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+ Work hours typically above 45 hrs/week + Work on weekends regularly + SRE + DevOps + Back-end roles + Painfully aware of current company's runway Admitted
by ben_jones 11y ago
+ Work hours typically above 45 hrs/week
+ Work on weekends regularly
+ SRE + DevOps + Back-end roles
+ Painfully aware of current company's runway
Admittedly much of the pressure is internal (I take responsibility for the successes and failure of my work, which increases anxiety and influences me to work longer hours), am I an outlier?
I honestly believe the industry pushes this towards the norm with a mixture of the "full-stack-engineer" and "start-up culture" motifs.
By the way I'm also asserting that the high rates of depression, anxiety, and mental health disorder, prove that SWE is a demanding field.
- solipsism 11y agoHave you considered not working at a web startup? It's a big world, there are a lot of software engineering jobs that are nothing at all like what you describe.
- douche 11y agoStill, you're working inside, for a steady, generally hefty, paycheck, with very low chances of catastrophic physical injury, with very low exposure to harmful chemicals and carcinogens. It's a high-demand field, with a lot of options. Beats the pants off of back-breaking manual or industrial labor. I certainly think there's a huge problem with a lot of software jobs being essentially pointless, with an enormous disconnect between the time and effort expended and the tangible results of that effort, which takes a psychological toll. So much of what software and IT does is digging holes and filling them back in, or battling imaginary rules and processes, working on top of a fragile, rickety stack of other software that fails if you look at it cross-eyed.
- george_soros 11y agoYou are forgetting about stress completely.