Matthew LyonNever trust anyone working in tech who wouldn’t rather be doing something else instead.
Marijke Luttekes@mattly It’s not funny because it is true. 🥲
Loren@mattly I like my job but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that I'd like farming more.
Jan Lehnardt 
@mattly same rule as for holding an office: only let people in who really don’t wanna.
Coach Pāṇini ®
Khyrie@mattly I stood outside in the sun this morning and wondered why I had to look at a computer all day instead of playing with my dogs in the lovely weather
The Misophonic Spree
0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)@mattly does it count if I wanna work in tech but I want the industry torn down and built for people into something unrecognizable today?
Jim Spath@mattly Cue the Python Lumberjack song...
Hawaii Kai Auntie@mattly
Never trust anyone who actually wants to work in tech. It's a grind.
Never trust anyone who actually wants to work in tech. It's a grind.
Deane Barker@mattly I heard a joke the other day --
Q: What's the best way to start a woodworking business?
A: First, spend 15 years in tech...
sentientsponge@mattly I'd like to think somewhere, somehow, someone has found a positive fulfilling career here, but I haven't encountered them.
David H. McCoy30+ years writing software. I love doing it.
fedithom
clarebee@mattly The sizeable overlap of a 'working in tech' + 'want to be living off-grid/retrain as a carpenter/be the custodian of a remote island' Venn diagram.
Duncan Blues@mattly I think more than half of the people in IT would probably rather do something else instead but are either too indecisive, have too much self doubt to try something else or simply need the job to pay the bills.
Most of them probably *still* love IT, but just not for a living.
Most of them probably *still* love IT, but just not for a living.
dirtside@mattly this sounds profound but is actually sociopathic
GayDeceiver
australopithecus@mattly
To be completely fair, that's really just capitalism in general, not tech specifically. Tech is simply the current favorite fuck-pillow of capitalists.
To be completely fair, that's really just capitalism in general, not tech specifically. Tech is simply the current favorite fuck-pillow of capitalists.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@mattly
Two contiguous circles
Two contiguous circles
Koen de Jonge - SynQ@mattly true yet painful.
So, don’t trust me!
I would rather be doing something else, but…
… since tech is what I know and can do I would rather not.
`Da Elf@mattly LITERALLY Laughed out Loud. You scared half a city block and an entire cafe.
Workshopshed@mattly was just discussing early retirement....
@Workshopshed @mattly
I think a lot about this. How much do you think you need to have saved for you personally to feel you can retire? I try to come up with a number for myself, but I wonder how other people reason this out.
I think a lot about this. How much do you think you need to have saved for you personally to feel you can retire? I try to come up with a number for myself, but I wonder how other people reason this out.
@MisophonicSpree @mattly I think it depends on your lifestyle plans following retirement. I plugged some numbers into a "annuity" calculator and I can't see how anyone would live on that...
@MisophonicSpree @mattly I'm expecting a "soft retirement" where I do some light work to bring in a bit of money each month without needing to be in work everyday. Perhaps writing or consulting?
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@mattly woodworking. It's always woodworking.
Maxe 🏳️🌈 
@mattly at so many points this year I wanted to destroy my laptop and move off-grid
Eric Jonathan Martin@mattly Like the guy who left Microsoft and started his own goose farm. Everyone has a bigger dream that involves as close to zero computers as possible.
Nicole ParsonsI'm always amazed by the number of early-career coders that want to make "enough f.u. money" and retire to a hobby farm in the middle of nowhere as soon as they can.
Each year of "employee loyalty" is rewarded with losses in real earnings.
If you get a 2% pay raise but the rate of inflation is 8% per year, you do the math -- you're losing 6% in purchasing power for each year you stay.
If you're a top performer, many corporations will "reward" that employee with more work, but no raises or promotions, and avoid having to manage workloads during a mass layoff.
kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️🌈@mattly
Feeling this rn.
Feeling this rn.
David W. Jones@mattly
Never trust someone working in tech that doesn't want to do anything else instead. They'll be suffering from OCD and firmly convinced that "Everyone must do things exactly the way *I* do them because I'm the only one doing it *the right way*."
Never trust someone working in tech that doesn't want to do anything else instead. They'll be suffering from OCD and firmly convinced that "Everyone must do things exactly the way *I* do them because I'm the only one doing it *the right way*."
Seth Galitzer@mattly Hard agree.
Zak 💫@mattly I swear, I'm the one true tech-enjoyer around this place LOL
Nah, joking aside; it is funny how often I can go from hyped up to work on something to instantly wanting to just lie down and exist because tech. is. inFURIATING!!
Eva@mattly @prettygood 10,000%
CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂@mattly I'm feeling called out, because I would rather be doing tech than working in it ...
mav 
14mission@mattly On my table right now. Nobody will doubt I'm in tech, and hopefully this is proof of trustworthiness.
Paul NoMore@mattly I feel attacked lol