Oh I made it, I make more than a lot of my peers in highschool, not all of them, but I make a good wage. But I fucking hate the dev industry man. I was unemployed for 3 months and I got so much done. Agile methodology sucks the soul out of me, I don’t have anything left for my personal projects. It’s micromanagement incarnate. Oh you had two bad dev cycles in a row? Guess it’s time for a PIP. Oh you had to step away for an errand a few times this dev cycle? Let’s not make it a habit, even though all your work is done. Oh you have mutiple 2 hour meetings to attend and we still label you as having full capacity meaning you have to figure out how to do 8 days of dev work in almost half that time. I’m so fucking tired of it.
Bro… As someone who felt this and is happier making less… Consider state govt tech roles.
You’ll have more relevant experience than your peers, there’s no ‘cycle’ to speak of…
Not even my team, got quoted like 200K on a Drupal upgrade.
I was like “guys I have upgraded about 400 Drupal sites exactly like this it takes 3 hours max.”
Hero.
That team keeps asking me questions and my boss is protective of it. “Email him and schedule time, stop wasting my teams time.” Essentially letting me fuck off.
Yeah I make less. But I have enough time to literally take on anything. Started self hosting, exercising, building a small business…
Yeah I actually have friends who work for my city, I told them to let me know if positions open up, but the other issue is that city jobs are so good that no one leaves lol. I’m looking to switch to sys admin work because I have a background in that, I’m hoping to get my base level cert in that this year.
It’s also full of boot lickers. Had people on my team that were like “oh I’ll just work this weekend to make the deadline” and I’m like why. They made the deadline even though we told them it was too aggressive. You don’t get paid more for hitting it or for putting more hours in. Stop enabling them and devaluing labor.
Oh I made it, I make more than a lot of my peers in highschool, not all of them, but I make a good wage. But I fucking hate the dev industry man. I was unemployed for 3 months and I got so much done. Agile methodology sucks the soul out of me, I don’t have anything left for my personal projects. It’s micromanagement incarnate. Oh you had two bad dev cycles in a row? Guess it’s time for a PIP. Oh you had to step away for an errand a few times this dev cycle? Let’s not make it a habit, even though all your work is done. Oh you have mutiple 2 hour meetings to attend and we still label you as having full capacity meaning you have to figure out how to do 8 days of dev work in almost half that time. I’m so fucking tired of it.
Bro… As someone who felt this and is happier making less… Consider state govt tech roles.
You’ll have more relevant experience than your peers, there’s no ‘cycle’ to speak of…
Not even my team, got quoted like 200K on a Drupal upgrade.
I was like “guys I have upgraded about 400 Drupal sites exactly like this it takes 3 hours max.”
Hero.
That team keeps asking me questions and my boss is protective of it. “Email him and schedule time, stop wasting my teams time.” Essentially letting me fuck off.
Yeah I make less. But I have enough time to literally take on anything. Started self hosting, exercising, building a small business…
Dev industry blows so hard.
Yeah I actually have friends who work for my city, I told them to let me know if positions open up, but the other issue is that city jobs are so good that no one leaves lol. I’m looking to switch to sys admin work because I have a background in that, I’m hoping to get my base level cert in that this year.
It’s also full of boot lickers. Had people on my team that were like “oh I’ll just work this weekend to make the deadline” and I’m like why. They made the deadline even though we told them it was too aggressive. You don’t get paid more for hitting it or for putting more hours in. Stop enabling them and devaluing labor.