Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry?

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry? by watermelon59 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:00PM (#25152255)

I feel like I'm in your friend's position right now. I absolutely hate working on services. Hate having to muck around with AWS and Kubernetes. I like writing code, period (that excludes Terraform and YAML in my definition). I also have an interest (though nil actual experience) in embedded systems. It's what I play with in my free time to keep my brain working and not going totally insane.

I stay because the company where I work at pays me a handsome salary, RSUs, and has great benefits. Somehow my team likes me. Somehow I made it to a high position... though I suspect I've been promoted to the level of my incompetence and the next perf review won't be great.

The problem is that I'm so burned out right now that no job at all sounds appealing.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry? by pedalpete on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:10PM (#25154388)

Yup, super similar situation as my friend. He was actually interviewing with some interesting companies, but part of the problem, even if they had a good tech stack, was he'd be a small cog in a big wheel.

That's one of the appeals of some startups, you're making an impact, as long as you love the problem they're solving, and think they'll be "successful", whatever that means to you.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry? by watermelon59 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:05PM (#25155947)

You know, I actually wouldn't mind being a small cog if I could exercise the skills I consider to be my strengths.

What I'm fed up with is being given task after task where I have to learn whole new technologies each time, with not enough time to learn and do a decent job. It makes me feel incompetent and useless.

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