[papito]

Most of your job will involve taking user data, validating it, putting it into some database, then retrieving and serving it, probably as JSON.

You may edit an HTML template here and there.

Maybe even some configuration work for CI/CD.

Rinse, repeat, with whatever new language/framework is hot right now.

Basically, you will be solving the same set of problems on every job, but in more convoluted and unnecessary ways, because the guy who worked at Google says that's how they do it over at the FAANG.

[Saint_Genet]

The kind of post you write when you think the web is the world.

[papito]

I was being half-sarcastic. But, if you take most jobs out there, and you reduce them to the barebones of what it is you do every day, like really distill it - it's that.

[acomar]

I've never in my life worked on a professional project I could describe this way. this might be the most common path but it's far from the only one.

[exdsq]

This is true for some jobs, but not for 'specialised' roles like game dev, systems dev, robotics, etc. There is an escape!

[papito]

If you have passion for that kind of stuff and that is your "thing", yes, of course. But most of the time, we just got rent to pay and there is not enough room for experiments with your life and career. Experiment in college, kids, while you can make mistakes - including sexy mistakes.

[exdsq]

Really? I assumed if you are on HN you probably enjoy tech enough that it's not just to pay rent. Maybe I misunderstood your comment.

[pjerem]

There are a lot of people on HN that are just stuck in this industry because it pays correctly but are doing things that are far from what they expected when they started. Please don't exclude them for no reason.

[exdsq]

That's fair. I just didn't like the negative-sounding comment that it will always end up with CRUD-for-rent. If people enjoy business line apps thats awesome, it can be fun, but there are alternative roles out there too.

[pjerem]

To be fair, even if it’s off topic, finding a job in this industry is stupidly easy. Finding a job that is fulfilling, well paid, and in a great company is difficult.

And I don’t even mean it’s a tragedy : I largely prefer doing CRUD-for-rent in a great company than technically fulfilling job under asshole management in some unstable startup.

[papito]

No. I am on HN to get downvotes when I point out that Peter Thiel is a douchebag.

[acomar]

whomst among us doesn't love a vampire that mainlines the blood of teenagers?