Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
by hindsightbias on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:50AM
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Sadly, don’t get to school the youts in my end-job, but when I look at my peers, they would just be seen as gatekeepers.
For me, old-dog-learns-new-tricks, I spent the weekend debugging why an ansible script failed. This would be the fourth in the last half year.
Now, I appreciate the work people did, but in the end, I had to figure out why packages x, y and z and dependencies a, b and c would not play on distro N. The deeper I go, the less google is my friend.
I agree that everything is cyclical, but if I was 20-something, I’d just go to a bootcamp for mainframes. 30 years ago, my worst case was RTFM, and damn if the answers weren’t in there.
Today... your mentor is barely keeping it together.
I am so blessed to have entered when I did. But even then, the road was littered with peers who are not the same.
For me, old-dog-learns-new-tricks, I spent the weekend debugging why an ansible script failed. This would be the fourth in the last half year.
Now, I appreciate the work people did, but in the end, I had to figure out why packages x, y and z and dependencies a, b and c would not play on distro N. The deeper I go, the less google is my friend.
I agree that everything is cyclical, but if I was 20-something, I’d just go to a bootcamp for mainframes. 30 years ago, my worst case was RTFM, and damn if the answers weren’t in there.
Today... your mentor is barely keeping it together.
I am so blessed to have entered when I did. But even then, the road was littered with peers who are not the same.