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Maybe what you can do is bring your software development skills to a more "jobby job"? You sound like someone who could easily be a one person back office for
by cbanek 9y ago
Maybe what you can do is bring your software development skills to a more "jobby job"? You sound like someone who could easily be a one person back office for a small company/local bank/corporate office, helping with tech, custom software, etc. Might be a good way to utilize your skills, but in a different culture.
I'm with you on the extreme pressure cooker that is tech jobs, and tech recruiting. It's almost as if the dial is either 0 or 11.
- brailsafe 9y agoThis is along the lines of what I'm asking myself and what I attempted to communicate in my question. To your second point, what I consider my most successful role was being the "webmaster" for a medium sized retailer. A sports retailer with a very foreign culture. Turns out, I do fairly well when given lots of responsibility with little micromanagement. Doing that again is not something I'd discount as a possibility, though so not something I've thought to pursue again. Perhaps I'll consider this and broaden my IT related search outside software dev. Could be worth a shot. It would certainly contrast your last sentiment which I agree with wholeheartedly.
- ljw1001 9y agoThere is a huge amount of research that shows that broad responsibilities (without micro-management) are correlated with high motivation. See the classic paper "One more time, How do you motivate employees" for a starting point. So much in dev and elsewhere depends on the specifics of the organization structure and who your manager is. Good luck.