| What do you consider interesting? Do you want to be 'superman' and constantly be the hero rescuing the company/customers? Do you want to make a difference with your efforts? Or do you mean interesting to others and you want people to perk up when you tell them what you do? ERP/PLM for aerospace manufacturers can be interesting if you like jets/space. It has the added benefit of filling that 'superman' role thing if you need to be needed. To do it right you basically have to learn every roll at the company. Medical software can feel meaningful if you don't pick something lame like Epic. Can be cool knowing you improved tens of thousands of lives at a location when you go to a city that has your software/product. If you want to be the next cool kid at parties like the FAANG people used to be I don't think there is a new one yet. AI already has so much blow back it's definitely not it. If you make useful music software you can sometimes get to know famous musicians if that interests you. Some people have started doing some average person empowering AI stuff. A chat bot for me that navigates waiting on hold (because every company is continuously experiencing higher than average volume) or talking to XYZs chat bot until I get to a person would be great. They are going to force me to deal with a bot, I should be able to have my own bot deal with theirs the let me know once it's gotten through their dark pattern firewall. There was someone on Reddit cataloging company job listings to determine if they are actually real listings that get filled or not. There could be some interesting stuff in that space to push back on the dystopian nightmare that modern hiring has turned into. I feel like that would fill the malicious streak if you have one. I hear it's fun and a warm community to do Rust dev work on the Linux kernel right now :) |