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I was surprised by how much I hated it. It caused an existential crisis for me to have reached the "pinnacle" job and to feel so alienated and pointless.

• throw_this_one 7y ago
  What was so alienating and pointless about it?
  • throwawaymsft 7y ago
    Not OP, but I saw people wasting their lives on "big projects" that actually had little impact. (And that's if you're lucky enough to have it ship and not be cancelled.) Imagine you are designing the McDonald's hamburger wrapper. "Oh, your work will be shown to millions of people!" And nobody really cares. I'd rather design something smaller that is truly appreciated.
    • aabeshou 7y ago
      it's absolutely this, and also, to go along with the analogy, feeling like "is McDonalds really a positive thing for the world? and why does it seem so verboten to express doubt about the absolute positivity of our mission?"