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I’m in it for the money. After 20 some years in tech, I think I’ve got 4 years left in me of dealing with the pedantry required when working for someone else, particularly a corporation. Call it compartmentalization, apathy, professionalism, whatever, I don’t evaluate my 9-5 based on my happiness.
The job itself is not too bad. I've become inured to crappy work over the years. What kills me is the relentless manner in which work attempts to make inroads into my personal time. I hate late-night meetings, especially those that start beyond 11 pm. I hate the fact that most of my co-workers are online and working well past bedtime, and on most weekends. I hate that most think nothing of installing the office messe…
Eh, not really, but it’s unlikely I could find a job where I would be. It really was a mistake to become a professional programmer.
This past summer they brought in some "Agile" consultants which ramped up the process and micromanagement to 10.
So far we've tried to bring on two people these past 3 months, both quitting 2 months after joining.
I've tried to be candid with my boss, but things don't seem to changing so on to [perceived] greener pastures (it's also a 40% pay bump but money was not why I started looking).
My feeling about work changes every few years. I started out as a developer. I learned how to build web stuff, I built massive global systems, I designed and built a successful product, then I got bored. I then became a team lead, then led multiple teams, then defining company wide engineering processes, then I got bored. I then became a product manager. I grew a product to success, moved into growth marketing, and t…
It doesn’t help that I am perverse enough to always strive for the most senior position I can get in, when I change a company, which always turns out to be incredibly difficult and a destroyer of self confidence.
I am currently at a FAANG at a senior level and I am not kidding when I say I do not know what the hell I am doing, technically speaking. I try to counter balance this by working like a dog, but it is not sustainable. I spent a lot of time thinking about this and I think people talk about impostor syndrome but I am just a true impostor. Compared to some of my peers I am better at sweet talking and so I end up getting opportunities I am not qualified for (“tricking” management is somewhat a very easy game for me), and then suffer.
I need some sort of catalyst in my life to change all this. I rationally know this is destroying me, but my brain just keeps telling me: “stop complaining you fool, you are incredibly privileged and lucky and are making the money of your life, people would kill to be in your shoes. Just work harder and shut up before you are truly caught in your incompetence and the well dries up”.
I’m thinking 2022 might be a good time to talk to a therapist, things have been getting consistently worse yoy as I grew more senior professionally.
No, I'll be putting in my notice for a new job tomorrow after closing on a house today. This past summer they brought in some "Agile" consultants which ramped up the process and micromanagement to 10. So far we've tried to bring on two people these past 3 months, both quitting 2 months after joining. I've tried to be candid with my boss, but things don't seem to changing so on to [perceived] greener pastures (it's al…
I don't mind if a job is a grind, but if you are actively unhappy, without something specific like that to look forward to, it is time to be seeking out change in your work. Either by talking to your leaders about fixing your current job, or finding a new one.