HACKER Q&A
📣 swansonator

What’s Next?


Appreciate any feedback from fellow HN folks.

Have been a web developer/engineer for 10-15 years now. Have a great stable job, but not 100% loving the work.

Recently switched jobs and increased my pay over 100%, but it’s really not about the money. While it’s amazing that companies are paying this, not sure if this ticket type of work is for me. I would say I’m loyal and prefer working on one solid goal for a company. The current company I work with has me split on a few projects and the context switching is very difficult. I’d ultimately like to move to DevOps, and there seems to be a path towards that, but not anytime soon. Am I impatient?

I’ve also been considering completely moving away from tech. I love tech and building things, but the longer I work in development and engineering, the harder it is to keep focus and justify the time vs the compensation for all the time in front of a screen.


  👤 ss108 Accepted Answer ✓
> I’ve also been considering completely moving away from tech. I love tech and building things, but the longer I work in development and engineering, the harder it is to keep focus and justify the time vs the compensation for all the time in front of a screen.

What else do you think you'd do?

I moved from dev to law. I had less experience than you. I am trying to jump back into tech ASAP.

I can explain more about my thought process and stuff if you'd like.


👤 euroderf
I moved from software dev to technical writing. It uses a different part of your brain, and yet a technical background can be an advantage in TC - not all tech writers have a tech background!

👤 p0d
My life has been tech and making things (outdoors) as a hobby for quite a few years. Working on physical projects has been an antidote to sitting on my rear all week.

👤 vp8989
Wouldn't a DevOps role have more context switching?

👤 nine_zeros
Join a startup with a bit more chaos and lesser management heavy processes, ticket tracking, spreadsheet, charts and management speak garbage.

👤 jasfi
Consider starting your own business. I'm aiming to help people like yourself startup: https://cxo.industries

👤 kleer001
do something real with your hands, something heavy and hot and dangerous and dirty

get away from computers