What did you do instead?
There is not a me problem though. Not in the sense of me being maladjusted to a fucked up world. If by checking out you mean see a therapist to beef me up against the way we live and/or medicate myself out of it then no thanks. That'd be throwing in the towel which if I were to do I wouldn't reach out here and elsewhere. Also tried talking with a few therapists. How to put it kindly? All they cared about is taking my money and ensure that I'm already convinced that they will help me (but it's part of their damned jobs to convince me they are not useless). So, thanks but no thanks. I'll keep looking but the sample so far was subpar.
I feel I'm constantly painting myself in a career corner.I'm now in my third in a row role/company that I hate. Maybe I hate this line of work. Dunno. I find it very difficult to bear with shitty colleagues each with his own agenda, trying to understand shitty designs and code made long before me, learning shit, drink the corporate cool-aid (always the same shitty taste regardless of the...
You won't enjoy it and the uncle Bobs of this world are insufferable but OTOH there's so many places to work that you can iterate till you find something that suits you. You can coast with that skillset till your retirement. Not to mention consulting after while.