Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Im 50 soon.
I mean sure, I no longer have excitement for IT. Ive seen so many trends and ive seen us just spinning the wheels. We dont actually get anywhere. Things get more complex and it solves some problems and creates others.
When I was younger, I actually got excited about stuff in IT. So that has changed. But still, its possible to work and just have a ordinary job doing ordinary stuff. Dont need to get hired at Google. :)
Exactly the same for me. I already had leading roles in my last few jobs, but this year I switched to a job without any coding. I am just burnt out. I have seen too many languages, paradigms and frameworks over the years. I still write code and pick up new languages. But only for me. I can’t handle dealing with code every day anymore. I am working at a co-op now, so there’s no insane drive to make billionaires happy. And I really hope I can stay there until retirement.
I feel like this about Rust, I’m sure it’s absolutely great but I really just don’t care about it. If I ignore it long enough I’m hoping that either will move over to yet another language or AI will literally just write everything for me.
you got any more of those ordinary jobs? scratches neck
i feel this way about IT and im 23
Dude I’m 33 and have a network engineer/sysadmin role and I’ve caught myself saying “oh…this is it?” Many times now that I’m seasoned.
I wanna go back in time to when DOS was new and work my way up.
Hey, similar feelings from me in a lotta ways, especially regarding the “churn” we see where continuing tech evolution makes our expected output rise in almost precise equilibrium with the rise in quality of life tooling and general sophistication we get to “enjoy” (and I mean, sincerely, some stuff like IaC has made irritating tasks joyfully painless in comparison to the bad good ??? old days ).
BUT! Something maybe we can all get a little excited about - in some important ways (Linux ecosystem, federation trends, self-hosting capabilities and enthusiasm, urgent global need to diversify cloud reliances) - FOSS is in a strikingly beautiful place today. It’s never been more important, and it’s never had a stronger, more diverse, and arguably more passionate array of people working hard to make great shit for us all.
Cheers and take heart!
Most people are in their prime at like 35
look at my age
look at my life
Well fuck.
So, you’re a manual labourer with no qualifications or skills, and you’re starting to feel the effects of that?
Most people are qualified and starting to earn decent money by their thirties.
Manual labour requires a lot of skill and by 30+ you need to acquire it or you’ll destroy your body. There are jobs that require only a few hours of learning but they rarely are intensive, just extremely boring.
There are definitely manual labour jobs that require little to no skill, a lot of site labourer work is like that. Carrying wallboard, emptying bins, just generally carrying shit around.
What are you calling manual labor? Methinks you paint with a very small brush.
Rude
OP’s fat and/or has been sitting in a chair his whole life if he can’t hang at labor in his 30s. Fuck me, I’m 54, work my ass of at Lowe’s, after working IT for 20-years, can still hang. Barely.
I have seen people destroy their backs working as a soda merchandiser before their 40s. That can be a surprisingly brutal job with ridiculous demands.
Yeah right.
Fake and Ace
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Anon has destroyed their body digging for memes in the mines.
mtpender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ROCK AND STONE! oT
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
For Karl!
hakase@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So, Jacob Gellar?