Re:What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:39PM
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Sure, but I am now officially past the willingness to waste time, making random people happy. A couple of years ago, I was willing to do this, but no longer. It was made fairly clear that the new tech field doesn’t have room for an old war horse.
Since I already have a very substantial "nest egg," it was time to just start living off that, and doing work that I want to do.
I immediately sought out some folks that wanted to do a free app (it actually has monetization potential, but we aren't really paying attention to that, right now) that would help recovering drug addicts network and support each other. They were not having much luck, getting people to take their effort seriously.
I already had a full-fledged generic application server that I had written, just for practice[0], so I said that I'd build them a frontend, based on that server, and I'd do it for free, because I like to code, I figured that I'd learn something (I haven't done a social media app, yet), and it would give me a chance to develop some theories about hyper-flexible software methodologies that I'd had kicking around. I knew they didn't actually have a clear vision for their product, and I knew that I could develop it in a way that would help them to refine it. I just got off a video call with the CEO and a backend guy, where we mapped out a "bare spot" that needs paving. I guarantee that many startups would absolutely drool over the process we are using to develop this app.
It's been great. I haven't been this happy in my entire career.
Since I already have a very substantial "nest egg," it was time to just start living off that, and doing work that I want to do.
I immediately sought out some folks that wanted to do a free app (it actually has monetization potential, but we aren't really paying attention to that, right now) that would help recovering drug addicts network and support each other. They were not having much luck, getting people to take their effort seriously.
I already had a full-fledged generic application server that I had written, just for practice[0], so I said that I'd build them a frontend, based on that server, and I'd do it for free, because I like to code, I figured that I'd learn something (I haven't done a social media app, yet), and it would give me a chance to develop some theories about hyper-flexible software methodologies that I'd had kicking around. I knew they didn't actually have a clear vision for their product, and I knew that I could develop it in a way that would help them to refine it. I just got off a video call with the CEO and a backend guy, where we mapped out a "bare spot" that needs paving. I guarantee that many startups would absolutely drool over the process we are using to develop this app.
It's been great. I haven't been this happy in my entire career.
[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...