I worked for one of the largest auction companies in the world, which specializes in agriculture and construction equipment (should not be too hard to find). It

I worked for one of the largest auction companies in the world, which specializes in agriculture and construction equipment (should not be too hard to find). It was initially just fine, but like many others in the thread it was soul crushing and led to burnout and depression, subsequently forcing me to re-evaluate many aspects of my life. It was a complicated choice. It paid double what I made previously and I was out of work for many months at the time. It brought me to a better city for a while. But I didn't really accomplish anything there. I was ostracized from the culture of the place—which I suspected I would be before taking the job—because at heart I'm very far from the drab "yes" people that work there, play the politics, and wear slacks. It was novel that I wanted to work elsewhere than my group cube thing. I tried and failed to use the shitty HP ThickBook workstation that was assigned to me, ultimately bringing my own mac and being the only dev to have one, because they're for designers. I stayed too long and should have left before they fired me, but it's tough to quit. I just kept thinking "Ya things are going very badly, but maybe if I persevere we can get this done". Bad choice. Use your intuition and don't second guess yourself. The tech stack and other aspects of the place were equally bad, but I probably don't need to elaborate any more.