there's no light at the end of the tunnel...

[rone]

... but i hear the train coming anyway.

My career is stuck in a bad spot, where i can't afford to work for a place whose output isn't objectionable (like a university or a non-profit organization), so i have to take a job with companies that produce abhorrent things, like social networks or online ad frameworks, and are either megacorporations ridden with politics and bureaucracy, or are minuscule startups run by delusional megalomaniacs who overwork everyone, or they're midsized companies run by decent, smart people and therefore are a target ripe for acquisition and reëducation.  And i'm still too far off my winemaking certificate to seriously enact a career change (and we're back to the "can't afford" part, anyway).  The small business is already a vanishing thing, but it's practically mythic in this industry.  I wonder whether there's anything that can be done about it.

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[ltempt.livejournal.com]

Not quite remembering exactly what your niche is, but thinking it was a general Solaris bofh, you have considered working for a telco?

Okay, finish the shuddering, but if you consider things in terms of end product being interesting comms services rather than bloodsucking death, they typically have massives budgets, all the good toys, reasonable job security and don't mind paying people properly. The politics etc exist, but I got three good years out of a telco before I got particularly annoyed.

I found my career niche working for a Sun reseller handling deployments, design and general 'doing things' type work. Minimal politics, maximal variety of workload and the pay isn't too shabby.