Title: I&#x27;m technically a new grad, I finished my CS BSc in 2020 but didn&#x27;t start working then, and instead started another BSc. This year I was close to starting my masters and go into academia but likely won&#x27;t because I just don&#x27;t have the energy for it after going through a big breakup and a sort of &quot;identity crisis&quot;. Currently I live in a big European capital (with a lot of tech jobs) that I love from the bottom of my heart, and I would like to stay here. But all the computer science jobs just seem so dull and pointless. It seems like you either work for a startup that will eventually be bought by a competitor and all the work that went into it is moot, for a big bank or corporate, or some small company building CRUD apps for other faceless corporations.<p>What am I missing? I get work is first and foremost an exchange of labour for money, and not supposed to be fun. But aren&#x27;t there more options I missed so far? I enjoy web scraping a lot and have used it to solve a bunch of real world problems my (ex) girlfriend or I had. I could conceivably work as a freelancer and have done so in the past as a psychology student but I really want to work on something as part of a team. I recently came across the &quot;developer relations&quot; role, i.e. representing the company at conferences and online, recording demos, writing technical blog posts etc.. it seems perfect for me (I prefer working with people), but I would assume they are looking for people who have a few years of experience already so they know what they&#x27;re talking about?<p>EDIT: plus some of the most insufferable people I&#x27;ve met in my life were in undergrad CS classes or colleagues in SWE gigs
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