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my boss: not u though
I’m struggling to find any meaning to my work anymore.
I’ve seen so many good ideas come and go on the whims of a carousel of executives and directors over the last decade.
it’s difficult for me to build anything new because I know for a fact, as I have witnessed, the product I would pour my heart into would be sunset within a year or two.
I want to build something that will last decades or more, but those days of software production are long over.
The trick is to remember WHY you work, so that when that pet project goes down in flames you can just sit back assured in the fact that yes, I was paid that entire time.
I work because I genuinely enjoyed developing new products. the pay was only second to my happiness in the product.
now the products are thrown away as easily as the wrapper on a candy bar.
why do I work now? so I don’t lose my home. to provide for my family. to support my kids futures. I could do that with any job though…
You can still take pride in your work and enjoy the creativity of it. I just mean when things go that way that you can rest assured that it wasn’t time wasted. You learned something, you got paid.
I do know the feeling, I bust my balls recently pulling an app from dev hell to get it out and working and the client from that country seems to be moving away from us, and it sucks. But I learned loads about app development and that framework specifically. I learned dev ops, pipelines, the weirdness of app development compared to backend dev.
Can’t take it too personally. I career switched mid 30s so I can just cast my mind back to the horrors of shit pay and horrible conditions so that helps keep me appreciating my job.
Producing work that you know is DOA is incredibly demoralizing.
Most people around me, (in a social context, not work context) seem to be just sticking their heads in the sand for productivity reasons so they can focus on life stuff, and are shocked when we finally have a conversation where I mention something topically thats going on in politics. Then follow the shock up with telling me following that stuff too much is bad for your health and advise me to take breaks. Lol. Yup good times.
So yeah, most people around me have no idea the latest horrible stuff going on and won’t know about it until someone else tells them. Thats part of the reason we’re not seeing the level of protesting needed to start fighting this stuff. (Yes I know protesting by itself won’t stop this, but the protesting usually leads to over reaction and too much violence from the authoritarians, helping to tip more people on the fence, in the protests’ favor)
The step that is conveniently forgotten (because most of the country didn’t learn about it) between protest and violence is civil disobedience.
It’s effective, and it’s been happening. It works particularly well against fascists because it turns their MO against them. Fascists like to waste time arguing then rapidly overwhelm with policy. When that policy is delayed and unenforceable they absolutely go bonkers and damage their system further.
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
It’s not fine because it’s actively destroying my livelihood
