The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
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Re: The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
#2I view my work at AWS as being paid to deal with meetings and other people. Hadnt I bills to pay and mouths to feed, I'd be doing this "work" for free. Well, almost, I'd be coding all day, but I wouldn't set foot on a single meeting.
Maybe it's a matter of perspective? It sure helps that I am working on interesting projects. Maybe the diff is that this is how I am having fun.
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#3There comes a time in everyone's career when they realize that the "emergency situation" they are in never really ends. There is always a fire to put out. There is always a P0 bug that will sink the entire company if not fixed. There is always a release that absolutely cannot be delayed for any reason, and everyone must work nights and weekends to get it out.
The best you can do is learn to tune out management bullshit and identify what is really important. There is no point losing sleep over the rest. It will be there to work on tomorrow, and the day after.
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#4Don't know if this person worked at FB, but FB literally has its walls covered in propaganda posters, designed to "inspire" but I find them to be disturbing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-propaganda-posters...
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#5I personally think all organizations want to be cults with unthinking followers. I read every inbound piece from "management" like they are propaganda leaflets with an implied threat of violence. It helps.
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#6I've been in security longer than most job applications ask for.
Every security solution is just the same Black Box with a one-trick-pony in it.
After the 40th one, they all kinda blur together after awhile. They all have accounts and permissions and reporting and maintenance and update processes and a way to store the data they create...and a single line on a single tab on a single webpage that 'does the trick'.
I'm with the OP. I'm tired of installing SIEMs when the leadership undergoes an upheaval and the new CISO comes in with some form of "Everything you have is CRAP! My stuff is awesome! Warm up the forklift!"
It's all the same alchohol lubricated meetings in a bar with the same deep fried taquitos and the same fidget spinners emblazoned with the product name, usually a VERBNOUN.
Re: The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
#7There comes a time in everyone's career when they realize that the "emergency situation" they are in never really ends. There is always a fire to put out. There is always a P0 bug that will sink the entire company if not fixed. There is always a release that absolutely cannot be delayed for any reason, and everyone must work nights and weekends to get it out. The best you can do is learn to tune out management bullsh…
This was an eye opening moment when it happened to me. Almost nothing has the impact it purports to have. Percentage-wise, very few things are the emergency/fire that people make them out to be, at least in the grand scheme of things.
I think part of it is that people get too wrapped up in their local world and don't see the big picture. For instance "If we don't get this widget added to the thingamabob in the next 3 days the company will go under!" when the thingamabob is just a minor piece of the puzzle for the larger company. Part of it though is driven from the top.
The one downside to having had this realization is it goes both ways. It also means that very few things you do have impact in a positive way as well. For some people this can be motivation killing.
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#8Don't know if this person worked at FB, but FB literally has its walls covered in propaganda posters, designed to "inspire" but I find them to be disturbing. https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-propaganda-posters...
i once worked in a small company that had a new ceo. he read about the posters at facebook and decided to invent some of his own, so he came up with a stupid phrase and got designers to mock a bunch up and print them out (if i remember correctly, it was some variant of "Keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times" and had pictures of rollercoasters).
the posters were very effective at getting us to stop taking the new ceo seriously.
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#9As far as I'm concerned, it always was and always shall be "work faster or die". I was unaware that we were given a third choice?
Re: The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
#10I left silicon valley because of agile development. Sprinting all the time was the thing that lead to my burnout, and when we finally released our app, the company was pivoting and 'going epic mode'. I quit then.
In retrospect it would've been fine if I had taken a more relaxed attitude towards it all. Sprints don't mean you have to literally sprint. Epic mode is just a narrative. Work at your pace and it'll be fine.