Yes. It lost its luster. I think it came from being disillusioned by the realities of working for my "dream" job and what once seemed like a challenge technically no longer seeming difficult.
Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry?
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#22I've found that the further away I get from "hacky, simple, works" scripts that wow the uninformed the less I enjoy my work. I wrote a Greenhouse bookmarklet for our Head of People a while back. All it did was click buttons, poll the page for content, and copy/paste some text. It took me two hours. It was such a magical experience hopping on a call, demoing the bookmarklet, and being told I'd saved someone tens of ho…
I'm in a similar position and took up coding random projects for micro controllers (e.g. Arduino & ESP32) precisely so that I could get a kick out of writing small amounts of functioning code that did stuff in a single evening. I was inspired to do this by somebody else who did exactly the same (although working in industrial design).
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#23Maybe you'd enjoy reading the story of why I quit tech to become a therapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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#24I’ve worked 13 years, looking forward to retirement.
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#25yup. imho, the high salaries we receive is a combination of both talent and willingness to do this rather unsatisfying work for long periods of time. If this paid as much as say, brick layer, I would rather have been the brick layer.
Enterprise coding is the mental equivalent of bricklaying though, for better or worse, at least this way my body is (slightly less) damaged by the labor.
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#26yup. imho, the high salaries we receive is a combination of both talent and willingness to do this rather unsatisfying work for long periods of time. If this paid as much as say, brick layer, I would rather have been the brick layer.
I used to think like this too, until I saw the physical pain that an older bricklayer experiences every day. Whilst I can also relate to the loss of enthusiasm, I also know that my body is much happier staying in IT.
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#27Yes, i have been there. I worked for 10 years as a developer when a pretty bad bore out hit me. I quit and started a business which failed but allowed me to reboot myself working in graphics and design. I profit from the technical background today but as developer but beeing a dev made me very, very unhappy.
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#28> I could focus on my current hobbies and start a business based on those. Not because of money, but because I'm looking for that excitement again. A life without money while slowly killing your hobbies is an interesting way to chase excitement I guess.
Indeed. I know quite a few people who turned their passions into jobs and ended up not enjoying their job or passion anymore. Familiarity breeds contempt, or just boredom. I ignore the trite 'Do a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life' and recognise that jobs are complex and have their ups and downs and for most people the activities you love are outside of work and that's OK.
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#29Yes I have. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, I always had that itch to become part of something bigger than yourself.. But in IT you're expected to stay in your cubicle and enjoy the ping pong table. After 11+ years professionally in IT, i've already seen it all.
So here I am; Ive been working for several companies, the last two being a "flat hierarchy" / Holacracy. Sound great right? Well no.. not if you want to grow to management to give that entrepreneurial mind a go again. Im stuck and it has been weighing me down for a while now. Ive applied for several CTO positions but because I've had "roles" instead of actual "job titles" companies wont take everything seiously. Im in a perdicament; On one side I'm tired of being rejected for work Im certainly qualified for, on the other side I dont want to be the loner freelancer (been there already) and on even another side I don't want to stay in that cubicle anymore. Im tired.. And im only 33.
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