Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall 5 by lknfrnpt | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I'm close to hitting a decade of full time experience. In that time, I have always worked in back end engineering roles requiring oncall duties. I've recently identified a few things that are my key stressors at work, and the key contributors to my burn out. The top of that list is the existence of oncall duties, and the need to be ready to respond for a week at a time. Even with a quiet oncall, I still plan my personal life around being oncall. Same goes for planning any tie off. I've reached a point where I don't need or want to self sacrifice (e.g,. for total comp, or prestige, or whatever); instead, I'm trying to tweak my path forward for the next decade or so of work. I'm not ruling out a change of disciplines, for instance mobile or frontend development. That said, I have a strong set of skills and deep experience from the last decade. So I'm wo...