It is so depriving to interview for new position the very same way with the very same narratives after three positions you don't really care about. Yes, I am a

It is so depriving to interview for new position the very same way with the very same narratives after three positions you don't really care about. Yes, I am a serial no-caring person now into three of my recent jobs after the initial months of inflated and intentional self blinding positivism pulled over my mind to numb it from fear of growing futileness. Previous two was left before even havin a new place, now I have children and it is so desperate economic reasoning stuck in a hopeless and unreliable situation that the demotivation is closing on unbearable poisoning my private life (this is what I want to show to my children?). I am trying to convince my wife (and in fact myself too) of working for myself instead. Different risky, but just different, not more. Staying is also risky. I am at the mercy of a disliked and faceless organization. People come and go, we were just aquired by an investor aiming at squeezing out more money, yes, not the product or activity is in the focus but pure money, the rest is secondary, whatever is fine as long the income grows, need to feed now the advisors and investors and lawyers and bankers in addition of the current organization, and in a shorten timeframe because there are clear goals about income for the next 5 years. About the income, the faith of the product is a secondary, indirect/dependent matter. People want their money back very soon, plus more. I can become an obstacle in any minute when they figure out they need no R&D for income in the next 5 years, just like with VMWare and Broadcom and similars. I find myself in a situation like shown in this The Economist article [1] with no hope finding better, as the others I am actively interviewing are already went through the same or going through the same currently: "Identify a mature business, ideally one that is critical for customers. Buy it at a decent price. Cut it to the bone by reducing the workforce, eliminating less lucrative products and slashing research-and-development budgets. Jack up prices for captive clients. Harvest the cash. Fork lots of it out to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases, which big tech tends to shun. Take what is left and repeat." Why try hard if I will end up in the same ditch not trying hard?.... [1] https://www.economist.com/business/2024/12/19/meet-the-most-ruthless-ceo-in-the-trillion-dollar-tech-club https://www.economist.com/business/2024/12/19/meet-the-most-...