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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB »

ehnto wrote: post #52

> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups that are just making useless services that clearly won't go anywhere. Find a business that makes money from software, small product-owner companies are often really good to work for, preferably one that supplies/supports your local community. You can actually find that in agencies pretty often. When you've got a bu…

Definitely agree, though I wonder where you find those types of jobs? I recently tried looking at government jobs but didn't find anything that was either remote or near me. Not sure where to find the rest.

Because indeed, almost everything I find on tech recruitment platforms is either big corps (often doing nebulous B2B things) or VC backed startups that clearly don't really provide real value besides making VCs hope they can get their 10x returns

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by psim1 »

> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups

Everything? No, you're looking in the shiny techy places. Counterintuitively, interesting tech jobs are found in boring, established sectors. Get on the boring, common sites like LinkedIn and Indeed. Consider healthcare, automotive (not Tesla, but Ford), or even higher ed. If you want interesting, and not just a big fat paycheck, these are the kinds of places you will find interesting work, make a difference, and see an impact.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by [deleted] »

s5300 wrote: post #71
lotsofpulp wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the fact that they are not in widespread use already, and I have never heard or seen one, it seems reasonable to assume that they do not exist, or are very expensive, or have some other limitation. I would be interested in looking at a link for these bathrooms that do not require human labor for upkeep. Either way, the point is different types of work exist with different difficulties/desirabilities, and peo…

Hard to imagine you’re posting in good faith when using the search engine of your choice with text “self cleaning restroom” comes up with more than enough. That said, don’t think further debate with you will be anything close to fruitful. edit: In the year 2022, anything on the internet containing close to > I have never heard or seen one Very much leads me to believe the poster has an incurable case of brain worms

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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by lotsofpulp »

s5300 wrote: post #71
lotsofpulp wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the fact that they are not in widespread use already, and I have never heard or seen one, it seems reasonable to assume that they do not exist, or are very expensive, or have some other limitation. I would be interested in looking at a link for these bathrooms that do not require human labor for upkeep. Either way, the point is different types of work exist with different difficulties/desirabilities, and peo…

Hard to imagine you’re posting in good faith when using the search engine of your choice with text “self cleaning restroom” comes up with more than enough. That said, don’t think further debate with you will be anything close to fruitful. edit: In the year 2022, anything on the internet containing close to > I have never heard or seen one Very much leads me to believe the poster has an incurable case of brain worms

A product being available and a viable product worth buying are different things.

I work in real estate development, and we have built gas stations and hotels, and very recently. Either we are wasting a ton of money by employing janitors and housekeepers by not knowing a viable self cleaning bathroom exists, or there is some other problem with self cleaning bathrooms.

>I have never heard or seen one

>Very much leads me to believe the poster has an incurable case of brain worms

Or it means that self cleaning bathrooms would be such an amazing innovation that every single new retail/hotel/gas station/convention center/Starbucks/airport and ANY place with a public restroom would rush to install.

And yet it is, objectively, not seen anywhere by me in SF/SEA/NYC/PDX/LA.

What is more likely? That the product, if it exists, has severe limitations which make it uneconomical. Or a post on HN is correct that all these airports/hotels/malls I go to, with recent renovations or new builds, simply did not know about them.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB »

rglullis wrote: post #76

Why don't make your own job? If you are so smart, surely you can go ahead and find something interesting to build...

I'm building something interesting but it's not something that will make money, because it's an open source tool and open source devs generally don't get paid for their work lol.

Outside of that, and outside of the obvious snarkiness, the whole "why don't you make your own job" thing isn't a real solution. Not everyone can be creating companies, otherwise who would be working at those companies?

I don't have much security net in my life so I can't really take the risk of creating a startup on the hope it might turn out well. There's also nothing specific I'm interested in making that would have revenue at the moment.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by krisoft »

Don’t look at job adverts. Figure out what interests you. Find people who do that. Figure out how they got there and how you yourself can get in the same position.

> It honestly makes me feel like my skills and time are being wasted.

Stop wasting them then. Hint: work is not necessarily the thing which will scratch that itch. If after plenty of introspection, and trial and error you find that the kind of things which make you happy don’t pay enough, then you can try thinking about your work as the thing which you do to support what interests you.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

BoumTAC wrote: post #32
rethab wrote: post #9

> I've also found that interviews don't tell you much about reality. Always ask to see code and talk to engineers about what their days look like. I believe there are very few legitimate reasons they won't show you their code, but more likely if they're refusing, it's because they're hiding something. When talking to an engineer, ask them how their code goes from idea to production and have it explained in detail . T…

Does it really happened like that in the US ? It seems like a total different world. Here in France, if I ask for something during the interview process with the recruiter, I will get a response like this: "Sorry we don't do that in our process, so goodbye" and they move to the next candidate while I'm out for this job.

What do you mean by "something"? I am in France and if an candidate does not ask me "something" at all it is usually a big red flag.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by ipaddr »

germinalphrase wrote: post #80
7373737373 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting downside of human psychology/market dynamics, if many want to help others e.g. as nurses or teachers, that positive trait is punished financially due to the high number of applicants

“teachers, that positive trait is punished financially due to the high number of applicants” There are teachers shortages throughout the country. States are rushing to reduce certification standards. “A high number of applicants” isn’t the cause of low teacher wages.

Low wages are the reason for low applicants. High standards are another reason for low applicants.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB »

psim1 wrote: post #82

> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups Everything? No, you're looking in the shiny techy places. Counterintuitively, interesting tech jobs are found in boring, established sectors. Get on the boring, common sites like LinkedIn and Indeed. Consider healthcare, automotive (not Tesla, but Ford), or even higher ed. If you want interesting, and not just a bi…

I've been thinking of looking at healthcare as this seems like an obvious good area to make something useful, though I was only finding weird startups doing things like "mental health coaching subscription app on mobile".

You might be right with the boring sites, I tend to look on those tech recruitment platforms (or really most of the time I just let the recruiters come to me).

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by doslly »

nurettin wrote: post #11

> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups I work in fintech and it is very interesting to me. I've turned down recruiters from 50 countries since getting this job and I obviously don't care if you think money is the root of all evil or some other weird tree hugger babble. So what is interesting for you ?

By tree hugger babble do you mean things like crypto accelerating making our planet inhospitable? Ugh, boring!
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