Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
You might as well have asked who among us won the lottery.<p>I&#x27;ve been struggling with this for years now; after 4 boring jobs I finally gave up even the expectation that what I&#x27;ll be asked to do will be even remotely interesting (or socially useful). The chance of landing an interesting job is absolutely minuscule - the market rewards whatever it rewards at the moment, and that&#x27;s where jobs flock. These days, one of the bigger thing the market rewards is writing a web-based CRUD that&#x27;s 99% chrome, 1% of actual functionality. Extra points if you can get some user data to sell to adtech industry.<p>(My own criteria for &quot;interesting&quot; these days are a bit different. I&#x27;m not looking for &quot;interesting technical problems&quot;, as in advanced CS stuff, but &quot;interesting outcomes&quot; - pushing the humanity forward, or alleviating a social problem for some group of people. I find it hard to even <i>find</i> companies that apparently work on something like that, and even then it seems they have to do <i>lots</i> of boring work as well.)<p>--<p>EDIT: Then again there&#x27;s this topic that has been casting shadow on my happiness for a long time, that I finally seem to be able to define. Maybe our civilization has finally crushed my soul, and I noticed it just now. But it feels to me that the revealed goal of our market-driven world is to <i>abstract everything away with money</i>. The end-game is that as an individual, your responsibility in the society is to pick a skill - <i>whatever skill</i> - that makes you money, and then to use money to solve everything else with your life. It doesn&#x27;t matter what you do, there is only one meaningful meta-skill - making money fall out of the system, into your bank account.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just realizing something obvious that parents should have taught me when I was a kid. I don&#x27;t know. Maybe it was wrong of me to seek meaning in the things one does? Maybe that approach is no longer supported by our civilization?