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Take this as constructive advice: stop expecting your job to be fulfilling. Yes, most jobs are filled with corporate drudgery. Business doesn't generally requi

Take this as constructive advice: stop expecting your job to be fulfilling. Yes, most jobs are filled with corporate drudgery. Business doesn't generally require tough (technical) problems to be solved. The point of business is always to make money by serving the customer. You need to find a way to thrive in that environment otherwise you'll just drown. I work on boring-ass bank payment stuff. I spend my days writing google docs and convincing PMs that their ideas are totally out of whack and hold their hands as I explain how things need to be done to not code ourselves into a corner. I barely code and when I do it's mostly some stupid API calls and shoving that from one DB to another. Instead I look at my job as a way to make loads of money and get better at my social skills, and outside of work I do the hard cool technical work I want to do. And I am able to do that because I really, really want to code. I don't waste time on social media, games, etc. Coding is more fulfilling than that for me so I do that instead. If you can find a job that lines up with your interests, great! Go for it! But there's no ideal job and there will always be stupid work that someone needs to do. As someone told me early in my career: different company, same shit

engineeringwoke 4y ago
Great advice
the_only_law 4y ago
> Instead I look at my job as a way to make loads of money and get better at my social skills, and outside of work I do the hard cool technical work I want to do. This was my previous job… sort of. It paid well enough that I was going to use it to ultimately save enough money to get out and pursue other things. But then I got laid off. And now the market is looking so destitute, and the money looks like it will dry up for people like me. Without the money there’s nothing to keep me around except for the fact that it’s too late to do something else (at least anything worth doing). I never even planned to go into software development as a career, definitely not initially. It just happened to be a good ticket for a young uneducated person who needed to pay rent, and had hacked around a lot in the past.
- _trackno5 4y ago
  I’m sorry you got laid off and i understand you may feel down right now, But there are a few things in your comment that are concerning. First, the market sucks at the moment but there’s no reason the money will dry up for you. Keep your skills up, practice for the interviews and you’ll be good. Don’t get into this mindset that it’s too late to do something worth doing. The only time it’s too late is when you’re dead. Do you really wanna go through life with this kind of self-pity? Who the heck cares if could’ve done something different earlier? You already spent those life years and you ain’t getting them back. The only way is forward. If you were good enough to get a well paying job, you’re definitely good enough to grind till you get where you want to be. My next piece of advice is to stop thinking you’ll be able to save enough to quit and do something else. You won’t. The situation will never be ideal and you’ll just have to commit and do it. Sure build some cushion, ideally use the money you save to generate you some income (e.g., buy a rental property), but you’ll still have to make the jump. The only way you’ll make it is by believing you can do it in the first place.

engineeringwoke 4y ago

Great advice

the_only_law 4y ago

> Instead I look at my job as a way to make loads of money and get better at my social skills, and outside of work I do the hard cool technical work I want to do. This was my previous job… sort of. It paid well enough that I was going to use it to ultimately save enough money to get out and pursue other things. But then I got laid off. And now the market is looking so destitute, and the money looks like it will dry up for people like me. Without the money there’s nothing to keep me around except for the fact that it’s too late to do something else (at least anything worth doing). I never even planned to go into software development as a career, definitely not initially. It just happened to be a good ticket for a young uneducated person who needed to pay rent, and had hacked around a lot in the past.

_trackno5 4y ago
I’m sorry you got laid off and i understand you may feel down right now, But there are a few things in your comment that are concerning. First, the market sucks at the moment but there’s no reason the money will dry up for you. Keep your skills up, practice for the interviews and you’ll be good. Don’t get into this mindset that it’s too late to do something worth doing. The only time it’s too late is when you’re dead. Do you really wanna go through life with this kind of self-pity? Who the heck cares if could’ve done something different earlier? You already spent those life years and you ain’t getting them back. The only way is forward. If you were good enough to get a well paying job, you’re definitely good enough to grind till you get where you want to be. My next piece of advice is to stop thinking you’ll be able to save enough to quit and do something else. You won’t. The situation will never be ideal and you’ll just have to commit and do it. Sure build some cushion, ideally use the money you save to generate you some income (e.g., buy a rental property), but you’ll still have to make the jump. The only way you’ll make it is by believing you can do it in the first place.