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wildcow | 3 years ago

I have felt exactly like that! I was a consultant for 12 years doing ecommerce. The last year was me trying to do things right but always got hammered with the "customers needs this so just do the easiest thing right get there". I hated it. I discovered that it has always been like this in that company so i decided to go look for something new: an internal IT department for a company that actually cared about its own products. My plan was simple: say yes to all offers i got through eg LinkedIn and see where it brought me. Most important thing: i minimized my efforts at my current job. I said to my self it was okay, because noe i wanted to that job that brought back: pride for doing software, had a real goal for doing quality, test and maintance and lets the devs redo parts of the system when we thought it needed it.

After one year i did find my current job. It came out of nowhere and because i just said yes to everything. Actually when i said yes to go for an interview for this company i work at now, i thought "this isn't going nowhere because this is an old company with legacy code and nothing new, but i have promised to say yes"

I landed the best job in the world. And i actually found out that the new teams they hired wasn't legacy teams but doing .NET core, k8s, docker, dapper etc. I can even install Linux on my laptop if i want to.

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Existenceblinks|3 years ago

Good! I can't make myself say yes to everything. Do the best job really exist?

karmakaze|3 years ago

This is also very true for me. I've taken jobs from many unusual circumstances just by being 'open to discussion'--not even thinking of saying yes. I've started talks about work from a person that sold me their used car, companies on Who's hiring that used a tech stack I was uninterested in, hiring stunt programming contest, a 5 person local startup using PHP that had no tech lead, dev culture that was foreign to me (pair programming 8 hours a day), following everyone else in an aquihire of small startup to a large company. There's a lot of value in variety and dumb luck.