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I've slowly felt my soul being crushed after five years at a small, Office Space-esque mechanical engineering firm in an LA suburb. Our perks include two 10-min
by nether 12y ago
I've slowly felt my soul being crushed after five years at a small, Office Space-esque mechanical engineering firm in an LA suburb. Our perks include two 10-minute breaks per day where we can make personal calls, walk around the parking lot, or close our office doors. Actual methods of analysis draw heavily from '70s to early '90s engineering. I sound horribly millennial (which I am) to complain about these things while I'm making six figures at age 29, but it feels stifling and inhumane to work like this.
- Chinjut 12y agoYou oughtn't feel guilty about finding your situation stifling and soul-crushing. (If that's horribly millenial, well, perhaps millenials have managed to see the matter clearly. Every insight starts in some generation.)
- dismal2 12y agowere you chained to your desk or something? what do you mean 10 minute breaks?
- atom-morgan 12y agoI know exactly what you mean. I felt the same way with my first job as a developer out of college. I'd always considered myself a mentally stable person until _that job_. Like you, I had the feeling that my complaints were those of "millennials" but I couldn't keep myself there. I eventually left and I'm glad I did.
- nether 12y agoI'm leaving in ten months. I have $60k in disposable savings (i.e. this excludes retirement) and a pickup truck. I will travel the world for at least a year, then do who knows what. Maybe I'll become a programmer.
- nimzo 12y agoGen-Xer here... you would be surprised to learn how many of us wholeheartedly agree with you.