[HN Gopher] The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career...
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The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions
Author : yarapavan
Score : 26 points
Date : 2023-08-18 16:52 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| alephnerd wrote:
| This is an amazing framework. I'm definetly sending this to my
| interns.
| ciupicri wrote:
| All I see is a blank white page with a popup inviting me to
| subscribe with no cancel button.
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| agreed its disappointing I wanted to read not subscribe
| moritzwarhier wrote:
| Bur does it support client-side interactions?
|
| Sorry, stupid pun, it's Friday night here.
|
| I usually avoid career-related content, and the headline got me
| with its intentional-or-not ambiguity.
|
| If you think I'm rambling nonsense, I was talking about next.js,
| and this still lines up pretty well with the first paragraph.
|
| I have to admit that I didn't read the full FA, so I'm spending
| more time commenting than reading.
|
| But the advice in the first money quote is good, I think.
|
| I switched jobs fairly recently. I don't do this frequently.
| chias wrote:
| I asked myself a very related set of questions which helped me
| realize it was time to switch jobs:
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| 1. fast-forward and picture myself at my own retirement, assuming
| reasonable progression based on my current trajectory.
|
| 2. from there, reminisce about when I was at the peak of my
| career, really at the top of my game, the most accomplished I
| ever was.
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| 3. am I satisfied with that peak?
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| If not, then there is a problem with my current trajectory and it
| needs to change.
| outside1234 wrote:
| The reality, though, is that you have no idea what your next next
| job is.
|
| I would have NEVER predicted my job would be in AI two jobs ago.
|
| This is the challenge with these frameworks - you really can't
| look beyond one corner in tech -- and especially software
| angarg12 wrote:
| The problem I always find with these "career decision frameworks"
| is that they vastly underestimate the randomness of life. Also
| they always seem to come from people whose problems were "should
| I work for high flying startup or start a new company with my Ivy
| league buddies?", with massive survivorship biases.
|
| Point in case: in 2019 I had to make the decision of whether to
| relocate to the US or stay in the UK. My wife had just gotten a
| job after a long unemployment period. We ran all kind of
| alternative scenarios and "simulations" in our mind, calculating
| the pros, cons, and probabilities of each outcome. We finally
| decided to stay in the UK one year longer, in order to give her
| some working experience and confindence.
|
| Then in 2020 we got Covid and all of my plans ended in the
| gutter.
|
| All of this advice is great, so long as you accept that you are
| only slightly reducing the chaos and randomness of real life.
| Swizec wrote:
| > so long as you accept that you are only slightly reducing the
| chaos and randomness
|
| Life is not chess, it's poker. Gently putting your thumb on the
| scales is the best we can do.
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| Certainty is an illusion, only probabilities are real. So what
| you do isn't "Plan the next 10 years", it's "Make $goodOutcome
| a little more likely than $badOutcome", then adjust in real-
| time as the situation changes.
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