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I work fintech, which is one of the more soulless fields. But I love it. We're building financial infrastructure for SE Asia. I had a ecommerce startup 5 years
by muzani 4y ago
I work fintech, which is one of the more soulless fields. But I love it. We're building financial infrastructure for SE Asia.
I had a ecommerce startup 5 years ago and we couldn't take credit cards, because payment gateways sucked, and the chain of effort around legally doing it was too much for a startup. So 40% of the work was just validating payment, and the other 40% was logistics, which left us very little room to grow.
I think it's satisfying to do B2B stuff so the B2C folk can just focus on being creative and doing what they're good at. I mean as FE I end up doing mostly B2C, but there's a lot of wiring under the hood, and we do things that the competitors have trouble with.
Even when I did e-commerce, it was very satisfying. We sold health ingredients. This stuff was easily accessible in urban places, but we got it into more rural areas. One notable testimonial was a woman whose husband cheated on her because she was fat, and the app helped her take control of that and start eating healthy. But the community ended up a little cult like (people were dieting to the point of passing out), and we realized we created a monster and sold the company.
I think the field doesn't really matter, as much as the company you're working in caring about the people they serve.
- jameshush 4y agoI agree with your last sentence. I spent years in adtech (equally soulless hahahaha). Honestly the people were great, management was happy, employees were happy. We had an office a 5 minute walk away from venice beach in los angeles. Daily work was gluing together questionably written at best ad libraries. There weren't many promotion opportunities because the business grew horizontally by acquiring other websites. I ended up moving to Taiwan because I wanted to get better at Chinese and wanted to escape COVID in California, but otherwise working in a soulless field with great people was a good experience.
- apohn 4y ago>I think the field doesn't really matter, as much as the company you're working in caring about the people they serve. 100% Agree.