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For me the recruiter went on holiday and by the time they came back I had a new job lol

I wouldn't mind but I have no background in it at all

It's a bit hard to find something. Usually, people who contribute do so because they're users of a project and want to fix bugs or add features, so that's one way.

Other than that, most of my open source work was just created by myself. If there's something you think could be useful or interesting, just make it and open source it.

Yep, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Definitely going to look at this board, thanks :D

Not really, I've been thinking that for years, it's just been hitting me more recently.

But it seems unlikely for me that anyone in general tech would know much about the science industry or positions of "research engineer" without having prior exposure to that industry somehow.

Like, I could spend 2 more decades doing full stack dev, it would change nothing to the kind of jobs available to me. I'm already as high as I can go in this area without going into management (which I have no interest in)

yeah I have absolutely no idea. When I look on linkedin, google, typical job boards and others, I mostly find startups.

I don't know why you keep being so aggressive but you don't know me or anything about me and you're making weird wide ranging judgements just based on the fact that I'm asking for advice on how to find more interesting jobs.

Not everyone has to be an "entrepreneur". I like making things, not running companies and managing people/talking to investors and all the other things that come with trying to create a startup.

And yes, sorry but if you're not aware, some people have life situations that don't allow them to simply quit their job and start a company without a safety net. There's a reason the vast majority of "entrepreneurs" are of a very specific demographic

Yeah my last few job searches went a bit like that too. Sending CVs to try interesting new things gets not replies, meanwhile I get dozens of recruiters offering me well paid jobs as long as I stay in the same general areas.

It's really hard getting out of the boxes we're typecast in.

I still like programming a lot when I do it on interesting things (which are side projects really), but I haven't had interesting programming at my job in years.

Yeah, seriously I'd put a big warning on that one. I've been burned many times (and know many people who have) being the nice one who does the hard boring work that no one wants to deal with, only for the company to then make you do more and more of it.

It's a good way to make yourself hard to replace, but they're probably gonna want you to keep doing the thing you're hard to replace at.

I've been thinking I should get into consulting for a long time, as I tend to like fixing higher level problems when I arrive at a company. But that seems impossible to break into without already having a network to draw from.

That's probably true. The work I always love the most is building tools to help other people at work...

On the other hand I've found those companies hard to break into because they often expect you to have specific expertise in things like "very high scale applications" or specific low-level things.

I only tried Gitlab I think, and never really heard back.

Honestly, Facebook has tried to hire me like 3 times now and every time I got a completed offer at a different job by the time they finished organising their 8-step interview process so I never finished it.

FAANG might be interesting but their interview processes kill it for me. I have no idea how people find the time to do homework for it + are willing to spend months in this lengthy interview pipeline.

(Also there are problems with FAANG type companies being generally kind of evil these days, of course)

yeah, I'm thinking of enabling it, but what I'm making is a game engine that only has a few users for now and it would be a very very long way to being able to make a living income from game developers sponsoring it.

Maybe eventually it could get to the point where I could do part time freelancing supplemented with github sponsor income, but even that would take a long time.

I suspect outside of a few super-popular repo managers, github sponsorship doesn't bring much income (don't know if there's any public data on that)

It does seem interesting, I've wanted to get more into electronics since I played with HDL when following the nand 2 tetris book. Though I'm not super experienced in low level or Rust yet (which is why I want to get into it) and I'm in the UK, not US