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Comment by jimmaswell | Hacker News Reader

I work at a non-tech company. I mostly write/maintain unexciting components for a website's CMS, and any tertiary work around that. Easygoing, remote, great work/life balance, good pay. Often go fishing or work on projects like an ebike for a lot of the day, sporadically checking the work chat and tuning into meetings from my phone. On the rare occasion something really important comes up I'm always ready to jump in and give 100%. Established a good reputation and get great performance reviews for what I do. I'd probably never trade this for a job at Google et al with higher expectations and stress.

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My partner and I both have similar roles to yours, in non-tech companies. Sometimes we both feel like we’re not being ambitious enough… but we walk into town for two-hour lunches together 2-3 times per week, finish household errands on weekdays, and never have to worry about money. The initial transition from “working hard” to “hardly working” was difficult to settle into, but imo as long as we can keep up our skills with all this extra time, it’s a very enjoyable lifestyle.

I've got the same type of deal here. I just worry about skills getting outdated since I'm only working on an in-house system and doing mostly maintenance. But perhaps that fear is overblown.

I could easily hop to a gig with more responsibility and more opportunity for increasing my skills - but also more stress.

I feel like you'll never be out of a job long with a good work history, good references, and knowing your way around overall web development. Might not be enough for Facebook but it seems like enough for us.

What type and size company do you work for? And how did you find it?

That sounds like a pretty ideal scenario to me, but I'm not sure how to go about finding similar positions.

I don't want to make myself too identifiable, but it's a fairly big place and I lucked into it more than anything. Can't give any specific advice how to find a similar job besides looking for remote listings at non tech places.

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