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Maybe some of these companies see DoodleDocs and wonder if you'd be a bad fit for a CRUD type position? Like, you've already gone beyond a lot of those basic n

Maybe some of these companies see DoodleDocs and wonder if you'd be a bad fit for a CRUD type position? Like, you've already gone beyond a lot of those basic needs, so why would you "step down" to a CRUD job?

melvinroest 7y ago
Good point: I do have a hard time communicating why I'm fine with a CRUD position. Because sometimes I think things are self-evident, when they're not and then I poorly communicate them. One of the reasons is: when you look at my resume (I'm Googleable), I am simply just starting out. And just doing the grind for 2 or more years would ground me in what I've experienced the past 8 years during my studies and jobs I did while studying.
- lowercased 7y ago
  "I'm fine with a CRUD position" Are you? Then put together some CRUD line of business stuff. You may actually find you don't like it, or get 'too creative', or... whatever. Build a small CRM. Allow people to add doodles to the user records. Case solved...
  - melvinroest 7y ago
    Will do, thanks for the tip!
non-entity 7y ago
Dont "CRUD" jobs make up a large majority of the jobs for software developers?
- melvinroest 7y ago
  Yea, in fact, there are some HN comments (can't find sources) that feel discouraged by this because they want to work on more technically interesting things. Like a C++ compiler or a distributed system. But instead they write CRUD apps and seem to feel sad about it. I'm a bit different in that sense as challenging programming hurts my brain a lot (and yet I still continue with it, no pain no gain they say). Which is why I think I might like CRUD because that doesn't hurt my brain a lot, yet you still get to create beautiful things.