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I have been having similar thoughts recently. With just 4 years into my career (working at a FAANG for last 2), I too am looking around for a job. But it all lo

I have been having similar thoughts recently. With just 4 years into my career (working at a FAANG for last 2), I too am looking around for a job. But it all looks the same corporate BS, providing "business value", grinding for promotion, being a small cog in a enormous machine, dealing with middle managers and their egos and endless insecurity, estimations and deadline chasing, I feel so done and tired. Add the bullshit interview process on top of all this and it is enough for me to never want to change jobs again. I feel like I am in hell.

5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
same, i'm in a job where i can sort of coast, it's stressful, the people mostly, but the work is easy. i lost interest in dealing with all the bs and whenever i try to look at the job market i just feel too demoralised to go through all the hoops just to get another job where i will be dealing with the same or new kind of bs. i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more.
- cableshaft 5y ago
  What do you think you might do after coding? Management or a different field entirely? I've considered management but I also don't really want to deal with people bullshit, and I'm having a harder and harder time listening to bullshit business meetings in general, and I imagine there'd be a lot more of those.
  - 5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
    something different. also maybe get back into academia somehow. i would take a 70% paycut to do some low key work where i don't need to deal with an office, and office politics.
    - cableshaft 5y ago
      Wow. I don't think I could easily afford a 70% paycut. 20% maybe, but 70% is a pretty deep cut. Good on you for being in a situation where that's a viable option!
- throwaway6532 5y ago
  >i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more. This is how I feel after only 7 years, and I need to do another 9 more :(

5350-uiop-1130 5y ago

same, i'm in a job where i can sort of coast, it's stressful, the people mostly, but the work is easy. i lost interest in dealing with all the bs and whenever i try to look at the job market i just feel too demoralised to go through all the hoops just to get another job where i will be dealing with the same or new kind of bs. i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more.

cableshaft 5y ago
What do you think you might do after coding? Management or a different field entirely? I've considered management but I also don't really want to deal with people bullshit, and I'm having a harder and harder time listening to bullshit business meetings in general, and I imagine there'd be a lot more of those.
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
  something different. also maybe get back into academia somehow. i would take a 70% paycut to do some low key work where i don't need to deal with an office, and office politics.
  - cableshaft 5y ago
    Wow. I don't think I could easily afford a 70% paycut. 20% maybe, but 70% is a pretty deep cut. Good on you for being in a situation where that's a viable option!
throwaway6532 5y ago
>i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more. This is how I feel after only 7 years, and I need to do another 9 more :(