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I am in tech support and I am expected to fix production downtime incidents.
That’s SRE work with garbage pay. Seek employment elsewhere when able!
What makes you think it’s garbage pay?
Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
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Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s SRE work with garbage pay. Seek employment elsewhere when able!
What makes you think it’s garbage pay?
In my experience, there is a large delta in pay between tech support and SRE roles (~$45k-$60k/year). Tech support pay is fine if you're just doing tech support.
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#53What about it stresses you out? Is there anything about the job that you like?
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#54Look into Salesforce. You might do well as a Salesforce administrator. You can set up your own small "org" and do their training, Trailhead, try some administrative training and see if it's up your alley.
I had to integrate an companies booking software with Salesforce via API. It's dreadful software from that perspective
From the outside, developing, it can be. But running and configuring the platform from the inside pays well and has several "low-code" way of doing reasonably scoped tasks.
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> Another option, which may be unpopular is to find a less demanding job. No one wants to hear it, but theres a plenty of development jobs, especially in non-tech companies where you don't have to be that good, you won't do much outside the standard 9-5 hours, pay what you want,and you can coast at for a very long time as long as you aren't a total incompetent. These ofc come with their own issues, but it might be th…
Government, banks, big non-tech corporations in general. In particular, my observation is that anything "data" related (big data, data warehousing, any kinds of report building) can be technically easy (certainly easier than a CRUD app - also easier to maintain, since it's typically not running 24/7), well paying and populated by not that strong people. These data applications often have a lot of value to the busines…
Do you think the 10-20 years down the road thing is just because from the late 90s until now there's been a huge change of paradigms, etc...
But now things are bit more established. If you're a good Java 8+ engineer who's worked on complicated large systems... do you really think that will go away?
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#56How about relocating or going fully remote with company from overseas? I feel like US market is 10x more demanding than European.
What do you mean by more demanding?
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#57It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting harder to find.
That pushed me away from web dev but not dev in general. Got into native mobile dev, now playing around with Rust. Wondering if I’ll end up full circling back to the web with WASM. Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there!
I did the exact same 2 years ago and haven’t looked back. Development feels fun again.
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
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Working solo. If I could maintain some servers or gear in a remote location or something, that would be perfect.
https://ghgcorp.applicantpro.com/jobs/
I'd love to go to Antarctica.
However... skimming through some of those, they actually look like pretty typical "work on a team" positions (e.g. "...technical guidance and mentoring of Computer Technicians with focus on accurate completion of work orders and execution of standard operating procedures..."), not "this cupboard has spares, this cupboard has rations, see you in 6 months, good luck!".
Any hints for finding something that's closer to the second option?
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#59If the problem is you really dislike it, then I’d start with what you do like and go from there. If the problem is stress, consider discovering the source of that stress and if there’s a solution besides leaving the industry.
(Not the OP, but this question does resonate...)
It's a good set of questions to keep in mind, but I'm not sure it always leads to a feasible course of action.
What I like is working independently on a gnarly problem for some extended period of time. That explicitly includes spending the odd day "spinning my wheels" without being immediately being pushed to ask others for help -- because bumping my head against stuff while working alone is the way I like to learn stuff.
This way of working seems to be under fairly vigorous attack in favour of "everything needs a team", and I'm not quite sure how to work around that. Just pointing out that I'm getting things done does not seem to be sufficient.
Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
#60Maybe try PM role? You have been working for long, you might have an idea how things work in shop.
Here, the most of cognitive load of will be talking to people, thinking how to design product and getting work done.
Okay, this might seem a lot at the moment but this is something to think in your position.