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I think you just need to be ruthless about what you work on. Probably 90% of jobs inside a big tech company are boring. Outside big tech it’s even worse. Refuse

I think you just need to be ruthless about what you work on. Probably 90% of jobs inside a big tech company are boring. Outside big tech it’s even worse. Refuse to work on old systems, any technical debt, on teams with bad developers, on any complicated proprietary infrastructure, avoid customer facing systems, critical services, etc. find out where the product is actively evolving, where you are building the first pieces.

burntoutfire 4y ago
> Refuse to work on old systems, any technical debt, on teams with bad developers, on any complicated proprietary infrastructure, avoid customer facing systems, critical services, etc. I'm afraid that when you discard the above, there's hardly anything left. You need to be very high status to work exclusively on such projects.