#SoftwareEngineer #CareerChange #Burnout #TechIndustry
Hey fellow techies! 👩💻 Can we have a heart-to-heart about something that’s been weighing on my mind lately? I’ll cut straight to the chase: I am so tired of working as a software engineer. 😔
I’ve been through the ringer with my past experiences in the industry, facing burnout and disillusionment along the way. But even with boundaries in place at my current job, the spark just isn’t there anymore. 😕
Here are some thoughts I’ve been mulling over:
– Maybe it’s time for a career change? 💼
– Exploring different roles within the tech industry? 🌐
– Taking a break to rediscover my passion for coding? 🌟
Have any of you experienced something similar? What did you do to reignite your love for software engineering? Share your insights and let’s figure this out together! 🚀
Let’s create a supportive space where we can help each other navigate these feelings and find a path that brings fulfillment and joy back to our work. 💪 #CommunitySupport #TechLifeBalance
you don’t need your job to be dreamy or exciting or meaningful or magical or a source of fulfillment – it’s literally just an exchange of labor for money (and a relatively lucrative one at that). try and find meaning and “magic” outside work by doing side projects or hobbies or whatever. nobody’s stopping you from doing that.
Lots of people got into the career for the money, and illusions that it is an easy career.
I think you are not alone. As a senior dev with 10yoe I never been so tired and exhausted. And it’s not like I don’t like my work. I still do like coding, creating products, system design etc. But I fucking hate how work looks like now.
Micromanagement, meetings that could be emails, politics of business ppl, corpo shit everywhere, and above all – a little interest in bringing real value. And please, don’t start with „company should make money”. Sure, but nowadays everyone starts with „how can I get more money” instead of, for example „how can I build something that helps people with x or y and will bring money”.
That’s why we have milion of clones of the same apps, shitty performance and quality, in general enshittification of tech industry.
Welcome to the club. Working as a SWE for me now is just a means to an end. Fortunately it’s a high paying one, so that end comes sooner.
I’m hardly qualified to comment, but this might be the after effects of your previous job still.
It’s still “work” and even though it’s better and different than the last place that treated you poorly, you might treat it the same internally (for lack of a better word).
Call it “trust issues” if you will.
It might not be the field or the career, even though it feels like that.
I feel you. I can hardly remember the last time I worked on something interesting, every single thing I do is so tedious, the risk of introducing new bugs and whatever is so high and stressful.
Job is just a means for fulfillment. No job would equate to poverty and/or homelessness. It’s transactional and not a purpose to your life. My suggestion is look for that “full” feeling elsewhere. Like yourself, hobbies or if I have, personal relationships.
One of the biggest things that helped me (seriously) was being able to find satisfaction in my work rather than passion or dreams.
I know that I work in mundane ad tech that is not the next cutting edge movie, cool video game, awe inspiring artwork, life saving surgery, etc.
And I’m fine with that. My passions are outside of work (traveling, building things by hand, occasionally coding something for fun, etc).
When I finish my work for the day I go home knowing I did my part and that’s all you should ask for after your paycheck of course.
Fuck anyone, employer or colleague alike who says you need to be passionate about this. I’m not but I do a good job and work for a major streaming company so it’s not like my career is in the pits.
End rant, a lot of us have been where you are at, it gets better when you shift perspective (I did after experiencing the same burn out from insane hours and layoffs)
it’s okay to feel this way whoever says different they’re morons with no other interests in life
IT work isn’t easy
Unfortunately work is to get money so you can actually enjoy your life. That’s capitalism, or sucks for the worker. You had the misfortune of not being born rich and thus must sell your labor power for a wage or starve. There’s a political solution to the problem but that’s another discussion.
I like programming but find working as a software developer stressful and boring. It’s a complex web of spaghetti code of different tech stacks that barely work together, endless sprints.
I program after work vintage C stuff, compilers and other things and do enjoy it since it’s contained to core software development without the corporate muck of stringing things together.
Hmm so what’s the plan here?