This is much harder to take than the symptoms themselves, which can be managed. In a sense, you will grow up very quickly.
Yeah. It's made worse by the fact that technology's upper management are psychopaths here to exploit the cheap talent (and health issues, from their perspective, make you "bargain bin") and most of the low- and mid-level people are spineless weaklings who don't fight for themselves (because they think they'll be tech CEOs in 5 years, despite lacking social skills and savvy).
But, yeah, I'm only really happy in R&D for several reasons: hard problems, autonomy, and longer timeframes.
All software development should be like that. But we've sold out for a crappy lottery ticket that's rigged against us.
Well, perhaps not "all software development". If you're running a trading desk and have algos running during Hong Kong hours, you're going to need people who can handle drop-everything, short-term crises. I would say that all software development should be like that-- except for the few kinds that can't be, and those should be paid at $2+ million per year.
Yeah. It's made worse by the fact that technology's upper management are psychopaths here to exploit the cheap talent (and health issues, from their perspective, make you "bargain bin") and most of the low- and mid-level people are spineless weaklings who don't fight for themselves (because they think they'll be tech CEOs in 5 years, despite lacking social skills and savvy).
But, yeah, I'm only really happy in R&D for several reasons: hard problems, autonomy, and longer timeframes.
All software development should be like that. But we've sold out for a crappy lottery ticket that's rigged against us.
Well, perhaps not "all software development". If you're running a trading desk and have algos running during Hong Kong hours, you're going to need people who can handle drop-everything, short-term crises. I would say that all software development should be like that-- except for the few kinds that can't be, and those should be paid at $2+ million per year.