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Hello FDR--hope y'all had a great Christmas season! I am posting today in order to get some advice as to where to look for employment at a workplace whose culture embraces the values expressed here at FDR and related movements... I have one month left of a coding boot camp (ranked 12'th in the world--not to brag but just for perspective as to the intensity/quality) in San Antonio, TX, and it's around this time that many of us begin thinking about where we'd want to work. I mention my location, but I understand that--especially in the programming world--distance isn't that much of a handicap in terms of reaching/working with employers. We learn HTML, CSS, Bootstrap (I also learned a bit of Foundation), JS, JQuery, AJAX/API, MySQL, and Java (Spring, JSTL, and JSP)--it's a Full Stack program. The goal is familiarity of these languages/frameworks and NOT mastery: Graduates will be qualified for junior-level positions in any of these realms which usually means they won't be writing programs from scratch but rather maintaining existing code (debugging). They tell us at the boot camp that we'll quickly realize whether or not we're "front-end" (looks of websites and some basic functionality) or "back-end" (database communication with the front end) guys, but I, honestly, love both equally. I mention this in order to communicate this point: That I'm more concerned with the values and culture of the company I work for than what technology we'll be working on. I'd love to go out on my own, of course, but I'm besieged by debt (the boot camp ain't free) from all sides, and I'm just trying to minimize risk and get by. I have MANY plans and ideas for going out on my own later, but, for the moment, I would like to enter the working world as an employee. Anyways, I know Gab is rising in light of the Twitter blunderings...I'm just looking for more companies like that which might hire a junior programmer... Thanks again for any help! Justin

Thank you very much! I'll relay this information right away!

Hi! Hope yall are having a great day! I have a friend whose recently become interested in many of the topics discussed on FDR--in particular on how one's childhood can dictate the course of one's life to a large degree (ex. Simon the Boxer). I've been listening to FDR for years now, but I can't for the life of me figure out which podcast to link to him to get him started on getting learning about this important topic. The difficulty is that Stefan talks about this topic in many podcasts, but I would like to find a particular one that would serve a purely introductory purpose. I would be grateful if yall knew offhand of a particular podcast that would fit what I'm looking for--preferably some theory explanation as well as some examples. Thank you very much!