Ask HN: Any decent jobs that one can coast through?
Are there any jobs or industries that are easy and on ecan just coast in? I'm tired of my current company always wanting to squeeze more out of me without more pay. I'd rather have an easy job that I can just coast at instead of constant politics and pressure to advance.
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2. Avoid sales engineering where you are either billable, have targets or have a million customers.
3. Find a group/area going through lots of growth (cloud is the spotGCP/Azure/AWS). It's much easier to ride the macro waves. Avoid groups with lots of competition/in-fighting.
4. Make friends and be good company. People prefer good company over good workers.
5. The longer your tenure, the more likely you are able to engineer whatever role you want to have. You will also have the network to support you.
do you mean the people working in product. i.e. PMs?
Although these companies create artificially high barriers, most of the work is pretty ordinary and my colleagues are pretty ordinary too. That's totally OK because people would be very unsatisfied and leave if they were working too long below their ability/aspiration.
Sure, there are the big throbbing brains here and there but that's maybe a few percent. Most SWEs are just stringing APIs together, doing boring YAML work or whiling away their days in meetings.
Also, places with lots of B and C players usually are easy to coast through. The thinking is you can do less, still be better than these people, and not get fired. The trick is to not show you know TOO much though. Otherwise you'll get a ton of work on your plate that these B/C players can't do.
"Ask HN: Where Are the Easy Jobs?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854348 by giantg2 | 8 months ago | 22 points | 39 comments
Also see "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721951 by lmueongoqx | on April 7, 2021 | 2022 points | 1115 comments
and possibly "Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31001537 by throw1138 | 72 days ago | 247 points | 220 comments
I have an interview to switch to a different team in my company. That should cut back on the context switching and allow me to focus on one stack, and mostly UI at that. It will still have the corporate policies and BS like any other team at the company. I'm hoping there's another idea I haven't heard yet. I'll check out those posts. Thanks!