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Quick question for those of you have participated in the "Who wants to be hired?" threads of the past...do you find that you've actively had people reach out to you for good, stable job opportunities via that route?

Ideally, it would be nice to have an employer seek you out based on your background and what they see in you so that thread seems like it could be a potentially good one for those looking for a new job, but I'm not sure if the reality works out that way for those that participate in those threads each month, but would like to find out if others have had success with it.

Thank you!

I’ve had a public sector day job in IT for ~12 years now and had been happy working to make things better for the org. and continue my journey as a software craftsman.

However, the environment just isn’t conducive to allow the focus to be on development.

This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was relegated back to focusing on simple “webmaster” stuff with a website redesign project even though lots of our custom web apps need to be updated or rewritten.

Finally coming to that realization, and not having the option to simply quit (I’m not that wealthy nor am I in a locale that has lots of software development jobs to begin with)...I decided to buy a house and see if that might help (my small family was outgrowing our rental). And it sort of did for the past 5 months or so since most evenings/weekends were all focused on new house stuff.

Yet, as things have started to quiet down those feelings have all resurfaced again and I don’t feel like I have any real ways to fix them directly in my current workplace.

I peruse the monthly HN Who’s Hiring threads and used to imagine in past years of going back to the Bay Area but I’ve let that option go and definitely would prefer a fully remote company now and have even applied to a few over this past year.

Which brings me to my question...are there any companies out here on HN that can first off provide an excellent technical environment and mentorship, a good Bay Area like salary, a retirement plan, and paid medical benefits and be willing to take on somebody that wants to learn and grow as a software developer every single day?

When applying to companies it always seems (this is only my perception) that what’s being looked for is expertise in specific tech stacks rather than focusing on the potential of the individual and hiring based on that.

I’m hoping my next decade of life can be made a little more interesting by finding this type of company out there that can that potential in me.