Ok, one last piece of advice from someone who knows almost nothing about your day-to-day, just what you initially wrote.
Your value isn’t from the skills you have, it comes from your ability to apply them to problems to produce a useful outcome.
What parts of your job can benefit from applying your software engineering skills? It could make things a lot more bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.
Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave?
by streakofred on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:38PM
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> What parts of your job can benefit from applying your software engineering skills? It could make things a lot more bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.
Thank you, this sounds like a good first step to getting some more passion into my day to day.
Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave?
by quickthrower2 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @03:49AM
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That said they are definitely jobs where you spend 80% time coding and there are new features to code if not greenfield work. Finding them is a challenge to itself though, but asking in the interview is a good idea.
> Also, please don't spend all of your free time coding.
Sadly, I'm pretty drained after work these days so I usually do everything else.