Personally, I'm going insane with my job. I'm supposed to be a sys admin, but after automating 90% of my work I'm a glorified helpdesk worker. The first couple of years were fun for me because I had a massive pile of shit to fix, but now it's no good.
Unfortunately, my external debts make a requirement that I have to stick at this job (I'd love to just blow them off, but wife and all of that). I can't find anything posted in my region that pays as well, I don't have enough saved to move (and no, that's not something likely to happen soon).
So, obviously for me it's cash and a new pile of shit to work on.
What would get you to move to a new job?
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[–] mineMineMINE [S] ago
I've been wanting to be in devops forever. Seriously, I used to program in about 5 languages fluently (Haskell, Scala, C/C++, Java, X86-64 Assembler), but now it's just down to Haskell which is too unknown to really get me anywhere. The SysAdmin role was thrown on me (when getting into the field I turned down 3 job offers because they said they needed sys admins and because I took a course on it in college I got the return call) when I was told I'd be moving into business analytics. Admittedly, I do use those skills (and my team would be humped if I didn't understand languages like I do), but it's primarily about usage reports or can I build some stupid sql script.
Unfortunately, I'm not that smart to continue in the IT field. I don't follow the trends, and I went into programming as a method of developing new and interesting things (oh, that was a mistake, should have stuck with chemistry and went into material science). AI is a simple enough concept, but I'd have to sink a good year into developing one to really understand it (I don't learn top down very well). And, going for a higher degree would be a suicide trip (I'm shit at school, no idea why, do wonders at work but somehow the work ethic doesn't translate over to school. Maybe because I'm trying to learn instead of pass ???)
But, if it wasn't me. You're advice would be a perfect fit for most people. ML is going to be a developing (and thereby a simplifying) field that will be heading the tech trends for at least a decade.
Think at this point I need to find something new I can throw myself into for a decade. Already covered a good bit of philosophy and politics, economics would be interesting.
[–] TheBuddha 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hit up HN and on the first of the month they have a who's hiring thread. There's almost always someone looking for Haskell skills and paying well because few people are doing it any more. My understanding is that it's actually pretty easy to get a job right now. It's just that they all kind of suck and you probably won't be better appreciated - unless you get in with a good company or are a rock star developer or whatnot.
They all seem to think of IT as a cost center, without actually realizing that they'd be sunk without it. From an outsider looking in, it's batshit crazy. I've been retired for a bit more than a decade and I've just watched the stories get worse and worse. I can't opine, because I'm not there, but it's to the point where some of the smartest geeks I know have gone off to be shit like plumbers or electricians.
[–] mineMineMINE [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The pay is better and they only have to take shit from a pipe.
I try to avoid YC like the plague. Don't really know why, but something about the place just doesn't mesh with my personality. Then again I've also seen the place as being part of the problem, or maybe they're just highlighting it. I'm really not sure. But, that also gets into my issues of moving. Unless some place is willing to cover moving costs that option is out for another 3-4 years.