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Re:What's Wrong with Tech Hiring by bykhun on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:55AM (#28552620)
> I was quite willing to work for a lot less than many folks much less qualified, on account of having my retirement set, and was looking for interesting and engaging work, more than money; but it never got that far.

Did you think to work with blockchain? It has a lot of engaging problems, and you can start even without getting hired. It ranges from helping out DAOs in open-source and getting paid in tokens; to starting off your own small project and building a community.

As for the jobs, the compensations has been through the roof lately – the field doesn't get new developers nearly at the rate needed

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Re:What's Wrong with Tech Hiring by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#28552795)
It looks interesting, but it's not really what I like doing.

I enjoy working on stuff that people use. Things that the user interacts with directly; like UIs and devices.

I did a bunch of work with Bluetooth, OBD, and ONVIF (surveillance), but I'm working on what is sort of a "social media" app, now. I wrote the backend for one of the servers we use, and was the original author of another of the servers. These were big projects.

The interesting part, however, is the iOS app that I'm developing. Trying out different ways of presenting to the user, and interacting with the user, is a lot of fun.

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Re:What's Wrong with Tech Hiring by occupant on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:26PM (#28554566)
> It ranges from helping out DAOs in open-source ...

Do you know of any good articles or guides about getting started with this for complete beginners to blockchain?

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