Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by muzani on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:29AM (#26722301)

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I've actually tried to hire dispassionate people before.

One was an assembly line style UI job with no future - the API was solid, the UI was designed by someone else. It just needed someone who could glue the parts, and repeat the same job forever, with minor API updates every now and then.

Another was a teaching job. Beginner HTML/CSS/Node.js. Come in 35 hours a week, actual necessary work is 12 hours/week. It's probably a dead end job, but it's a cash cow. Some graduates managed to go from becoming Uber drivers to junior developers who made the same salary with little manual labor, so the job brought benefit to society.

There's too many passionate people in the industry who just won't take these kinds of jobs.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by forinti on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:28AM (#26723835)

The positive side of dispassionate people is that they won't write a new framework just to solve some tiny little task.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by alex504 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:06PM (#26726899)

I was never the type of person to try to write a framework to solve a tiny little task, but I am probably 50% more effective with my time since I stopped caring about my job. I am not stressed out at all and that makes a massive difference.

That being said I probably work about 75% less (~10 - 15 hours a week if I'm being honest) so the joke is still on my employer.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by ozim on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:57AM (#26722572)

I would be too afraid that such cash cow dies at the time I still need it and I won't have skills to find something quickly again.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by lmueongoqx on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:46AM (#26722494)

Nice. I'll look for one of those. I'd be perfectly content having some designs/specs handed out and implementing them.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by muzani on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:16AM (#26722723)

First was with a Huawei partner. They do certifications for this, full training, gave a checklist of what to do, and how to handle every error code. It pays bloody well for blue collar work. The work was done remotely at the time.

You could probably find similar work with some other tech giant that outsources routine work to agencies.

Second was with a major coding bootcamp that had a partnership with an educational institution. The person who created the syllabus went on to do his own course. They tried to hire me, literally saying that I could play games all day, freelance, come in late. The downside is tech moves, so you still have to keep up, even if it's beginner level.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by lmueongoqx on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:25AM (#26722789)

I'll look into those. Thanks.

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