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May I ask approximately how old you are and what field you're working in? (Or, being passionate in?) I feel like this is not a realistic view to sustain in mos

by 1dom 1y ago

May I ask approximately how old you are and what field you're working in? (Or, being passionate in?) I feel like this is not a realistic view to sustain in most modern tech environments, unless you love inefficiently producing ineffective solutions that just so happens to be profitable, or you job hop every 1 - 2 years.

distances 1y ago
One option is to become a freelancer, there you usually get a new project every 6-18 months in my experience.
- 1dom 1y ago
  There's a whole categories of skills, abilities and problems that are never confronted if a person changes job every <2 years. Hot take: what if the rise in enshittification and crap tech is because good tech can only be produced with the hindsight of a stable tech career from a stable tech employer?
  - distances 1y ago
    That's a different topic though. This was about passion in coding for living. I don't think it's the employee's responsibility to stay in one company if the stability and in-house career path options are questionable, as usually is the case.
m-a-r-c-e-l 1y ago
47 now First company with 23, sold with 33. Second + third company founded with 36, sold at 46. I was the software engineer in the founders team, built alot by myself, even in the last years with a tech department of 30 people. After doing nothing for 1.5 years, I am back with a new startup, being the only developer. Because I love it, and I am good at it! It's my passion...
- 1dom 1y ago
  Interesting, thanks! I feel like that kind of confirms my position: you're not someone who has the same passion for coding, you have a stronger passion for building, leading and selling tech companies, which is why you've done that multiple times. I've never been a founding engineer, but typically a direct report to founding engineers. The people I worked with in your position were either like you (e.g. enjoyed programming but clearly got a big rush from the business and money side too) or they were genuinely just pure passionate programmers and miserable, as their role takes them away from that.

by 1dom 1y ago

distances 1y ago

One option is to become a freelancer, there you usually get a new project every 6-18 months in my experience.

1dom 1y ago
There's a whole categories of skills, abilities and problems that are never confronted if a person changes job every <2 years. Hot take: what if the rise in enshittification and crap tech is because good tech can only be produced with the hindsight of a stable tech career from a stable tech employer?
- distances 1y ago
  That's a different topic though. This was about passion in coding for living. I don't think it's the employee's responsibility to stay in one company if the stability and in-house career path options are questionable, as usually is the case.

m-a-r-c-e-l 1y ago

47 now First company with 23, sold with 33. Second + third company founded with 36, sold at 46. I was the software engineer in the founders team, built alot by myself, even in the last years with a tech department of 30 people. After doing nothing for 1.5 years, I am back with a new startup, being the only developer. Because I love it, and I am good at it! It's my passion...

1dom 1y ago
Interesting, thanks! I feel like that kind of confirms my position: you're not someone who has the same passion for coding, you have a stronger passion for building, leading and selling tech companies, which is why you've done that multiple times. I've never been a founding engineer, but typically a direct report to founding engineers. The people I worked with in your position were either like you (e.g. enjoyed programming but clearly got a big rush from the business and money side too) or they were genuinely just pure passionate programmers and miserable, as their role takes them away from that.