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Bored AND frustrated... I'm curious what you do for work? That's one of the worst combinations in terms of human-factors.

giantg2 5y ago
I work with fees software at a financial company. It's boring because most of the work is about copying data from legacy systems to new systems. The changes are usually low impact and dealing with missed edge cases. Collecting a fee is not an interesting task, at least not the way this work is defined. It's frustrating because the system is basically a distributed monolith and is constantly breaking or needing upgrades. It's also frustrating because I'm expected to be full stack in multiple stacks and bounce around too much to be an expert in any one thing (no upward mobility). Quite often our tools are broken or I'm fixing someone else's mistakes. It's disappointing to be in a zero growth environment when my prior roles were more meaningful and gave me an opportunity to perform above my current level. Over half our team left, so I was the most experienced as a midlevel with a junior and contractor under me. You know, in just to validate the human-factor comment :)
- tyckvgkv 5y ago
  I have actually enjoyed fixing and modernizing broken legacy systems. But it sounds like your company has placed too much cognitive load on you. Most people know only one or two stacks. I read your other comments too, I think you are really overworked. I would leave asap.
  - giantg2 5y ago
    I would love modernizing systems, but there's no imagination here. Like, come on, let's reevaluate the underlying business process to see if it still makes sense. Maybe there are some tweaks we can make to it that weren't an option under the old system. Fragility has always been an issue, yet I see us doing nothing about it. Now we've moved it to microservices, but it's just a distributed monolith.

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Bored AND frustrated... I'm curious what you do for work? That's one of the worst combinations in terms of human-factors.

by WFHRenaissance 5y ago

giantg2 5y ago
I work with fees software at a financial company. It's boring because most of the work is about copying data from legacy systems to new systems. The changes are usually low impact and dealing with missed edge cases. Collecting a fee is not an interesting task, at least not the way this work is defined. It's frustrating because the system is basically a distributed monolith and is constantly breaking or needing upgrades. It's also frustrating because I'm expected to be full stack in multiple stacks and bounce around too much to be an expert in any one thing (no upward mobility). Quite often our tools are broken or I'm fixing someone else's mistakes. It's disappointing to be in a zero growth environment when my prior roles were more meaningful and gave me an opportunity to perform above my current level. Over half our team left, so I was the most experienced as a midlevel with a junior and contractor under me. You know, in just to validate the human-factor comment :)
- tyckvgkv 5y ago
  I have actually enjoyed fixing and modernizing broken legacy systems. But it sounds like your company has placed too much cognitive load on you. Most people know only one or two stacks. I read your other comments too, I think you are really overworked. I would leave asap.
  - giantg2 5y ago
    I would love modernizing systems, but there's no imagination here. Like, come on, let's reevaluate the underlying business process to see if it still makes sense. Maybe there are some tweaks we can make to it that weren't an option under the old system. Fragility has always been an issue, yet I see us doing nothing about it. Now we've moved it to microservices, but it's just a distributed monolith.