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Super burnout angst BUT I'm about to quit in a week for a three month or more sabbatical I've been planning over a year. Been at the same company and same proj
by r0s 4y ago
Super burnout angst BUT I'm about to quit in a week for a three month or more sabbatical I've been planning over a year.
Been at the same company and same project for almost ten years. Completely burnt out on code for enterprise crud web apps. I just lost all interest. Spent a few years deep diving into testing and ops, but even that now I can only see the obvious best practices while the only challenge left is begging for management buy in. I still code for myself, tons of personal projects, but for work I only want to manage.
After being passed over for promotion I was basically promised, I started looking around and realized I have tons of options, recruiters love me. Did a few half-hearted interviews, actually declined a few after meeting the leadership. Realized suddenly I could setup a better situation than just jumping jobs.
One frustrating year later: Refinanced all my debt, saved a bunch of money for extended expenses and I can't wait to give notice.
"No I don't have another job. I'm doing thirty days of already booked and paid for travel with friends, then I'm going to come home and do NOTHING for a while, then finish my novel. Oh and I also released an app recently, check it out."
- wnolens 4y agoI did something similar many years ago. It is going to feel even better than you think. "Hey boss, I've decided to leave the company" "Oh.. to where?" "No where" "What are you going to do?" "Travel, play music, anything but work" They have no cards. There's no counter offer they can make. They'll know they lost you purely due to their own fault. I was offered a "come back anytime please" deal lol. So essentially a ZERO RISK SABBATICAL WOOOOO