Not true for every team. As in Microsoft. As in Apple. As in Google. Amazon has great teams and supersmart people. If you're unlucky you end up in a crappy team. Since there are lots and lots, it's a luck-driven process.
Italian here. In Naples we've been having those 'smart people who steal electricity and rig water meters' for a looooooooong time. You might want to find your exceptional talents here.
How is this exactly going to be different from the thousand of other competitors that are now complete garbage marketplaces by the millions of indians and mediocre programmers pouring low-cost offers into it?
I understand this might seem like a stupid complaint.. but one can't train forever. He needs a goal. I want to do something useful for the society or at least make some extra money for my family. I'm not a dog who can be left hours and hours doing nothing and staring at a white wall: I experience and suffer from boredom as you all.
That is correct, I don't feel like violating any law although making software for other people (since I just have to be 'ready for those small problems') might involve legal issues that I'll research more in depth.
By the way making software is what I should be doing as a job, I might be interested in other ways of getting a revenue that might just need a working brain and a lot of spare time.
I have known a few people over the years in a similar situation - the most notable was one guy who ran a cleaning business, he slept most of the day at work, and worked cleaning at night. If anything came up he was woken :-)
Hey SQL thanks for that link, I'll take a good look at it and perhaps be in contact if I think I could do a good job at it.
You're right that it's a great opportunity but people need goals in their life.. this job feels like constant training for no purpose at all. I can research or study something, but I'll never build anything with it and that saddens me.
