The more I think about IT industry the more I'm convinced that the majority of it is bullshit jobs [0]. Productivity, efficiency, job hopping, long term short t

The more I think about IT industry the more I'm convinced that the majority of it is bullshit jobs [0]. Productivity, efficiency, job hopping, long term short term - it all almost doesn't matter. Giving raise or not is not about an individual's contribution to the bottom line. It's about social status, pecking order and winning an argument for its own sake. > "There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it." Sure there are places where it matters. But for majority of projects it doesn't. There are countless examples of (semi-)failed projects with massive budgets, and those budgets keep getting allocated regardless of any track record. So no wonder a lot of people in this industry get bored. Will frequent job hopping hurt their future career prospects as one of the comments suggests? Probably not. Why? Because it is important that software projects fail - [1] [0] https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ [1] http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/ImportantThatSoftwareFails.html http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...