Ask HN: How to find a useful dev job?

[UgR32zKhQTZFKPW]

I am a go developer that got laid off recently. Most of the offers I see are from crypto startups that I find useless. I am looking for a remote go position and I want to contribute to something useful.

I worked for one of these useless company in the past and it makes me feel terrible at the end of the day. Now that I have a bit of money saved up, I don't really mind to get payed less.

[BWStearns]

I just went through this and I tried applying to all the open roles I could find that fit but what actually worked was taking the opposite approach.

Find companies you think are doing something useful and reach out on LinkedIn directly to relevant team leads with a quick intro to you and why you are interested/potentially useful for them. Even if they don't have headcount they might know another team that could use you or a role that isn't advertised yet etc. Obviously be respectful and don't spam but I think most people aren't offended by doing this.

[dansult]

Sometimes work is just work. This is just my take but I work mostly for the money and that money lets me do things I love. I find most of my software development joy outside of work. I don't let my job define me or my happiness. Otherwise, if that's not helpful advice, I'd try things like the jobs board on here, or other startup-y board because you'll have more impact at those and might find an interesting problem space.

[giantg2]

Depends on what you see as useful.

I feel like most of the dev (and other) jobs out there are just similar variations on how to extract value from someone. Maybe you write the code for Amazon's website - so what? So people can spend money on stuff they don't really need?

The point is, nobody here can tell you where to find a 'useful' job, or even what that might be to you.

[jessehorne]

I'm sorry you're going through this. I am in the same boat. I made a post that might (maybeee?) be relevant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38637006

[yogini]

https://peerlist.io/jobs?skills=GoLang

Here are some good Golang developer jobs you might find useful.

[mortylen]

Try looking for positions as a developer in industry or look around for companies that have contracts for industry. Such as power plants, heating plants, any other manufacturing plants... I wish you good luck.

[gtirloni]

Search for "awesome $blah companies GitHub". There are many such lists you can use to filter the companies you want to apply to.