music is only available on a GM stereo!

Until Jobs is dead, need to wait a while til they show us the body so we can confirm he isn't living in some tropical paradise with 2-Pac and Aaliyah