Jess Lee

Posted on Mar 5, 2018

What's your dream job?

#discuss

Top comments (73)

lynn • Mar 5 '18

Housewife.

I love cooking and I always feel very accomplished after cleaning. I would love to create a beautiful and supportive household for my family so my children and husband can succeed in whatever they want to do.

In my free time I'd read, write music, and even code!

cholderby • May 8 '18

BTDT and - much to my shock - HATED it.

With all the current talk about increasing gender diversity in tech, I still haven't heard much talk about how incredibly hard is to jump in and out of software development. I took 8 years off. I did lots of freelance and pro bono coding during that time and it was still a very hard hill to climb to come back.

On a totally unrelated subject, I have seen GG Allin in concert, though sadly not the time he famously pooped on stage. Punk legend.

lynn • May 8 '18

Makes total sense. This was more of a "in a perfect world" scenario. Hopefully, in the future, I can manage to find a balance between software development and raising children.

And high five to a fellow gg allin fan! Too bad no poop was thrown, but that's awesome you got to see him in concert. Hope he still put on a memorable show!

Yechiel Kalmenson • Mar 5 '18

A job at a company with a strong remote-first philosophy that recognizes:

That well-rounded developers > 10x ninja developers.

That having a life outside of work makes for more productive workers.

That having a diverse team from a variety of backgrounds and dispositions > having "cultural fit".

Gunnar Gissel • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

That sounds like a mighty nice place to work. I'm ready to sign up!

Also, on the 10x devs: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never...

Yechiel Kalmenson • Mar 5 '18

Waiting to find it first 😉

Ben Halpern • Mar 6 '18

I was inspired to look up the job description of being a ninja:

The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, assassination and guerrilla warfare.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja

Interestingly, western culture glamorizes the hell out of ninjas but it seems like they had a pretty sleezy rep at the time:

Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed dishonorable and beneath the samurai, who observed strict rules about honor and combat.[

Fyodor • Mar 6 '18

This dev ninja culture had started from php as far as I remember. Such methods and reputation are quite normal for php 😂

Yechiel Kalmenson • Mar 6 '18

Yup, sounds just like the type of toxic work culture I'd like to avoid... 😉

Ben Halpern • Mar 6 '18

The elephant's always had a pretty suspicious look if you ask me.

Patrick O'Dacre • Apr 12 '18

I don't think I would ever apply to a company looking for ninjas, gurus or "brilliant" devs. I can't imagine working with people that really thought that about themselves.

Rina • Mar 6 '18

😍

Ryan Palo • Mar 5 '18

I want to teach! Something in the neighborhood of calculus, physics, mechanics, Computer-Aided Design, mechanical design, or -- last but not least -- programming. :)

Right now I'm just working a few odd tutoring jobs here or there, but I'm keeping an eye out for an opportunity to teach in a more classroomy setting, either high-school or college.

Stefan Dorresteijn • Mar 5 '18

Fiction author. It's completely different from being a CTO but I've got dreams of sitting by a lake in Italy with a herd of dogs and a typewriter.

Moe • Mar 5 '18

YES

Lara • Mar 5 '18

developing software for the anime industry.

Rishabh Gupta • Dec 15 '18

I'm totally on-board

Chrissy Wainwright • Mar 5 '18

I would love to be a photographer that is sent around to world to photograph animals.

But fortunately I love my job as a web developer, which I get to do from home

Moe • Mar 5 '18

Being in a position where I can move to a French-speaking and immerse myself in the language. I don't know what french country yet maybe French Guiana, France, Togo, or Belgium.

Jen Chan • Mar 16 '18 • Edited

I think dream job (a position i'd enjoy doing all day, everyday forever) is different from an idealized position (being this super meaningful impactful person who solved a big social problem with their talents... )
For the former definition wine sommelier or scent chemist might be super interesting. Maybe writing childrens books about really heavy topics to help people understand them? I'm already an artist and have been for 8 years and that is a longterm commitment.

For the latter, I'd love to be one of the people who wrote the ACLU live recording app for recording state misconduct aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-refor...

But actually, I'm working really happily from home at a civic tech company right now, and learning tons.

Ben Halpern • Mar 5 '18

I think I'm doing it. I'm making a thing I care about. That's always been a big part of my life. I'm having an impact in things I care about, but not pretending to "make the world a better place" in a platitude sense.

And I'm learning all the time.

In my ideal world I have fewer nagging tasks that pull me away from the thing I really want to do at the moment, but I feel free to strive for that situation. I don't think I'd want the version of my life where I automatically get everything I want.

Ali Spittel • Mar 5 '18

I really love the intersection of code, art, and social justice. If I could do teaching in the future that joins those things well I would be in heaven.

More realistically, I would love to do developer advocacy/evangelism. I really like doing speaking and blogging. I also love building small projects that show a tool off!