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Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development

#1
Hello fellow HNers.

I am posting this from a throw-away account. I tried to anonymize most of the details here; I will of course give my full details to serious people who will contact me privately.

I'm a Python developer, and I live in a famously aggressive little country. I'm currently being offered to work in a big governmental firm responsible for weapon development for our military. Military power is a very high priority for my country, thus a lot of resources are given to these kind of companies, and thus I'm being offered very good salary and benefits for this job.

I don't really want to work there. Incidentally, I'm not a pacifist, but I would really prefer to avoid working with these kind of people. Also I wouldn't want to do all the security checks and be exposed to secret military information, etc.

Will anyone here be interested of hiring me? I'd be interested in working as a telecommuting freelancer.

About myself: I'm in my twenties, I've been programming Python for a few years, and I'm the developer of two open-source projects, whose code you could inspect freely when you'll contact me privately. I have some experience with Django and I can maintain a LAMP stack. I am also interested in scientific computing.

Here's my anonymous contact email: anonymous.python.guy@gmail.com

Thanks.

Re: Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development

#3
You should hire me instead of him. I've been using python to do statistics and machine learning in a bioinformatics context for the last 15 years. Plus, if you don't, I'll kill this puppy. Isn't he cute? You wouldn't want to be responsible for his death, would you?

Re: Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development

#9

I'm trying to think of "famously aggressive" and "little", and all I can come up with is one of them Koreas.

Not necessary. It depends on your perspective. Israel, the Koreas, Cuba (from an American perspective), etc...

Re: Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development

#10
post #2

The standard advice I've heard is: Work for defense companies to learn the technology, and then leave to transfer this technology toward peaceful (and often lucrative) applications. Swords into Ploughshares.

Not all knowledge obtained by working in a defense organism would be transferable. You get probably less useful real-world knowledge by working there rather than any other place.
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