I had job similar to this. I was doing a rights management console for Universal Music to control usage rights on YouTube and Vimeo. My previous two jobs I stayed over 4 years at both. I last 9 months and the CTO yelled at me when I quit.
I did not enjoy the work. I did not feel I was creating anything of use. When friends asked what I did at work I had to say "You know when you try and watch a YouTube video and it's blocked in your country? I do that." It's hard to be proud of that. I found it hard to work when I thought what I was doing was stupid.
The music industry is bizarre. There are so many layers and different people in charge it's impossible to make a descision. Even if they wanted to change with the times I don't think they could.
25% more money and working from home wasn't enough to make me stay.
I understand your feelings. One thing I always want to do in my work is to do something useful. It does not have to be much or useful for many, but it has to be useful.
Regional blocking for videos is almost the very opposite to useful in my view. SO I would not stay long if I ever started working on a such company almost no matter the pay.
Yeah, and this is the one thing I didn't see addressed in the article at all. It doesn't have to be about "interesting problems," it's that your entire business model is based on something that no tech-savvy 20-something wants to support.
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I had job similar to this. I was doing a rights management console for Universal Music to control usage rights on YouTube and Vimeo. My previous two jobs I stayed over 4 years at both. I last 9 months and the CTO yelled at me when I quit.
I did not enjoy the work. I did not feel I was creating anything of use. When friends asked what I did at work I had to say "You know when you try and watch a YouTube video and it's blocked in your country? I do that." It's hard to be proud of that. I found it hard to work when I thought what I was doing was stupid.
The music industry is bizarre. There are so many layers and different people in charge it's impossible to make a descision. Even if they wanted to change with the times I don't think they could.
25% more money and working from home wasn't enough to make me stay.
I understand your feelings. One thing I always want to do in my work is to do something useful. It does not have to be much or useful for many, but it has to be useful.
Regional blocking for videos is almost the very opposite to useful in my view. SO I would not stay long if I ever started working on a such company almost no matter the pay.
Yeah, and this is the one thing I didn't see addressed in the article at all. It doesn't have to be about "interesting problems," it's that your entire business model is based on something that no tech-savvy 20-something wants to support.