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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Brunswick 2 Jul 2022 \ on: Most bitcoin jobs are engineering ATM bitcoin
Everyone here thinks the only jobs in tech are engineering and programming.
You need to start thinking about the other major components of a company and find a way to contribute: Operations, Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance, Quality. Startups generally have all these rolled up into one or two founding individuals, and a tech lead company will first hire all tech to support what they believe is the foundation of success. This is woefully shortsighted.
The reality is people need to have their day-to-day tasks limited to what they are best at. This is why you might see a founder hire a CEO so they can focus on tech, it seems backwards, and it may be. In the tech field, I think the Musk model may be the best approach: Be the face of the company, the marketing department, but also make technical architectural decisions and be the final approval for all NPI phase gates and releases. Being a techie in the marketing position allows the company to pivot rapidly to customer needs and ultimately bring the best product to market. Of course the high-level vision needs to be maintained and every bell and whistle can't be included and delay releases.
This brings me around to you. There are plenty of opportunities to support the techie-marketing founders. Sales, biz-dev, marketing support, ad-copy, documentation, requirement documentation, test plans, project management, release testing, CI tools, developer support, quality control, ticket/issue triage, customer support. The list is endless and you don't really need to know anything about crypto for these jobs other than that you want to learn.
Yes, I'd agree with most of this. Problem is my background is in music which doesn't help much in experience in most companies.
I think an entry position in customer support might be a good start, but not sure if you can really work yourself up the chain.
Having some coding skills should open up more opportunities (if you're good at it)
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Being a coder doesen't necessarily mean an ability to work up a chain either. Usually in small companies, there isn't much of a chain to be worked. Small companies aren't immune to politics and backbiting. Someone with a music background would be familiar with self-presentation, with responding to people's needs. Getting a gig at a bar is not much different than proposing your product to a company or coordinating integration of your technology into another company's products. It's all people skills. Coders generally don't have those.
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