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Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave? by JohnFen on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:46PM (#38886662)
Only you know what's right for you. If I were in your position, though, I'd absolutely leave. There is a wide world of well-paying, very interesting, dev jobs out there that are also at great places to work.

Suffering in order to maximize income is, for me, a bad deal. You can enjoy life and make very good money even if it's not technically the most money you can possibly make.

> now I feel like my skills are degrading.

For me, speaking purely from a professional point of view, this is completely unacceptable. You need to be increasing your skills over time. If they're degrading, you're setting yourself up for a career disaster later on.

Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave? by streakofred on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:28AM (#38890226)
> Suffering in order to maximize income is, for me, a bad deal. You can enjoy life and make very good money even if it's not technically the most money you can possibly make.

You know, if you put it like this, it sounds pretty alarming. Thanks for the perspective.

> you're setting yourself up for a career disaster later on.

Exactly what I'm most afraid of I think.