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0 pointstshaddox4y ago0 comments

Unless, of course, starting a company is not something you want to do.

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lumost4y ago· 3 in thread

Then work at a large firm which will let you do these things, and fund you should it not work out. Our industry is still young, and problems to solve are myriad. If you can tell what the good ones and bad ones are then you are much to valuable to work on someone else's idea.

feoren4y ago

"Then just get your dream job; god, it's not that hard!"

I invite you to search developer jobs in a large (3 million+) metro area that is not San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. Developer jobs you will find:

- Shitty ad-tech company

- Knockoff ad-tech

- Shitty, knockoff ad-tech

- Fintech, but shitty

- Fintech, but even shittier

- Fintech, but actually a scam

- Fin-ad-tech

- Fintech for dogs

- Adtech for dogs

- Giant telecom where you will be put in a prison of a narrowly defined role where shitty developers go to slowly die

- Remote office of a FAANG where you can be put in a prison of a narrowly defined role doing shitty ad-tech to help an evil psychopathic hundred-billionaire get even more of a death grip on all aspects of our lives, but at least you're paid well

- (Rarely) Internal developer for a company that is actually doing something useful and interesting, but where you'll end up maintaining a shitty out-of-support enterprise system built on a base platform that does nothing where the real business logic is all embedded in their inner-platform key-value tables by engineering interns.

- Fintech

jsiaajdsdaa4y ago

Hehe, I really like this answer. I feel a bit cursed and also lucky at the same time in my current role... I was given ownership of a project that is solving a $100M problem at a big company, but now that it is working well... random people from other teams are showing up to take control of it and kill it with their idiotic ideas.

tshaddoxOP3y ago

And I suppose the alternative is to start your own company, take VC money, and thus become one of those shitty ad-tech, knockoff ad-tech, fintech but shitty, fintech but actually a scam, etc. companies? But at least you'll probably end up owning >1% of the company!

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