When I was in my 30s, I started seeing one really weird phenomenon.
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When I was in my 30s, I started seeing one really weird phenomenon. Really smart and talented people in #IT world just retired at very young age or changed to something completely different field, usually into something that is just mostly labor with minimal or zero connection to anything technological.
After watching how everything I had loved about the field has slowly been reduced to pointless crap that just endlessly stresses me out without giving any kind of sense of accomplishment, now at 45 I suddenly get the attraction of just jumping the ship and go keep bees in some remote cabin, while using computer for only things that make me happy.
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When I was in my 30s, I started seeing one really weird phenomenon. Really smart and talented people in #IT world just retired at very young age or changed to something completely different field, usually into something that is just mostly labor with minimal or zero connection to anything technological.
After watching how everything I had loved about the field has slowly been reduced to pointless crap that just endlessly stresses me out without giving any kind of sense of accomplishment, now at 45 I suddenly get the attraction of just jumping the ship and go keep bees in some remote cabin, while using computer for only things that make me happy.
@apz Same, same...
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When I was in my 30s, I started seeing one really weird phenomenon. Really smart and talented people in #IT world just retired at very young age or changed to something completely different field, usually into something that is just mostly labor with minimal or zero connection to anything technological.
After watching how everything I had loved about the field has slowly been reduced to pointless crap that just endlessly stresses me out without giving any kind of sense of accomplishment, now at 45 I suddenly get the attraction of just jumping the ship and go keep bees in some remote cabin, while using computer for only things that make me happy.
@apz I got into working with computers because I loved computers, and it made me hate computers
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@apz I got into working with computers because I loved computers, and it made me hate computers
@COMPU73E I've actually had two cases of this, with computer and pinball.
And in both cases I came out the other side realising I just hate the commercial side of it. I'm interested in technology and there's yet to be a computer or technical device that I'd consider stressful per se.
When I started with pinball in 2000, I was hired by an operator in 2001. I was over the moon by it, because I'd be doing what I love and even get paid for it, right?
Well no. Working for an arcade operator wasn't making things right. It was quite often making things to work at barely acceptable level, so they could be pushed out the door onto locations to make money.
At times I post pictures of horrible hacks I find in freshly acquired games. I now know how these come to be, when the problem is complex and the boss is cracking his whip about the machine going to location today. Sure, I can do quick hacks, but it's the polar opposite of the satisfaction of figuring things out. This is often compounded by outsiders giving crap about the forced hacks.
Around year or year and a half was enough of working at an arcade operator for me. I'm starting to wonder if 20 years of IT career has been enough too.
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@COMPU73E I've actually had two cases of this, with computer and pinball.
And in both cases I came out the other side realising I just hate the commercial side of it. I'm interested in technology and there's yet to be a computer or technical device that I'd consider stressful per se.
When I started with pinball in 2000, I was hired by an operator in 2001. I was over the moon by it, because I'd be doing what I love and even get paid for it, right?
Well no. Working for an arcade operator wasn't making things right. It was quite often making things to work at barely acceptable level, so they could be pushed out the door onto locations to make money.
At times I post pictures of horrible hacks I find in freshly acquired games. I now know how these come to be, when the problem is complex and the boss is cracking his whip about the machine going to location today. Sure, I can do quick hacks, but it's the polar opposite of the satisfaction of figuring things out. This is often compounded by outsiders giving crap about the forced hacks.
Around year or year and a half was enough of working at an arcade operator for me. I'm starting to wonder if 20 years of IT career has been enough too.
@apz yeah, I think it's working in the corporate world with (primarily) Microsoft tech that has done this to me, but I don't even really enjoy messing about with my Linux PC at home any more
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@apz yeah, I think it's working in the corporate world with (primarily) Microsoft tech that has done this to me, but I don't even really enjoy messing about with my Linux PC at home any more
@COMPU73E It's not that much better on the open source side of the fence. It's not really doing anything fun, just repetitive, high stress, more-for-less, with thinner margina and higher stakes. There's not even a memory of anything fun left.
I don't mind hosting practically every aspect of my online life with my homelab stuff, but even that is more of because someone else would sell me the same thing except with even less care put into it.
