I did read most of the comments, but don't seem to get a solid suggestion. Would be nice if OP / someone could aggregate the suggestions
Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
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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.
Kindergartens are quite pricey all over the world, so that's 3-4 years of approximately double rent / mortgage
Our kindergartens (Finland) practically cost nothing (expect a small fee mostly as a formality).
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#933Use the Engineer Montgomery Scott method. Overestimate the length of time for a project by 300%. Tell management it will take 3 weeks, get it done in 1 week and let management know it is finished in 2 weeks. You look like a genius and scored a free week.
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#934Am I the only one who read this thread and got a little sad? Technology really does have the potential to change the world for the better, and I still believe that. It's just sad to see so many people who just want to use their talents to make money and that's it. Anyways I can understand why people get to where they are in terms of believing that there is no meaningful work out there in software which also makes eno…
A lot of folks on here think the most sought after companies for SW engineers are FAANG. Base for major profits at these companies: FB - advertising Apple - hardware company with software/services Amazon - ecommerce Netflix - entertainment content streaming Google - advertising Ranking those as far as companies to make the world better, I would rank Apple at the top since they actually produce something of value to a…
You nailed it. FB and Google are just advertising companies. I am not sure what so fuss about "I am Ex-FB or I am Ex-Google". They might as well say I am Don Drapper :)
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To be clear: I'm definitely not claiming to be a 10x, 40x or 100x developer. I'm not claiming I could do the same amount of work as you or anyone else any faster than you or anyone else could. It's more like my managers and product management radically overestimate the amount of time things take. Those are the people choosing how much work they think I should be able to accomplish each sprint and I don't do anything…
curious, do you find leetcode easy/mediums atleast somewhat challenging? or is the stuff you are doing like... connecting plumbing / CRUD stuff together in CLOUD
I haven't done leetcode type exercises in years but even then I never found them too difficult, so hard to use that as a gauge, but yeah, most of my work is implementing new products and features via somewhat fairly standard CRUD-y microservices in the cloud.
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curious, do you find leetcode easy/mediums atleast somewhat challenging? or is the stuff you are doing like... connecting plumbing / CRUD stuff together in CLOUD
I haven't done leetcode type exercises in years but even then I never found them too difficult, so hard to use that as a gauge, but yeah, most of my work is implementing new products and features via somewhat fairly standard CRUD-y microservices in the cloud.
amazing, thank you
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#937Step 1 - Get a remote contracting job where you are the sole engineer on a specific part of the product, like a mobile app or web service. Step 2 - Work real hard on building a large undocumented code base. Get a reputation for speed and responsiveness. Step 3 - Gradually do less and less while billing the same hours. Truthfully tell them that the code base has gotten so complex changes take a lot longer. Rely on you…
Sounds like a good advice. Even better if you're good at working with someone else's legacy code who had already left the company.
At my first job, it often took me several days to find bugs that were often fixed by changing very few lines of code. Nobody would have noticed if I hadn't done anything for a whole day other than answering occasional messages.
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#938I had a data science position with a large non-tech company. It did B2B sales, and had a giant office for us, done up in brushed nickel and Edison light bulbs. The rest of the company was designed in standard cheap-cubicle format, but they took visitors (i.e. sales targets) through to see the data science team, so we got the fancy layout. After working there a few months, I realized that I was also there as part of t…
During down time, work on outside projects. Nobody knows which project you're working on. It's just a editor with code :-)
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And even income. This is the argument for basic income, people would be free to pursue their artistic desires and inventor ideas.
This is an argument against basic income - the world can't function if everyone simply pursued their artistic desires.
Yes, the world can function without jobs of desperation.
The market will find a new fair price that pulls people away from what they want to do into doing the thing that everybody wants them to do.
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#940I build a website that helps people navigate life in Germany. It requires little work and pays the bills. I still have to work, but if it's sunny outside, I am rarely stuck behind the keyboard. Unfortunately, I don't think I could easily reproduce. I wouldn't have the energy to do the same in a new location. Even in my little circle, I have many competitors, though they are fortunately not that good. If there was an…
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