As long as your fine with Java, then there's nothing that terrible with the enterprise stuff, and you'll get more free time due to other people blocking your work.
> and you'll get more free time due to other people blocking your work.
It's fine with me. You'll burn yourself out trying to get everything complete and I like have a fixed point where the system becomes too slow and reminds me to log off. And it's really not my fault, I wouldn't do half the things they want us to do, because it terrible "Enterprise Architecture". But they require it, everything is slow and it's not my fault as I've already made suggestions on how to improve it. But I'm not Enterprise Architecture, so what do I know?
If the job is boring but the employment agreement puts your hobby projects at risk, because they can assert ownership is it worth it?
I'm guessing it's totally boring until you invent a novel algorithm as a hobby, at which point they are suddenly highly interested in being cutting edge and taking your creation.
I assume to escape this I need to go to a smaller non-tech company, but I assume I'd be exchanging one problem for another unknown one.
I asked them if they offered a company laptop, they thought the idea was absurd. Some are still writing blogs on how Agile worked for them.
I didn't get a second interview; the first wasn't even technical. I guess I wasn't a cultural fit, compensation fit, or they didn't know what to make of my CV at the time.
Apply to X for a coasting job where you're sort of prepared when it's slow, but absolutely unequipped to handle situations if the pace accelerates.
Most of my 10 years has been working for startup size companies. It was fun at times, then it became stressing, too much work, too much time etc. Specially when I worked in a digital agency, working for clients tech products is horrible and stressing.
I finally changed job to a huge company B2B, non tech, but needs tech for their customers. They move SLOW, Steady, and with structure. They work for their own product.
I find that I work on tickets that, in my old job (startup) I would've had to do in a few hours, and here I can take a couple days and open a PR that has been battle tested, done with time, and no stress. Much much better quality.
I love my job now. And I feel I'm actually gaining such a valuable experience! I'm never going back to how I worked for 10 years
Government and university jobs are boring too!
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.
I work for an R&D company associated with DoE. I don't work more than 40 hours a week and occasionally as few as 20 hours a week. Every now and then I get an itch to apply to a startup and then I remember those 80-hour weeks I used to work at startups.
I think startups are just bad value proposition for most employees. You might work similar hours in IB, but at least you get comped in cash...
I just dodged a bullet recently interviewing with an old boss of mine who wanted to use container orchestration for a perfectly working set of 40+ apps. They use docker in VMs as of now already, but they absolutely want kube or swarm, the reason being that "it's too complicated to manage the capacity planning for the VMs". Yeah let's add an extra layer of clustering and complexity for internal apps that will never scale just so that you feel good about having "an orchestrator", because you don't want to take a couple days to look at CPU/RAM usage and resize your infra.
Ultimately, you just have to take a look at what you are good at, and what companies are likely to value that.
I’ve worked in Java most of my career and anecdotally the Java projects were the most well run and unexciting.
The PHP/Laravel and JavaScript projects by contrast were on almost unreasonably tight deadlines, somewhat chaotic (the PHP ones anyways) and high stress.
also honestly sometimes even if the profile doesn't explicitly say 100% remote, it can be if they want you bad enough. i got an exemption in my current place that's technically "hybrid only" ... wishing you best of luck.
Watit and pick the one offering a boring job at something like an insurance company.
And here I thought "crossing" LinkedIn was a new slang.
My perfect boring job was remotely developing a product with solid CI, but otherwise minimal process, which was kinda like a startup.
My most hated job was just like others mentioned - consulting at non-tech company, tons of process, very little done, tons of meetings, hybrid in-person/commute, horrible codebase. It was the most boring time ever because I had to sit countless meetings, gather requirements, fight tons of stakeholders. Whereas with product it was always pretty clear - features were well defined, I could cleanly deliver them in hours or days and just keep ever improving it.
Edit: wonder if you could buy someone's boring business via seller financing.
Brush up on your Java skills, esp. Java EE and Spring Framework. If you know COBOL, doors may open for you.
Delegate your work so you be stress free, plus you move towards growth
> 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.
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.