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Some others that come to mind: 1. consulting 2. IT service firms (you have to be the owner of course) 3. being experienced in a really boring but useful
by goethes_kind 4y ago
Some others that come to mind:
1. consulting
2. IT service firms (you have to be the owner of course)
3. being experienced in a really boring but useful niche: e.g. Wordpress plugins
4. having a cousin who works for the local gov and can help you win IT contracts
I think of all these fall in the same category: owner of tech/IT firm who provides boring but useful services and can get constant work.
- lesuorac 4y agoI've heard for 4) you don't even need a cousin and that so few people bid on stuff you can do well. The problem is that you'd need to get setup to bid on the contracts which afaik is a huge pia.
- fHr 4y agoNo money in the world could bring me back to wordpress plugin developement. What an actual clusterfuck that shit was. Done it for 2 years on my first internship... I never want to return to that hellish place. Php yikers
- grepfru_it 4y agoSimilarly, no chance I’m ever going back to government work. It’s so slow to get anything done. So many approvals and nitpicking and meetings to talk about nothing.. I went back to try to bid on a contract right before Covid and immediately noped my way out of there because I forgot that the feds already have a contractor decided. the bidding process is just a sham to cherry-pick the good engineers from a struggling firm
- adamhp 4y agoWhat do you do now? I'm currently in gov but it's not my favorite, for the reasons you mentioned...
- grepfru_it 4y agoHey sorry for the late reply. I was doing software engineering for a FAANG but that ended earlier this year for my regularly scheduled sabbatical. I have been spending the last few months doing market research and building an open source cloud platform for giggles