Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe

“Chill” and “grow“ don’t often go together. You get complacent and fall into routine. You grow when you’re pushed and do uncomfortable things.

If you want to be stay chill with your work then you have to firstly do hardworking this gives real chill with things that will happen in the future.

Government, maybe also try a union hospital job in IT. They'll pay less but you'll get pension. My friend is a systems architect for Redcap which is a research database software for a large hospital system and he basically teaches doctors how to set up their studies in the database, he has a chill schedule and is always asking me if I want to meet him for hikes or happy hours at 2 or 3pm!

Why would someone pay you “to chill”? Do you have any special skills that would make you highly valued to a company and you would be a prime catch?

Be willing to accept less pay. Work in the public sector. Government and education jobs tend to be less demanding and pay commensurately.

As mentioned by others, nobody gets paid to “chill”, but with fewer responsibilities there can be more opportunities to take initiative and grow in a direction that interests you. Once you clear out your backlog if things are slow you can start looking for ways you can improve the system while sharpening your skills on your own terms.

Learn to solve problems on the job and churn out solutions quickly, and then use that remaining time to "chill". That's how I have a decently paid job while occupying every other bit of time to university study.

In current market I would really not filter remote only.

Get a job first. Even if not remote.

Then you keep applying for remote jobs.

Probably won't find it remote. I would say gov contractors / gov jobs could be chill.. not sure how visa would interact with that process, sorry.

I have four years of experience and have been looking for a job for over a year. It’s been difficult to find a role, even while being open to relocation.

Almost out of money.

As a wise man once said: I'm cooked

Referrals from people who youve worked with. Best way to know what its like to work somewhere is someone currently working there

Work for big companies that offer SWE positions they don‘t really need but won‘t downsize due to lack of accountability.

Never join small, privately owned (or even worse, privately controlled!) companies with extreme accountability and ownership. No startups. Run if they mention they are a company that is performance driven or a place where you can make an impact.

You want to be one of many random swe who can hide among his peers and you want to be able to make tons of meetings and red tape responsible for your slow progress.

Government, insurances, banks, big-corpo-bodyleasing consulting (like accenture, NOT „high pressure boutique consulting“). Body lease consulting is ideal, you can regularly leave behind the mess you caused and move on.

Mutually incompatible. A chill job won't teach you new things, since chill implies unchallenging. Most interesting learnings will happen when you cross the point of no return, where you feel really challenged or even overburdened at times.

You would do good to consider what "chill" means to you. Not a lot of work? Work that is easy? Relaxed environment with cool collegues that don't have sticks up their asses? Once you found that phrase it more precisely, since chill mainly imples you want to not work but get money for it.

Sounds like you had a sweet gig for awhile. Quickest way at this point is probably to build a time machine. Sorry :/

start your own company

What does "chill" even mean? If I saw that on an application... delete.

Start by learning to sell yourself effectively.

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