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> Personally I think quitting something that is amazing in so many ways but doesn't fulfil your front end needs after only 5m is something you may come to regre

> Personally I think quitting something that is amazing in so many ways but doesn't fulfil your front end needs after only 5m is something you may come to regret. > Did you ask for a change of team / change of work focus? Did you bring up your issues with a manager? If you were on my team and an attrition risk due to not working in the tech you were hired for I'd have made sure that was changed. I'm not sure if I misunderstand the blogpost, or if you do, but I gather the author quit because they realize they didn't like eCommerce after all. At least that's the impression I get from this passage: > This line of self-questioning mutated into, "Do I care about eCommerce?" It was a question I never had the bravery to ask myself before. I've worked almost exclusively in eCommerce of one form or another since I started working in tech. I began to wonder if it might be time to try something different. So changing team or work focus probably wouldn't help the author, as the core theme of the company wasn't attractive.

monkeynotes 5y ago
I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce. If the author is morally opposed to ecommerce then good for them sticking to principles, but other than that I don't feel like they gave the job a fair shake. People are different though, but I'd love a job with as much time off as I like and I'd be willing to work in an industry I didn't love if the people, benefits, compensation, technology, and culture were all great fits. I mean, I switch off at 5pm so maybe I am different.
- capableweb 5y ago
  > I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce Yeah, I thought about that too at first, maybe he could build internal tooling supporting the developer teams for example. But I think if I didn't believe in what the company overall did, I wouldn't have any motivation to help their developer teams being more efficient either. > maybe I am different Yeah, I do think that's the answer in the end, we're all different and value different things :) I for example would trade all the things you listed for just working on something I personally believe in, as I see those other things as changeable over time, but the mission of a company tends to stay mostly within the same radius, so unless that resonates, I'm over it quickly. Shopify is just consumerism at scale, something I don't care about, even though the pay would be nice and I got "unlimited" time off, I wouldn't work there.

monkeynotes 5y ago

I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce. If the author is morally opposed to ecommerce then good for them sticking to principles, but other than that I don't feel like they gave the job a fair shake. People are different though, but I'd love a job with as much time off as I like and I'd be willing to work in an industry I didn't love if the people, benefits, compensation, technology, and culture were all great fits. I mean, I switch off at 5pm so maybe I am different.

capableweb 5y ago
> I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce Yeah, I thought about that too at first, maybe he could build internal tooling supporting the developer teams for example. But I think if I didn't believe in what the company overall did, I wouldn't have any motivation to help their developer teams being more efficient either. > maybe I am different Yeah, I do think that's the answer in the end, we're all different and value different things :) I for example would trade all the things you listed for just working on something I personally believe in, as I see those other things as changeable over time, but the mission of a company tends to stay mostly within the same radius, so unless that resonates, I'm over it quickly. Shopify is just consumerism at scale, something I don't care about, even though the pay would be nice and I got "unlimited" time off, I wouldn't work there.