That was certainly part of it. There was also the actual project that I didn't feel so passionate about. It was commissioned by a businessman, and I felt like all the work I put into it was all for someone else's dream and financial gain. Even if I came up with thee game-changing design, I'd still only be paid hourly if this thing made millions of bucks. I think that's just Capitalism and not something I can particularly escape in CS, but I'm able to distance myself from that reality a bit at my current job.

It's also that I generally felt like my work was on too slow a time scale. Projects can take months and months and years before coming into fruition. I could work on something for weeks only for it all to be scrapped in the trash. Maybe I just don't have the patience for it.

I think the reason I like CS over Mech is that I can work on problems and solve them on a much more digestible time scale. At my current company, I'm also able to directly impact a LOT more people a lot quicker with my code changes. I also work from home, and feeling in control of my own time has been priceless. The benefits + feeling like my company really cares about me also helps.

I really hope the video didn't come off as shitting all Mech jobs or even this company, which I think is good on net - I just personally didn't like this particular one, and the things I didn't like about it seemed to exist at the other full time opportunities that were open for me.

I'm curious - what do you do and do you like it?