The engineer, who posted anonymously on X under the username voxium for fear of reprisal from his employer, called his new role at an undisclosed company "soul-sucking."
What actually makes it soul sucking is if you still have a sense of duty or responsibility to deliver high quality code, because you will be knee deep in slop code without enough time to review it, or if you’re forced to review it. If you stop giving a shit, you can use that time to find another job or do research for your own project.
What actually makes it soul sucking is if you still have a sense of duty or responsibility to deliver high quality code, because you will be knee deep in slop code without enough time to review it, or if you’re forced to review it. If you stop giving a shit, you can use that time to find another job or do research for your own project.
To be fair, that’s about every job. If I’m not either having fun or doing something useful I check out and hate my life.
I hate my life by default, at least working can sometimes be a productive distraction.
You okay man?