I agree with your last sentence. I spent years in adtech (equally soulless hahahaha). Honestly the people were great, management was happy, employees were happy

I agree with your last sentence. I spent years in adtech (equally soulless hahahaha). Honestly the people were great, management was happy, employees were happy. We had an office a 5 minute walk away from venice beach in los angeles. Daily work was gluing together questionably written at best ad libraries. There weren't many promotion opportunities because the business grew horizontally by acquiring other websites. I ended up moving to Taiwan because I wanted to get better at Chinese and wanted to escape COVID in California, but otherwise working in a soulless field with great people was a good experience.