Tech jobs spend so much time getting up to speed, which some — maybe most — people don't find nourishing compared to actually moving at speed. Then something ne

Tech jobs spend so much time getting up to speed, which some — maybe most — people don't find nourishing compared to actually moving at speed. Then something new comes out and you grind back to a halt in order to work to get back up to speed again. In many other lines of work, you learn a skill, then refine it through work, with a trail of things created reflecting that development. In tech so many skills are disposable, and so little of the product survives iteration. The results likewise feel worthless to me, and over time the worthlessness of the work overtakes my own feelings of self-worth.