I'm a software dev and i've been working corporate america for a decade and i hate it. i hate every second of every day. i've tried applying for non profits and government jobs and the entire job market is total balls. i've been trying to find something else for half a year and 100+ job applications.

I want to do something menial like project management. Something sitting at a desk. Something that isn't very mentally straining like the software engineering I'm doing now.

I want to work with cool people.

I want to work in an environment where I don't have to justify breathing the oxygen in their office.

I want to have a nice boss.

I don't care if the pay is shit.

How can i find something like this? How does one approach a job search if what you care about most is cool coworkers and doesn't care at all what the job is (aside from it being a desk job) or how much it pays?

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    Have you thought about ops or sysadmin? You work on hard stuff occasionally but otherwise it's mostly pretty rote, and is an easy shift from software engineering. Ymmv based on the company itself but an infra job at a chill company can be very chill 90% of the time

    • Vayeate [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I have actually. I've heard stories of people just playing WoW 90% of the time and fixing shit and answering tickets the other 10%. My problem with that is it's extremely certification based which I loathe, and the bottom bracket of work and pay is absolute garbage. I hate the idea of making minimum wage with some 18 year old installing updates on laptops for 9 hours a day.