No Rust, I’ve been looking and would be excited to do some rust professionally.

I have seen a few GoLang jobs, they have mainly been Devops tooling/platform support roles and a 30% paycut, I could be interested for the right company. Devops often comes with the unadvertised salary reduction, on call duties. Not against on call but every time the deal has been worse than not being on call.

Kotlin I’d be interested in, seen a few odd jobs but closer to 35% pay cut. I thought they would be more Kotlin usage than there currently is.

Modern Java I could be interested in with the caveat no Spring boot. I haven’t really seen this, and the Java roles seem to be the lower end of the market outside of specialised roles in banks which isn’t an atmosphere I’d like to work in due to how hard it is to get things done and being a people management game. That’s my current life, multi billion dollar city org where easy things become hard things for no obvious reason.

Scala, I would enjoy but it doesn’t exist. It’s only listed on roles next to Python and Spark as bait. It was reasonably popular here in 2014 being the largest tech meetup held at Atlassian. The people I know writing Scala are now doing it remotely. There is a crm who use it in Melbourne I’m actually following up, then there’s Rupert Murdoch owned orgs REA, Foxtel, etc i’d rather not work for and didn’t get a good impression when I have spoke to.

Haskell I would love but would say I’m beginner.

My specialties are cloud, micro services, devops, devops without Python except for small scripts and definitely no Ansible. I don’t mind devops, I’ve been setting Kafka clusters and writing Kafka apps up for the past few years but all the devops roles I see use ansible and it’s a pore choice in my opinion and from the programming side Spring have their own Kafka library which is a no go for my sanity. Spark / data engineering stuff I’ve just landed in, I get by but not an interest of mine especially as most of it I think has the if all you have is an hammer everything looks like a nail.

My ideal job would be working for a product company, on a product that has value you can invest yourself in and perform many roles. I miss working in a good product company with a valuable service. As long as I’m not writing NodeJs / massive amount of Python I wouldn’t be to fussed.

I did a couple of years at Atlassian, for a period that was really enjoyable until change of manager’s and direction etc.

I might have to refresh my leet code and give Canva a shot although that looks like a 40% paycut as most of the startups here do trading on name.

Salary right now seems a big factor for me, I’m on just under $200k AUD inc super, I’d move no questions asked for 10-15% in that range but 30-40% I have to have job satisfaction to move. I’m well aware my salary is way in to the upper end for AU although some will be on more. At the same time the paycut seems significant. Not complaining, I won’t go without food either way but it’s the predicament I am in. First world problems.

In the next 12 months I’ve been lucky enough to get in to a position to semi retire and then do 3-6 month contracts to tie me by and look at a career outside software.