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.
I ignored Rust for a long time, but just recently I finally felt like giving it a try. I am rewriting a small project I built in Go in Rust, just to learn about it. If I don’t feel like working on it for a few weeks, so be it.
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 badgood ??? 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.
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. :)
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.
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.
I ignored Rust for a long time, but just recently I finally felt like giving it a try. I am rewriting a small project I built in Go in Rust, just to learn about it. If I don’t feel like working on it for a few weeks, so be it.
you got any more of those ordinary jobs? scratches neck
i feel this way about IT and im 23
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
badgood??? 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!