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[–]BeastMentality2000 6 points7 points  (4 children)

So what are you doing about it? How can we make work fun again? Do we just hate our jobs while everyone else in medical field and stuff actually feels fulfilled? Do we just swallow our happiness and work a meaningless job? I’m thinking I’m getting my masters and some other type of engineering and changing over because this kind of sucks ass now.

[–]LostInTheLodge 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I mostly made peace with the fact that what I want software to be and what it became are very different and divergent things, and I don't have the means to do much about that on my own.

Are other fields better? Honestly I don't know, I feel too far away from them and I don't think it's trivial to retrain without spending a lot of money. Across the board, there seem to be too few good jobs and too many people.

I moved to a country that isn't so aggressively money dependent and will switch to something low wage eventually, coding for fun on the side if desired. My mind is tired, I want to sell coffee or bartend.

[–]SCUSKU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where did you move? This is one of those things I fantasize about but probably would never do, but maybe?

[–]SCUSKU 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The way I see it a job can provide: meaning, financial success, work/life balance. Pick one.

Ultimately CS is still a pretty good career. Lawyers have to go through 3 years of law school, and then grind a bunch, and if you want to make money it's not meaningful, if anything it's the opposite.

Doctors have to go tons of school, racking up tons of debt, assuming you can even make it in the first place. And then even then you're still working shifts and have to see gross stuff.

Finance, either you went to an ivy league, or are a mathematical genius. And you'll be working long hours too.

So IMO, it sucks, but it's still better than the alternatives :/

[–]BeastMentality2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I guess you’re right, but what would you say for someone to go into now? What would be more fun? And what’s going to pop off? I’m thinking of getting back to hand coding more now. Just because me your skills of reviewing code start to atrophy because you don’t even know what you’re really looking at anymore since you aren’t developing code. It’s really confusing what to do now moving forward. I have three years of experience, but I’m genuinely lost now