Worth doing as in, I can look back 10 years later and be proud of what I did. That the work had meaning beyound getting a paycheck.
> And if you mean it in terms of social good, maybe if you have very unusual values?
"Social Good". I don't like terms like this. In the west this term is often conflated with leftist values. I'm mostly concerned with technical excellence and making products that provide some value to end users.
These two criteria alone exclude that vast majority of tech jobs.
Most software products suck, both on the technical front, and the user experience front.
> It can't be a matter of technical challenge; there are plenty of hard jobs out there.
Right, but they are challenging because you have to work with terrible tech. This is not an interesting kind of challenge. It's the annoying kind of challenge.
Think of it this way: building a website using only Notepad (the default text editor in Windows XP) is probably challenging, but is it interesting? No.
> Most software products suck, both on the technical front, and the user experience front.
Since you also hate being an employee, this could be your chance to venture on your own and make awesome technical products with great user experience, given that you posit most software suck.
> And if you mean it in terms of social good, maybe if you have very unusual values?
"Social Good". I don't like terms like this. In the west this term is often conflated with leftist values. I'm mostly concerned with technical excellence and making products that provide some value to end users.
These two criteria alone exclude that vast majority of tech jobs.
Most software products suck, both on the technical front, and the user experience front.
> It can't be a matter of technical challenge; there are plenty of hard jobs out there.
Right, but they are challenging because you have to work with terrible tech. This is not an interesting kind of challenge. It's the annoying kind of challenge.
Think of it this way: building a website using only Notepad (the default text editor in Windows XP) is probably challenging, but is it interesting? No.