Being stuck is part of the job. Most of my unhappiness stems from a few things: 1. Time pressure. I can't develop code that works right. I am not talking about

Being stuck is part of the job. Most of my unhappiness stems from a few things: 1. Time pressure. I can't develop code that works right. I am not talking about perfect performant portfolio work but as a backend developer many times I can't even hit the minimum standard of code quality because everything always needs to be done yesterday. Then I am responsible for it, and all the problems caused by deadlines are my problem, and every manager forgets they assigned me the deadline. 2. Pagerduty. Absolute worst thing to ever be perpetrated on development teams. It allows the C-levels to run "lean" teams because 4-8 developers rotate minimum 12/5 shifts, usually 24/5. 30 years ago this might have been necessary. We have been able to stagger timezones for the last decade now easily. 3. The work. It took me 10 years to land (by chance) a company with work that is interesting to me. My bar for interesting is so low at this point that on a scale of boring to life changing something that even remotely has me write other than boilerplate scores pretty high. Even now, I am responsible not only for the software but also for the devops (this is not a small company) which inevitably gets blocked to death by SREs, code review on another 2 repos for deployment, my own QA, etc. I do, effectively, the work of 4 different positions. I am paid for being a developer. Either raise my salary 40% or I will start dropping tasks. Remote work has been an absolute boon to me. I am unsure how anyone could take a negative stance on it. Sure I don't talk to people often but I don't honestly care. Work has always been work to me. Coworkers are not your friends and honestly they probably shouldn't be. Find meaning in your life elsewhere. With remote work I can actually do my job (program) instead of being in meeting after meeting where a PM waxes poetic on whatever is important to them in order to justify their meager existence at the company. I no longer have to listen to the CEO go on for hours about how good the company is, or feel like I have to join in for beers instead of going to do what I actually want, etc. Fuck everything about the office. I am fully convinced this is not an "extrovert" vs. "introvert" battle, but rather a battle of people who have actually woken up the realities of being a serf vs. the people who remain asleep suffering from stockholm syndrome.