[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you find a "boring" tech job?
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Ask HN: How do you find a "boring" tech job?
I've worked at startups as an engineer for several years now and
I'm sick of it. The stress vs. what I get out of it isn't worth it
anymore, and it significantly impacted my health in the process. I
want a boring job with boring tech at a larger boring company with
stability and predictability. I just don't know where to begin
looking. How do I figure this out?
Author : afflicted
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-07-01 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago)
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| I'm self employed as an on-call IT guy. I like it well enough.
| It's not data-entry but it's down there.
| hilux wrote:
| Just apply to a big company. Any big company should do, but to be
| on the safe side, apply to an IT job where the employer is not a
| "tech company."
|
| Government and university jobs are boring too!
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| > apply to an IT job where the employer is not a "tech
| company."
|
| Seriously. Yes. This.
|
| Being an IT guy for Med/Auto/Pharma/Law/etc, I wasn't fodder
| for management. Even in more techy industries (GeoThermal, web
| retailer) everyone was nice to the IT guy.
| oldpersonintx wrote:
| Apply to Cisco. Not a joke.
|
| But be forewarned they layoff a lot of people (but never for
| individual performance reasons). But so do most of the boring
| companies these days.
| yieldcrv wrote:
| Public sector, public sector contracting
| pipes wrote:
| Financial services. Been in this for a few years now and the
| pension, benefits etc are just way better than anything I've seen
| at my level in the uk. Great for having kids, 6 months paid
| parental leave. Sensible people. Older developers. Also the
| domain knowledge is directly transferable to my own life
| (understanding financial instruments). I doubt I'll leave this
| sector now.
| neoplatonian wrote:
| Any way to get in touch with you?
| sneed_chucker wrote:
| Apply to any SWE/DevOps/SysAdmin/IT role at a Fortune 500 company
| that isn't a tech company.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| > _I 've worked at startups as an engineer for several years now
| and I'm sick of it._
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| > _a larger boring company with stability and predictability._
|
| I mean, it sounds like you've got it already figured out - don't
| apply to startups, apply to large companies. Most of them are
| rather boring, although many have internal politics and other
| issues that are unfortunately rather exciting.
| Frummy wrote:
| Mainframe is as boring and stable as it gets Have fun or rather
| have boredom
| austin-cheney wrote:
| Banks, government, military, insurance, and so on.
| lupire wrote:
| I think subby's asking how to find these jobs, not ask about the
| existence of non-start up companies.
| afflicted wrote:
| Yes, exactly. I know these companies exist, but from looking
| for the last few days, a lot of them seem to not believe so
| much in remote work. This makes it challenging for me, as I
| have a disability (degenerative nerve condition) that makes it
| physically quite difficult to get into an office. This
| constraint around remote work is what had me working for
| startups in the first place
| tryauuum wrote:
| HPC
| bicx wrote:
| Large insurance companies have a lot of tech jobs and they are
| boring as hell.
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