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My solution is to try to move "down the stack" and retrain to work with C++ and math-heavy jobs (computer vision, simulation etc.). From what I'm hearing, developers in those area have much less contact with the business side of company.
The worst part is the high degree of censorship. Everyone is so sensitive now that it's impossible to speak openly
Learn how to work to live, instead of live to work. Automate as much as possible and use the free time in your own projects.
You can't automate meetings. Nor can you make PHBs become logical nor reasonable. Dilbert comic strip is actually a documentary.
I've thought about it a lot, I feel like everything the industry touches magically turns to shit.
Maybe I'm being a little negative, I know. But I think about things I really like, things I do for free in my spare time and when I put (imaginatively) on top of that a business layer, a management layer, a stakeholder layer, etc. I can see it being destroyed in front of my eyes (I'm not talking about computer stuff, but cooking, sports, writing...).
It's capitalism my friends. Alternatives?
To combat this feeling seeping into the other parts of my life, I have started to do some physical work, like cultivating gourmet mushrooms in my backyard. I asked for less hours some years ago, which means less income, but I am happier and I get to do physical work with my hands.
Learn how to work to live, instead of live to work. Automate as much as possible and use the free time in your own projects.
The work itself isn’t the issue, it’s the fluff around the work. Meetings, agile ceremonies, office politics/playing the game. There was a book on it, Bullshit jobs.
My current situation is I’m in the easiest job I’ve had, fantastic package, working the slowest I’ve ever worked with no manager pressure, no “what you doing, where’s the product”. With that it’s burning me out daily. Agile ceremonies, splitting hairs on non important details bike shedding, not delivering, no product in twelve months, everything needs a meeting, a design doc, and unanimous agreement from the team.
It’s killing me. I want to work hard and I want to build things and see things used. Essentially I’m sat twiddling thumbs knowing I am not working at my best because the culture/process is stopping me from actually doing the real work, the product features that customers pay for.
That's why I never got a data science job. They all seem too close to the business (much closer than typical web app development), and that's a bad thing in my book. My solution is to try to move "down the stack" and retrain to work with C++ and math-heavy jobs (computer vision, simulation etc.). From what I'm hearing, developers in those area have much less contact with the business side of company.
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You can't automate meetings. Nor can you make PHBs become logical nor reasonable. Dilbert comic strip is actually a documentary.
If the meeting is big enough, and you are remote, you can do whatever while "listening in" (and out of the other ear, if it doesn't concern you).