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Ask HN: What’s Next?
Appreciate any feedback from fellow HN folks.
Have been a web developer/engineer for 10-15 years now. Have a great stable job, but not 100% loving the work.
Recently switched jobs and increased my pay over 100%, but it’s really not about the money. While it’s amazing that companies are paying this, not sure if this ticket type of work is for me. I would say I’m loyal and prefer working on one solid goal for a company. The current company I work with has me split on a few projects and the context switching is very difficult. I’d ultimately like to move to DevOps, and there seems to be a path towards that, but not anytime soon. Am I impatient?
I’ve also been considering completely moving away from tech. I love tech and building things, but the longer I work in development and engineering, the harder it is to keep focus and justify the time vs the compensation for all the time in front of a screen.
- ss108 5y ago> I’ve also been considering completely moving away from tech. I love tech and building things, but the longer I work in development and engineering, the harder it is to keep focus and justify the time vs the compensation for all the time in front of a screen. What else do you think you'd do? I moved from dev to law. I had less experience than you. I am trying to jump back into tech ASAP. I can explain more about my thought process and stuff if you'd like.
- p0d 5y agoMy life has been tech and making things (outdoors) as a hobby for quite a few years. Working on physical projects has been an antidote to sitting on my rear all week.
- vp8989 5y agoWouldn't a DevOps role have more context switching?
- yuppie_scum 5y agoYes, at best in DevOps you might get to work a project for a day or two before being yanked in a completely different direction.
- ingvul 5y agoDevOps usually need to be on-call (paid) rotations. That sucks.
- dimitar 5y agoI currently have to juggle Build & Release Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring tools, Building images, Configuration management, some DB admin. The context switching is almost a defining feature of modern DevOPS/Operations/SysAdmin/Infrastructure Engineer jobs, unless you are working in a pretty big company that allows you to specialise. On the other hand if you get a job dealing with only build pipelines or only Kubernetes maintenance it will get boring in a while. Best is to rotate between projects, and have different team members build expertise on some area.
- jasfi 5y agoConsider starting your own business. I'm aiming to help people like yourself startup: https://cxo.industries https://cxo.industries
- nine_zeros 5y agoJoin a startup with a bit more chaos and lesser management heavy processes, ticket tracking, spreadsheet, charts and management speak garbage.
- euroderf 5y agoI moved from software dev to technical writing. It uses a different part of your brain, and yet a technical background can be an advantage in TC - not all tech writers have a tech background!
- kleer001 5y agodo something real with your hands, something heavy and hot and dangerous and dirty get away from computers