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This sounds like a dream job.

Why not advertise the puzzle too? Isn't the point to get it solved?

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Point is likely to solve it first, and get the treasure before other people.

And hope Nat Friedman doesn't betray you after your services...are no longer required.

As a former archaeologist, a surprisingly large portion of my job was telling people that puzzles leading to treasure hoards aren't really a thing, so they should stop looting their local heritage sites.

A dream job? In the US, an entry level return offer for an intern is at least $160K at most major tech companies. Your average enterprise CRUD developer can get $120K after 3 years and one job hop (no insult that’s what I spent most of my career doing).

If I have the technical skills to solve the types of problems that he wants solved, he needs to offer a lot more money and stability than 6 months.

I mean to me part of the dream job aspect would be doing a archeological puzzle, which sounds way less boring than programming CRUD apps day to day. And the remuneration seems fair to me.

It's not the best paying job, but I would take this in a millisecond if I was qualified.

US tech people are so spoiled.

Really bright people rarely value this kind of “stability”. Their inboxes are always full of offers. That’s their stability.

I bet they value stability now…

I valued stability a lot in 2000, 2008, 2020 and now.

I don’t know… I quit a well paying freelance gig in 2008 and started a startup.

You apparently don't understand that jobs that are actually desirable come at a huge wage discount. Sure, if you want to use your ML skills to push self-destructive ads or play in the stock market, you get a lot more money. But if you use the skills to do something fun/respectable, you get less.

I would find the infrastructure work and scaling of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and AWS (I currently work at AWS on the consulting side) to be very interesting. Working at scale is very interesting to me.

So you're an part of making sure monopoly power is consolidated into the hands of an elite few? Cool. That's right up there with saving the climate, facilitating world peace, et cetera. I couldn't ever think of why chasing mythical treasure would be as fun an stuffing Bezos's mouth with a few more billions.

Yes and I’m sure you value your work at startups where the founders and VCs are putting themselves in a position to sell out to the monopolies? Where pray tell is AWS a “monopoly” where there are two major competitors and the CEO himself said that only 5% of IT spend is on any cloud provider?

Are you feeding starving children in Africa at a non profit? Do you not exchange labor for money? Have you somehow overcome your addiction to food and shelter?

Lol. If you think I think I do good things for a living, you need to tweak your algorithm. I'm just telling you the economics of it.

The more interesting work in the world is often the least paid and most volatile. The hard part of CRUD work is the mental infrastructure you have to develop to accept how uninteresting it is.

People don't become paramedics or archaeologists for the paycheque, because often there's not that much monetary outcome from doing the work.

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