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Dare ObasanjoAlmost 5 years at the same company and it feels exactly like this.
Steve Bennett@carnage4life I’m about to enter year 5 at my current gig. Can confirm it sometimes hits a bit sooner. 😬
jorgeit's a fake
after 5 year as dev you don't look as the first day
after 5 year as dev you don't look as the first day
D.EJE.D@carnage4life it also kickstarts an existential questioning episode "a-la-Sartre's-Nausea" where you ask yourself: "what is the meaning of doing all of this at all?" And question the empty motivation and self-fulfilling culture companies push onto the employees only so they can justify working there with the sole purpose of enriching the top brass without questioning this yourself
Enema CowboyFrame 3 is a consequence of Frame 2.
John Francis@carnage4life after 20y "management, the public, govt, and markets have no idea what they're doing"
PassengerThis is the truest thing ever written. I believed in capitalism until I started working. A career of "someone senior made decision X, so now we need to build the infrastructure to enable it, never mind that it's unworkable" turned me into an anarchist.
Michael Knepprath@carnage4life It’s literally my 5 year anniversary next week… yup 🤣
J.P. Stewart@carnage4life after 20 years, I’m realizing they’re all true, all the time. :)
Erik Ableson@carnage4life @codinghorror another little known example of the Stockholm syndrome...
Cegorach@carnage4life great! I'm ahead of the curve!
But then after 1.5 decades in IT - i'm more like "nobody has any clue ever"
@energiepirat@carnage4life That's for Sure.
Adi 🐾 (he/him)@carnage4life must be their first job. Because after a few jobs, this changes to "no one has any idea what they're doing"
Nina Felwitch 
@carnage4life I'm entering year 7 at this company and yep, this is accurate.
🅱🅻🆄🅴🅱️I have always thought I would do best as someone who can freely go around a company interviewing workers and performing their jobs for a few weeks at a time to discover structural issues and propose solutions.
I wrote a manual (kind of did a work podcast inside the manual too now that I think about it.) for one of my jobs and it made me think deeply about what a company really needs to succeed. How to construct on-ramps to higher skill jobs in the company that ensure the people coming in know what they are doing. Ways to structure work to avoid creating unlearnable skills that create a deficiency down the line. Ways to identify when a lack of authority or communication is causing significant extra work.
A focus on the untangibles. Money isn't everything. Sometimes you have to see the currencies that are not explicit.
I wish I could find work like that, but it's not so simple... Things like indeed and linkedin don't let you approach a company and tell them you think you can add value. It just doesn't work like that. And even if it did, there are so many fakes out there that it's hard to market oneself as real. It feels like the transition from social selection for work to that of filling out forms and checking boxes has been a grand failure in my opinion.
ferricoxide@carnage4life
It's even better when you work in consulting. You get the joy of this not only of your own company but for every organization you provide services to.
It's even better when you work in consulting. You get the joy of this not only of your own company but for every organization you provide services to.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@carnage4life Wait until you've been there 13 years.