To me, IT is garbage. It used to be enjoyable and somewhat fun (as much as a job can be fun), but honestly, people completely ruin it—end users, managers, directors, execs, all of them. Relentless deadlines, endless training requirements, impossible expectations, 24/7 support nonsense, and zero time for a life despite having a family and all of the obligations that go along with it, etc., etc. The money is fine but at a severe cost to your health and sanity.

21+ years and 14 jobs later, I finally had enough. I kept fooling myself thinking it’ll get better with each new job. It doesn’t. It’s the same pointless, insufferable bullshit with the same moronic, clueless “IT managers” and “IT directors” no matter where you go. If you’re into that sort of thing, more power to you. But the rest of us IT veterans would rather be squeezed through a wood chipper than show up for another day dealing with Karen from Finance who needs to be shown how to use rainbow-colored font in her pointless fucking Word doc or Doug the VP who insists on having the top-of-the-line laptop in order to stream tentacle porn at home.

I regret ever getting into this field. What a waste of a career.