Re:Ask HN: How to find intellectually challenging work?
by aristofun on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:16PM
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Fp is not a ticket to interesting job in any ways.
You can’t imagine how abundant are boring projects and products made of scala :)
This is not about language or current hype.
Hard to say with confidence because of very scarce signals, but probably you want to find a job with 2 features:
1. Very early stage of a software
2. Very ambitious software itself (like a new db on a competitive market, new game engine)
Most of the “boring” jobs are not about developing the software per se, but rather about _using_ (wiring up, cobbling up, tuning, integrating) pieces of existing software to shove data around.
That what makes it boring in a nutshell - lack of the aha moment of creating something new.
You can’t imagine how abundant are boring projects and products made of scala :)
This is not about language or current hype.
Hard to say with confidence because of very scarce signals, but probably you want to find a job with 2 features: 1. Very early stage of a software 2. Very ambitious software itself (like a new db on a competitive market, new game engine)
Most of the “boring” jobs are not about developing the software per se, but rather about _using_ (wiring up, cobbling up, tuning, integrating) pieces of existing software to shove data around.
That what makes it boring in a nutshell - lack of the aha moment of creating something new.