Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

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Post by godelmachine » Sat, Sep 05, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #52

godelmachine wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I am referring to an enterprise SaaS company based outta Houston. Technical Support Analyst > 4 years exp makes around $80k-$90k/ year.

Another question if you don’t mind -

>>Seek employment elsewhere when able!

Were you talking about some specific roles? Like software developer or something?

Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

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Post by RobbieHacks » Sat, Sep 05, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

burntoutfire wrote: post #41

iKevinShah wrote: post #32

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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…

this ^^

Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

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Post by phakding » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

viburnum wrote: post #16

It 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.

I started hating web dev in general after working in web dev for few years. It's the same CRUD operations over and over again with some massaging of the data. On top of that everyone wants to apply their latest and greatest idealogy (tdd, pair programming, agile) like they are trying to solve world poverty or something.

I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.

Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 12:31 AM UTC

godelmachine wrote: post #61

toomuchtodo wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I am referring to an enterprise SaaS company based outta Houston. Technical Support Analyst > 4 years exp makes around $80k-$90k/ year. Another question if you don’t mind - >> Seek employment elsewhere when able! Were you talking about some specific roles? Like software developer or something?

If you’re capable of resolving production issues, performing technical support, and have at least some proficiency with software development, I would recommend exploring SRE or software engineering roles to capture more compensation (based on the skill level you’ve communicated in thread).

Re: Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

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Post by godelmachine » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #64

godelmachine wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am referring to an enterprise SaaS company based outta Houston. Technical Support Analyst > 4 years exp makes around $80k-$90k/ year. Another question if you don’t mind - >> Seek employment elsewhere when able! Were you talking about some specific roles? Like software developer or something?

If you’re capable of resolving production issues, performing technical support, and have at least some proficiency with software development, I would recommend exploring SRE or software engineering roles to capture more compensation (based on the skill level you’ve communicated in thread).

Will do, but may I ask for some examples of jobs I should be looking for. I get it you are saying SRE and software engineering but some links giving a fair idea about position and salary ballpark would be gratefully reciprocated.