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Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
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Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#2Dry corporate software that is only used during work hours in your time zone.
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#3Dry corporate software that is only used during work hours in your time zone.
If you can stand the pay and working environment, government (local or state in the US) internal non-safety critical app work may be the safest thing -- you almost never have customers in multiple time zones, or with working days or hours significantly different from your office's that need support.
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#4Program different kinds of software. "On call" isn't a thing for some kinds of software. If it's not deployed to a production server, it likely doesn't have software engineers on call.
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#5I'd aim for a giant bank / financial services company. Some still mandate dedicated Ops/Prod Support teams. It can definitely have it's drawbacks, but you're very unlikely to ever be called out.
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#6Not an answer to your question but I used to keep the on call money in a separate pot. Then over time I would buy something fun from the pot, like some new tech. I found this helped me.
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#7A company that has internal customers that go to bed every day. Bankers, underwriters, etc
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#8HFT is one, they switch off when they leave for the night, unless it's crypto. HFT is demanding in other ways though
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#9A company that has internal customers that go to bed every day. Bankers, underwriters, etc
Or a SaaS company that serves those customers.
Re: Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?
#10HFT is one, they switch off when they leave for the night, unless it's crypto. HFT is demanding in other ways though
HFT? (explain please)