Nov 13, 2025 
16 mins to read Hey, Anxiety and Opportunity at 3 AM
To be honest, I'm sitting in a 24-hour café right now—the kind with warm yellow lights and folk music in the background you can't understand. I've already drunk the third ice Americano, and suddenly I remembered those data points I saw in the MyJob.one backend last week... sigh, those candidates who were still browsing job listings at 2 AM.
Do you know? In the past three months, the search volume for the Partner Operation position has increased by 217%. I stared at the screen for a long time, recalling that last year at this time, everyone was疯狂ly applying for the Product Manager position...
Operations Becomes the New Darling
Actually, last month at the Singapore Web3 Summit, I noticed an interesting phenomenon—during the coffee breaks, the Operations and Maintenance Engineer position recruiters were always surrounded by the most people. It's like... uh... empty seats suddenly appearing on the subway during the morning rush hour?
Later, I learned from an HR Director at a DeFi platform: "Right now, we'd rather hire two fewer developers than find someone who understands cross-cultural communication for the Partner Operation position."
The Content Marketer's Wild Ride
Speaking of which... last week I met a girl who came from traditional media. During her interview for the Content Marketer position, she said something that stuck with me: "Writing in Web3 is like baking a cake on a surfboard—you need to maintain balance while ensuring the cake doesn't burn."
The market is really like this now:
- Need you to analyze ZK-Rollup technology in whitepapers
- Want you to craft memes for DAO communities
- Always ready to host a Twitter Space at 3 AM
To be honest, I've seen many people from traditional 4A agencies feel completely lost in their first month here...
The Data Scientist's Dilemma
It's 4 AM now, and the café barista is starting to clean the espresso machine. This reminds me of the Data Scientist position candidate I interviewed yesterday—he graduated in mathematics from Oxford but was纠结 whether to choose a CeFi exchange or an NFT data analysis platform.
"The former offers a $30,000 higher salary, but the latter gives access to more on-chain native data," he said while constantly rotating his smartwatch on his left wrist. Later I thought, this sweet dilemma is quite common in the Web3 world?
The Undervalued "Night Watchmen"
Oh, and speaking of Operations and Maintenance Engineer position... last week, a cross-chain bridge company's system crashed at 3 AM. Their operations engineer was fixing it on a beach in Bali—this kind of story I could tell for twenty without repetition.
Do you know? The most fascinating thing about these positions is that:
- They're always buried on page 2 of job boards
- Their salary growth consistently ranks in the top five
- Candidates often receive offers calls at midnight
The Renaissance of Secretaries
Speaking of which... (scrolling through phone photos) last month, I met a VC friend in Berlin. His Secretary position requirements shocked me:
- Need to help the boss manage cryptocurrency wallets
- Ability to quickly verify KOLs' on-chain transaction records
- Even need to know how to use Gnosis Safe multi-signature
My first reaction was: This isn't hiring a secretary—it's hiring a CTO! But then I thought... maybe this is just Web3.
The Self-Cultivation of Product Managers
Dawn is breaking, so let's talk about the Product Manager position. Last week, I saw a joke in a Slack group:"Traditional PM: This requirement will be done in the next sprint.Web3 PM: This feature is already deployed on three testnets."
Actually, good Web3 product managers are like unicorns—they need to understand smart contract development processes, be able to analyze on-chain data, and also be able to control DAO community votes...
Once, during an interview, I asked a candidate: 'What do you do if the product you're responsible for gets forked?' He paused for three seconds and said: 'That means we're doing well enough?' Later, this person joined Uniswap.
Words Written in the Morning Light
The café is starting to serve breakfast menus... Suddenly I want to say that, actually, no matter what position you're in, what makes the Web3 world so fascinating isn't this feeling of 'always rebuilding the rules'? Just like that senior who first entered the industry eight years ago said: 'Here, your job description might not be valid three months from now.'
So if you're anxiously browsing these positions on MyJob.one... well, take a deep breath. Do you remember what I said at the beginning? Those who are still looking for opportunities at 2 AM are often the ones who see the dawn first.
