Posting this on a lark. I don't know if I want to be hired. — hiring

Posting this on a lark. I don't know if I want to be hired.·Hacker News
Posted Jul 2, 2026
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Posting this on a lark. I don't know if I want to be hired.

I've run my own business for 20 years. I've had employees and contractors. Dog fooded my own software. Failed at many things. I was an IT manager for a few years. And I've worked a few days a small dairy farm helping dehorn calfs and milk some cows. For a year and half I've worked at a group home working with teen boys that have a rough start in life. And I started doing this because my tech experience had gotten unpleasant. But, bad supervisors are bad supervisors.

So, are there really any decent people to work for? I've gained an unusual set of leadership skills this past year in an unexpected way, and I've been a coder for a long enough time to look up to the gray beards for wisdom, but I feel I was better at concepts and system design than coding. I made a mobile game or two this past year, just because I needed to keep my head in the tech world. What does any of this qualify someone for these days? Cheers!

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