[anth_anm]

Another article about how hard it is doesn't mention the hardest part of all.

Getting to a place where you will ever get a chance to work on this stuff.

I tried joining a team working on it. Figured I wouldn't get to do a lot, but it was a foot in the door sort of situation.

By the time I quit I had managed 7 months without doing a thing, and 3 more where I wasn't even trying anymore.

Meanwhile the guys who built the thing all got pulled to work on the next big thing. Maybe they were just amazing engineers.

Maybe getting hired out of college and putting right onto a massive distributed systems project is the only fucking way to ever get your foot in the door.

I'm not gonna let this article ruin my day. It's pointless. I can think about how colossally fucked my career is on monday.

[appwiz]

OT but relevant to your comment. AWS is hiring for various service teams[1]. I highly recommend it as the place to be if you want to work on massive distributed systems. DM me on Twitter if any of those jobs appeals to you.

[1] http://bit.ly/2L8cPHL