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I hate my job and want to switch rant
ChadTower:
My main issue is that what I do is so freakin' abstract. I can't even explain it to some software engineers, nevermind people who aren't in this field. I never actually put my hands on anything - I'm either designing process, or implementing software lifecycle tools, or writing automation tying the two aforementioned pieces together. I rarely see the apps I write all of this for - hell it would be illegal for me to be poking around some of them because the data is confidential. The only way I have ever come up with of explaining to a layman what I do is that I write tools that software developers use. I need to be able to hold something in my hand, work it around, and eventually show someone and say "I made/designed/fixed that". There is pretty much zero satisfaction for me in what I do now. I'm really good at it, but as the years go by, I find myself caring less and less and it is becoming more difficult to keep the quality level as high as possible. :banghead:
CCM:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2008, 09:48:02 am ---
I need to be able to hold something in my hand, work it around,
There is pretty much zero satisfaction for me in what I do now.
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So, what exactly do you do for a living... :laugh2:
shardian:
--- Quote from: CCM on February 12, 2008, 10:17:07 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2008, 09:48:02 am ---
I need to be able to hold something in my hand, work it around,
There is pretty much zero satisfaction for me in what I do now.
--- End quote ---
So, what exactly do you do for a living... :laugh2:
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Heh, I needed that! :laugh2: :cheers:
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: CCM on February 12, 2008, 10:17:07 am ---So, what exactly do you do for a living... :laugh2:
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;D
When I was a kid my grandfather used to drive me around on sundays and show things he had built. We'd drive past a building and he'd say "built that one, took about 7 months, two crews, we had trouble getting the bedrock cleared enough to put in a subbasement." I always really enjoyed that. I have nothing like that to show my kids. Maybe someday I can tell them "You know how your friend Jimmy got busted for trying to buy Sudafed at 5 different pharmacies last week? Daddy worked on the app that caught him."
Yay. :lame:
lokki:
Hi,
Work sucks, you may think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but eventually it will still suck.
the hard part is that you have realize that your job is not who you are, but what you do in order be able to do the things you want to do.
My suggestion would be to find a hobby (Build and Arcade Machine or something :) ) , find something outside of work that will make it worth it to put up with the crap. Also make sure you do your job (8hrs a day and leave the work behind when you go home and spend time with your familiy)
I'm in the same boat as you, work sucks, and it was hard to get up in the mornings to go to the office. And I cannot afford to take the huge pay hit (about 50%) to get a different job. But things do get easier once you find something more important than work
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