How did I get so unhappy working in tech?

And now that it has come full circle—when I'm finally able to find a job at an agency and find myself not only at work but at home. It seems crazy that I don't have to figure out how to fix my broken life. There are so many things I need to learn. When I go to work every day, that's when I remember a lot more about how I came to see TechCrunch the other day (or whatever—depending on the topic). Some of the best people in tech know when to talk to people about their favorite business. I have been lucky (and grateful) to have such incredible people around me. I love every minute one of them has, and love to bring

Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose!

In this case, it doesn't matter whether it's GP-3 or not, it is a no-content blog post of which you can find hundreds of thousands of other examples, none of which have any new information in them. We get it: the way some people have built up tech careers as being something exciting can prove to be very disappointing when you're on your 3rd CRUD page of the day. It's still better than being a soul-less HR monkey or a Jira happy middle manager.

Everything following this line seems to point in the other direction. Just because a smaller percentage of higher-ups received more doesn't mean you / we are not obscenely overpaid, it just means "they" are phenomenally obscenely overpaid and at the top of the exponential scale of "what's wrong with shit these days".

Teachers and nurses, as the pandemic demonstrated, are essential to the daily functioning of society. I couldn't do what they do day-to-day, dealing with the full range of the bell curve - and their children - and their ailments and inability to see / relate to the world. Holy hell.

The annual inspection of the foundations of the ivory tower have been sub-sub-contracted to the lowest bidder, which is a company at the end of a series of shell corporations for whose ownership can only be determined with the cooperation of a string of people that have no legal obligation to cooperate.

How so? Covering expenses ? I.e. Moving on to the next job? It’s not trouble if you don’t need to. Tech pays quite well, especially in terms of ROI of academic expenditures. If you lived / live modestly, you’re better positioned for financial freedom than classic pinnacles of success such as medical school.

I quit, and there’s been zero trouble. Quite the opposite. I’m healthier than ever. I didn’t accumulate tens of millions, but I did walk away with several in less than a decade of FANG. Once you do, you don’t have to live in high cost of living places like NYC or SF. At 4% annual returns on investment, it’s still more than the average American. Enough to even travel a bit, and save money in the long run ( by having the mental bandwidth to optimize a healthier life).

Interestingly, these can be the _result_ of creeping burnout. Video games, consuming something (drugs, food, etc) to distract or find a sense of fulfillment.