All posts in category Corporate Slave

Opensource what?

This week I officially got a raise for the first time in my corporate life. Yey! With it came a few papers to sign and one of them was a patents and intellectual property agreement. I understand that companies need to protect their assets (I signed the standard NDA a few months back) but 2 [...]

Self Assuring Status Update

A month ago, some business guy offered me a job — a really senior position for their startup. Which I accepted. Given my anti game development company stance, some people might think that I’m selling out. Which I’m totally not.

Under $350 a month

I’ve been using GnuCash since I started receiving a monthly salary back in 2008. It tells me I earned about 250k since Oct 2008, and that I currently have nothing in my bank accounts which I really need to close. Also according to it, I spent less than 15k pesos last month: Rent, Utilities (gas, [...]

My Corporate Slave Self

I’m currently under a 2-year bond to work for a Filipino software company. While this may be my first real job, I have a feeling I’m working for a company that could really do better. In less than a week of working there I have broken so many coding rules just to finish a project [...]