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> There are plenty of boring corporate jobs where you can put in your 40 hours a week and go home. Where does one find those? And how well do they pay? I’ve b
by somethingsimple 8y ago
> There are plenty of boring corporate jobs where you can put in your 40 hours a week and go home.
Where does one find those? And how well do they pay?
I’ve been at points in my career where I felt overwhelmed by the need to learn a new thing every other week, and I just wanted to quit and find one of those elusive “40 hour a week comfy corporate job”, but I have no idea where to find that.
Every company these days seems to be rewriting their stack and moving to the cloud and whatnot. Sometimes I wish I could just find a boring job where I just write Java every day and don’t need to care about much else.
- scarface74 8y agoMost major cities outside of the west coast allow you to find boring corporate jobs. https://www.matrixres.com/resources/salary-survey https://www.matrixres.com/resources/salary-survey The cost of living in most of those cities are much lower and there are plenty of jobs. "A boring job" doesn't mean you don't have to keep learning new technology. A boring job means you can work 40 hours a week and not try to chsnge the world.
- osrec 8y agoTry contracting in investment banking technology. There are plenty of legacy Java and C++ systems that need support and maintenance. Often provides a very nice living for a large number of developers. I even know a perl guy earning 800 GBP a day for maintaining some scripts for a market risk system. All the scripts do is clean up some CSV files! Also, the guy leaves at 4:30 pm on the dot.