newone2three

Disagree. Not every startup has to be a massive success, not every founder needs to be a billionaire, and not everyone has to work like Elon Musk - you’re probably not sending rockets to Mars.

OP might be very happy with a company with no employees that makes 200k a year.

To the OP: save up for 6 months of working on your own thing, OR, launch loads of little experiment MVPs that don’t need lots of work to get _something_ out quickly.

I think (I _think_) maybe because they’re machines designed to kill people.

Just a guess.

I probably wasn’t clear. I’m putting developers and ops people all in the same “skilled computer people” pot. And I think so would Musk and Ellison.

You’re misunderstanding me slightly. I’d put systems administrators in the same category as developers, and I think so would Elon Musk and Larry Ellison.

But if someone’s entire job is “capacity planning”, they’re getting fired.

I think we agree. I’m not saying these things don’t need to be done. I’m saying that “ capacity planning” shouldn’t be someone’s entire job.

> software getting deployed, infrastructures getting the timely upgrades..

I think most people would put these in the same category as developers.

> capacity planning, monitoring and alerting, honing their troubleshooting skills

This is veering into made-up-job world. These people are getting fired. All these tasks can be done by developers.

Why?

I do the same thing, but through agencies, so the roles tend to be larger companies and rates more like 500-600.

Where do you look for open roles directly? I haven’t managed to figure this out.

Get a new job. You can get a contract job paying £500 a day quite easily in the UK. Do a 6 month contract, save up some runway, work on your own thing for a while, doing whatever interests you. Repeat.