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For me the recruiter went on holiday and by the time they came back I had a new job lol

I wouldn't mind but I have no background in it at all

It's a bit hard to find something. Usually, people who contribute do so because they're users of a project and want to fix bugs or add features, so that's one way. Other than that,…

Yep, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Definitely going to look at this board, thanks :D

Not really, I've been thinking that for years, it's just been hitting me more recently. But it seems unlikely for me that anyone in general tech would know much about the science i…

yeah I have absolutely no idea. When I look on linkedin, google, typical job boards and others, I mostly find startups.

I worked in the game industry for years and left it, I've made games before. The engine I'm making is for a very specific need (initially made to help someone else make a specific …

I don't know why you keep being so aggressive but you don't know me or anything about me and you're making weird wide ranging judgements just based on the fact that I'm asking for …

Yeah my last few job searches went a bit like that too. Sending CVs to try interesting new things gets not replies, meanwhile I get dozens of recruiters offering me well paid jobs …

Yeah, seriously I'd put a big warning on that one. I've been burned many times (and know many people who have) being the nice one who does the hard boring work that no one wants to…

I've been thinking I should get into consulting for a long time, as I tend to like fixing higher level problems when I arrive at a company. But that seems impossible to break into …

That's probably true. The work I always love the most is building tools to help other people at work... On the other hand I've found those companies hard to break into because they…

Honestly, Facebook has tried to hire me like 3 times now and every time I got a completed offer at a different job by the time they finished organising their 8-step interview proce…

yeah, I'm thinking of enabling it, but what I'm making is a game engine that only has a few users for now and it would be a very very long way to being able to make a living income…

It does seem interesting, I've wanted to get more into electronics since I played with HDL when following the nand 2 tetris book. Though I'm not super experienced in low level or R…

Yeah, I'm pretty bitter about it too. I've seen it in both industries I've worked at, it's so bad. Actual technical recruiters will contact me and be interested despite me barely m…

That's pretty much where I currently am. "easy" job, the rest of my free time is spent on open source side projects. But it's just not a great feeling to be paid to make nothing us…

I've been thinking of looking at healthcare as this seems like an obvious good area to make something useful, though I was only finding weird startups doing things like "mental hea…

I'm building something interesting but it's not something that will make money, because it's an open source tool and open source devs generally don't get paid for their work lol. O…

Definitely agree, though I wonder where you find those types of jobs? I recently tried looking at government jobs but didn't find anything that was either remote or near me. Not su…

I'm not talking about specific people, just in general. People making decisions in companies are looking for revenue, and what brings money isn't necessarily aligned with public go…

tbh I have a great side project that people like and that I'm working on in my spare time, but it's a game engine and not really something that can be turned into a living

Something useful that feels like it's worth being made, technically interersting to make (which to me generally means challenging to keep me interested), and with good quality tech…

See the specialising part is interesting to me, because I've found a lot of companies expect you to be very specialised these days, and it really gets in the way of trying new thin…

In theory that's true, but in practice the people at the top deciding what's profitable aren't working for maximising public good, so it doesn't work anymore