Good Jobs #97: Apple of my eye

Remote and Boise-area tech jobs at Curious Media, Harvest, Loom, Tango, Gong, City of Boise, and more

Oct 27, 2023

If you’ve ever worked in software you’ve probably heard the term low-hanging fruit. It’s the work out there that is quick and ready to go. You and your team can knock out a bunch of low-hanging fruit work in a day or two. While easy, it’s often not very fruitful in helping reach the goals the team is working toward, especially if that’s all you ever do.

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My wife and I spent a few hours in upstate New York picking apples.

We drove to a quiet town and took a quiet backroad to a very busy apple orchard on the side of a hill. There were lines of bushy apple trees as far as the eye could see.

(Also, it was also like 95 degrees which completely ruined the fall vibes.)

This one apple tree was surrounded by fallen mushy apples, which were really satisfying to step on, but totally ruined my shoes. (Yes, I am a child.) Anyway, the lower part of the tree had a couple of apples, but most of them had either fallen or been picked. The top of the tree was filled with bunches of beautiful pink and red apples.

As someone who has grown tired of the digital low-hanging fruit diet, I decided to go for the real high-hanging stuff. I climbed, stretched, and jumped to get a few of those precious apples.

I imagined ~~them~~ these apples would be the best I’ve ever had—juicy, sweet, and maybe even »life changing«.

I started to empathize with Adam and Eve… an apple could really be that good?!

I took a bite of one of those high-hanging fruits.

It tasted like nothing. Wet, waxy, herbaceous nothing.

I reached over and grabbed a low-hanging apple off the same tree, took a bite, and it also tasted like nothing.

Sometimes all of the fruit on the tree is bad.

Onward,

Loren

P.S. - Have a spooky Halloween 👻

ENGINEERING

Software Engineering Manager at Blue Cross of Idaho

Meridian | Full time

Software Engineer at Highwire

Boise | Full time

HTML5 Developer at Curious Media

Nampa | Full time

Full Stack Engineer at Tango

Remote | Full time | Salary: $123–154K

Senior Web Developer at Gong

Remote | Full time

Software Engineer at Loom

Remote | Full time

Security Engineer at Harvest

Remote | Full time

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