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Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
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Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
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Agile coaching is it. It's literally money for nothing. I'm not an Agile coach, but have seen enough to know that it really is nonsense snake oil that large organisations will pay incredible sums of money for. I sort of wonder if the negative real value of the Agile industry means the price is effectively limitless, given that the whole thing is a Fugazi so the bill is whatever the buyer is foolish enough to pay.
Well, it's a transformative process that not many orgs can implement.. that's basically it. Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it.
> Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it.
What about the alcoholism to cope with what you've wrought on the poor souls?
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> just needs to be clear and well defined Jeez I wish I had work like that. Maybe 1 in 10 tickets is clear and well defined where I work.
At the my current job, I don't even have tickets just slack messages consisting of hey can you do this inset vague thing , and after asking for multiple clarifications to narrow the possible interpretation I start working on it. Guess what ? The last Big task/Project I had to do morphed into another one each time I reported that I was done for 11 times in a row, midway I just gave up mentally. And it all started with…
sucks. I feel your pain...hope u find a better gig.
Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
#704Find a company that does SAFE.
Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
#705This is an awesome question. I hope someone has good strategies for you. Life should be spent doing the things you find worthwhile, and the fact is, not all of those things are monetizable. Given how esteem- and success driven HN as a platform is... you might not get too many ideas since I suppose people want to maintain their "hireable" status. Success and "loving your job" are more or less empty phrases unless you…
"I probably _appear_ motivated but I'm just a neurotic who hates failing." I feel seen.
Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
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Because that’s not what it’s about; it’s about having a diverse leadership that more closely resembles the makeup of our nation and communities. Cis white men make up only about 30% of our population but account for probably 80% (and that’s being generous) of positions above middle management. It’s the cultural homogeneity that’s the business problem, and that doesn’t get solved without the right optics. Most of thes…
But as it's been said many times, corporations aren't democracies. (And regardless of moral value, they never will be.) The expectation that your leadership should look like you is fraught and misunderstands the whole idea of a corporation. We don't hire according to population makeup, we hire according to an arbitrary set of metrics that roughly correlate with drive to create value.
The expectation is societal by their participation in the political process; because the voice of the population carries far less weight than that of a large corporation, there will be strong internal pressure for the company to take a political stance on an issue.
The corporations opened this Pandora’s box; if they want the workplace to be apolitical again they need to work with Congress to muzzle themselves and stay out of politics altogether.
(Also those “arbitrary metrics” now largely include diversity metrics because they do actually increase profitability in the long run.)
Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
#707I've been thinking about starting a co-op with a few people recently (get a front end person, a backend person, maybe someone who knows CMS's and can do website things, someone who knows marketing, a writer, a designer, and an ops person) and taking on freelance work. We wouldn't all be needed for all projects, we'd all try to bring in leads, and it would generate good part time work for everyone. On the side if we d…
Sounds similar to https://agaric.coop/ which is a web-dev co-op. They do most of their work in Drupal.
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#708Work for administrations.
Be very nice. Solves their problems. Just don't tell them the time it really took you to do so. They will be happy.
Source: I had several administrations as clients in the past. They loved me because I explained everything clearly even to the less tech saavy of them, was very nice, and had a solution for everything. I loved them because they paid me for very easy work I could do blind folded when I needed to rest between hard gigs.
Just remember if you do only that, it will be soul crushing. But you have your hobbies, so you should be ok.
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Kids are not that expensive. You do not have to send them to college, you just have to love them, teach them, care for them. Sure you will have to buy more food, and you might need a bigger house/apartment.
Kids are not that expensive Colleague I knew in London literally spent more on daycare for his two kids than he did on his mortgage. The other option is that one parent quits their job and stays home, but that is also a massive (opportunity) cost if you're both educated and have a decent career.
Strictly speaking the problem isn't that the kid is expensive, it is that, per your two options, 1) childcare is expensive, and 2) London / their spending habits are too expensive to support a stay-at-home parent. There are lots of other choices that one can make, although they are problem not the common choices. They might actually be happier with some of the other choices, from stories I hear of people that sat down and thought about other options.
Re: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
#710This is an awesome question. I hope someone has good strategies for you. Life should be spent doing the things you find worthwhile, and the fact is, not all of those things are monetizable. Given how esteem- and success driven HN as a platform is... you might not get too many ideas since I suppose people want to maintain their "hireable" status. Success and "loving your job" are more or less empty phrases unless you…
> I'm basically in a job that is quite important for my org, I get compliments for good job, but I hate most aspects of my daily work since the tech stack is complex and fugly. I probably _appear_ motivated but I'm just a neurotic who hates failing. If I didn't need to feed and house my family I would have moved to a lower paying position long ago that is intrinsically more motivating.
I too hate failing. And many times end up working extra to get things done properly. This keeps me in very different position where my manager, team relies on me, praises me but end of day it takes toil on other parts of life. I have seen many people in my career, who just don't work, don't bother about product at all, do things at last moments, have literally zero affection for the craft and still survives in industry. I really envy them.
I am grateful to have good paying job in pandemic while many people laid off. But these days what I really need is to close my laptop at 5 pm WITHOUT ANY WORRY.