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"creating a vacancy" is a cute sentiment but in my experience management just doesn't hire replacements
World has gone to dogs. No country/job/company for decent men. Feeling of inside animal farm is real. Spend time with your kids/partner/parents/friends/family, everything else is just tightening up your own chains.
Absolutely man. I'm a tech person with experience and degree but I've truly learned that what counts is finding something unique where you feel valued and have close friends at work . We all die why focus on monet when there Is so much more to life . I've said it before and now I stand even more behind it I'm not moving to LA or NY for any tech job ever . I've made sacrifices and moved for work but life is just too short to not enjoy the few little things in life that make you happy including nice people
I feel that way at times, it just hits me how utterly pointless a lot of what we do really is. We make apps so lazy people can maximize their laziness. Great. On the other hand, we're not exactly laboring in a coal mine or on a farm or a factory floor. When I put it in those terms, and think about people who actually work hard, my complaints are pretty ridiculous.
While those jobs are more physically grueling, the labor is also much more aligned with their value. I feel like that’s such a new concept for humans that isn’t talked about much. Sure our work is meaningless, but it’s also disconnected gibberish. Farming or working in a coal mine isn’t changing the world, but you’re physically in the work, vs emailing about optimizing some random marketing campaign for dish soap. We appreciate physical comfort of our jobs while forgetting that the mental discomfort is significant as well.
Here’s what I have learned after a lot of years in the IT world. IT people are just a tool (not unlike the devices they manage and maintain). They are simply put “a necessary evil”. There’s a reason that people leave the industry or at best roam from role to role and company to company.
Insanity is doing the same things and expecting a different outcome.
So view it as a job. And one that pays well and decent benefits! Just a view after 18 months of retirement and finding deep satisfaction in the work done and the people that worked so closely with me. Did we change the world? Maybe, maybe not. Did we excel in our tasks. Without a doubt. Sometimes when your work career ends and you realize your achievements; things become clearer.
God bless everyone in their lives and careers.
Yes, that’s for sure! I saw it coming for at least 2-3 years. I held out as long as I could. Then enough was enough.
There’s life after Enterprise Tech!
Best of luck my friends!
I would recommend staying away from the government for the time being
We all want to make the world a better place. Maybe see if you can change the nature of your job or workplace without needing to leave it?
I would counter that it’s easier to make change in a smaller company than a bigger one. Trust me on this.
Brother I was a machinist for 30 years and a lot of people asked me why I got out of it. My answer was always " burnt out " but the truth is that most people in tech get out because they are constantly being taken advantage of. I've invented several processes and made custom tools. Even machined parts for the Hubble telescope. And the only thing I was given was a copy of the Ingersoll magazine that ran the article about the process that I invented because I used their turbo. Every company blocked every patent that I tried to submit on a process and tools that I invented. Corporate greed pushes people out of tech!
That's awful I'm sorry it isn't right and corporate grees sure does rule a lot
This is a good attitude to have. You're very lucky. And grateful which is unlike most of the population.
As a Solution Architect you do have the capability to push your own agenda and business case if you see an opportunity for the business to improve or realign its technology to the business strategy.
You could look at sharing some of your time to a cause that aligns with your values. Otherwise plenty of not for profit companies need Solution Architects. Most pay reasonably well.
Yes, I have been thinking about that. I have searched a few times as well. Maybe I should try that again and see if third time is the charm
You're right in saying you're lucky. Speaking as someone who was laid off in November last year I would suggest keeping your current job and working behind the scenes on finding somewhere else that better aligns with your goals.
Burn-out is a real thing, not a limitation on your part. After 28 years, I burned out in 2020 when Covid cranked up the hours on top of the 60 - 80 hours I was already working. By the time 2021 rolled around, I had left job for another kept up the stress eventually forcing me to resign October 2021. I returned to work in May 2023 when we decided that we needed my income, but this time I went with contracting. If it were not for that, I know I would have been back to 60 to 80 hour weeks because a salary = "you work as much as needed because we pay you for 40 hours". That's the crux of being in IT in 2025, you work far more than 40 hours either because you are high up in the tree or it's the nature of the business.
I say everyone here should be working on a side project that could become their main source of income, at some future point. At no other point in history has it been easier to connect with like minded people or explore that side project.
Do you have an idea on board or are you just lamenting?
I have 6 kids and a business. But if you start within the next week, I'll join you. Otherwise the dream dies forever. Now or never, man. Change the world if you want.
100 true
I was feeling a similar way for a couple years and tried to make it work for me and my company, but ultimately I was laid off last year. Since I had been with my company for years I was not prepared to interview. And trying to build a resume after the fact was difficult.
Start preparing now for your next job now, even if you decide to stay with your current employer for years to come. Build a portfolio, build your network, keep your resume updated, keep your technical skills sharp (DSA).
Pathetic to see men struggle like this while women are asking for DEI while doing onlyfans and escorting and making serious bank.
Yep
Our world today I guess . I like cleaning and have a ton of experience and just about every job I met someone great. Giving tech a break until something changes life too short to be miserable and stuck In place
I'll be really blunt... We all want to make the world a better place and many of us are burned out, but this is one of those years - and probably multiple years - that we all just need to get through and do our best to survive. I lived through every boom and bust cycle since the dotcom bubble (right around when my career began) and we are, without a doubt, on the skids again... Once we get through this era of absurdly pointless uncertainty (That is, if we do and still have a functioning economy) go out and find what makes your heart sing... But today, and for the foreseeable future, focus on surviving, saving, and making do with what you have. We're in rough waters again, you're the person with the most interest in keeping yourself afloat. Get yours and keep it. Do "good" later when things settle down.
Stay away from the news and social media.
I could have written this post myself… no wise words. I feel the same.
I so feel this! I have a boss that I don't get along with and I keep contemplating looking for something else but keep telling myself the benefits of working at this company and that I'm so lucky to have this job.
Why do you always come today? I told you to come tomorrow. But I came tomorrow. No, you have come today because today is today, not tomorrow. Stop on coming today, come tomorrow. See how it works? :)
Tomorrow just doesn't exist and it never comes till you do it now / today.. I know that deep down in our hearts dreams never die.. actions do.. Haste makes waste too though.. plan.. but not for too long.. then follow your dreams as you live only once and your life is too short to spend it for boring jobs and for doing things that you don't like..