Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

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Post by jqm » Fri, Nov 27, 2015, 8:40 PM UTC

csharpminor wrote: post #35

davisr wrote: post #3

I currently work at an ad agency (we call ourselves a "boutique data-driven marketing company") in Milwaukee. My official title is Developer, but I do a lot of things: I manage servers, code applications (HTML/CSS/Javascript, but also C, R, and loads of shell scripting), research new concepts, automate existing workflows, and so much more. Before I did this, I worked as a freelancer doing one-off website jobs for sma…

I've been working for a b-corporation that is in the ed-tech space. There are a lot of problems to solve here. After two years, I feel that educational software is more about production quality/entertainment value than about solving technological challenges. Poorly designed content that is not engaging can't compete with other resources on the web. Building a platform to facilitate learning is difficult, because the…

"You'll also be going up against big companies (e.g. Relias) that already have thousands of stock trainings on-hand that they can adapt slightly to individual clients."

And thousands of public sector IT people who are making very little money and are very hard to fire.....

Not usually where you find the most forward thinking progress oriented tech advocates in my experience.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

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Post by filsmick » Sun, Nov 29, 2015, 9:01 AM UTC

begriffs wrote: post #31

My favorite work is writing open source software. The variety of people interacting helps make the project more general purpose. Creating software for strangers enforces better docs. You get to work with people around the world whose programming ability and knowledge is humbling. Everyone is intrinsically motivated by the project and puts their best effort into what will be publicly visible code. I'm currently workin…

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Re: Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

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Post by Galit » Sun, Nov 29, 2015, 11:14 AM UTC

I'm an entrepreneur, my current project is TimelyPick. I like my job, because it it challenging, and I do it with passion. My current challenge is to promote http://www.timelypick.com/play-solitaire - a new way to play online solitaire card games, and I find it fascinating because it's not just doing seo, it is also understand the world of solitaire players, what they like and what they don't. When I tried to understand their world, I thought why not share my findings with others, and then started to write about it, and writing is also challenging for me.