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With myself also at a crossroad with what I want to do for my career, the talk of careers in this manga has been pretty intriguing.

And in this chapter, Tsuka-sensei drops a bit of wisdom. You don't have to do something you like or are crazy passionate about. You just need to do something that you don't hate, that you don't find difficult to do. Something that isn't a chore or a grind to you.

And for me, the coding part of tech fits into that bucket. I wouldn't mind spending hours debugging some code. But the problem is that the hiring process is hellish (and straight up damaging to my mental health) and the work that companies want me to do nowadays is not the kind of stuff I want to do.

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Jan 23 at 10:53amWeb
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Implementing some AI agent isn't really that hard compared to debugging, but I just loathe it so much that I can't really bring myself to do it. (And if you do have an issue with the AI, it's not as easily solvable because it's not something that is logical.)

So sadly, tech as a whole is just too much of a grind and a pain for me now. Tech work has completely transformed into something else, that has nothing to do with the engineering, coding and debugging. No wonder I'm "bad" at this job.

Not to say that career advice from a manga is something you should firmly believe in (and the manga says as much), but even before reading this, I already knew I needed to leave tech. This just helps to clear things up in my head a bit.