> ”being immersed in a culture of likeminded individuals and going to events all over the city every night to share thoughts with them”
This would be my nightmare. I do genuinely love tech and startups, but talking shop with strangers quickly feels hollow. At conferences I was always looking to escape by the end of first day lunch and maybe go to a local museum instead.
Re:Tech Jobs Are Everywhere Now
by seattle_spring on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:29PM
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It was my nightmare, and it's why I left the Bay. Some random guy grilling me on JS trivia at a party was the last straw.
I actually like going to tech events and am glad they're starting back up again. I find the interactions and connections both fun and useful. That said the Bay Area "If it's Tuesday, it must be a Kubernetes Meetup, if it's Wednesday..." thing pretty tiring pretty quickly.
>That said the Bay Area "If it's Tuesday, it must be a Kubernetes Meetup, if it's Wednesday..." thing pretty tiring pretty quickly.
Depends on where you're at in life, honestly. I'd never want to do it again as a grown adult with a family, but when you're young it's a blast. Eventually it doesn't even matter what the meetup is about anymore, it's just about the free pizza, beer, and networking. And as a broke 22 year old paying bay area rent prices, I practically lived off the stuff.
Do you think that environment will come back at some point? I think it is powerful to immerse yourself in such an environment and I would like to have that experience at some point in my career.
I haven't been to CA for a couple years at this point. There's still a lot of tech industry there. I assume that, for better or worse, the Bay Area goes back to tech being at the center of many things--which as I suggest is good or bad depending if you want all tech all the time or not.
There really was something special about the time and place of San Francisco from the late 2000s up to 2020. The energy that place had was like nothing else I've ever experienced. You can absolutely make great software fully remote. But there's something to be said for being immersed in a culture of likeminded individuals and going to events all over the city every night to share thoughts with them. I'm eternally grateful for having spent the beginning of my career in that environment.