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Just apply to a big company. Any big company should do, but to be on the safe side, apply to an IT job where the employer is not a "tech company."

Government and university jobs are boring too!



Can confirm. I started working in IT for the university in town and it's boring (in a good way)


Seconded on gov.

I work for an R&D company associated with DoE. I don't work more than 40 hours a week and occasionally as few as 20 hours a week. Every now and then I get an itch to apply to a startup and then I remember those 80-hour weeks I used to work at startups.

I think startups are just bad value proposition for most employees. You might work similar hours in IB, but at least you get comped in cash...


> apply to an IT job where the employer is not a "tech company."

Seriously. Yes. This.

Being an IT guy for Med/Auto/Pharma/Law/etc, I wasn't fodder for management. Even in more techy industries (GeoThermal, web retailer) everyone was nice to the IT guy.




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