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Of course company interests come first for the company, can't blame them for that. After working 3y on a project I am now stuck with it. I pushed for variation in my duties and to help teams that I know could use my expertise, but no one gives a sh**. Got a total bore-out due to the unmotivating environment (mgmt sets bad example too). I can literally work at 10% capacity and use the other 90% for anything I want, but soon as my home renovations are done I'm getting out of there. They don't care, I don't care
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@jestdotty weirdette
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I've gone the "just accept it" route, problem is that it then becomes the comfort zone and as @webketje said, you'll either start burning/boarding out or "give up". I'd say take 3 months to spruce up your skills on your interest topic enough that you can go to a new employer and say that is what you work on.
And will second @retoor. The best time to find a new job is while you have one -
@BordedDev My bloodshot eyes say hi. Thanks for the information.
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@CaptainRant Try some eye drops ;P
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@BordedDev Sleep helped!
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@CaptainRant Yeah it definitely does, keeps the demons at bay as well, no need for holy water ;P
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@BordedDev This reminds me of the movie My dinner with André, where he says that people talk in roundabout ways instead of directly and this is adding to their asleep status.
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@CaptainRant Yeah, though I was trying to make a joke about sleep paralysis demons ;P
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@BordedDev Blimey Demons Strike Madness
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@CaptainRant Sounds like something from Elden Ring
The aCalendar app let's you choose vibration pattern, it's one of the better settings I've seen.
I know that feeling. Poor you :(
This is a view from a rooftop in NYC that I sometimes get the pleasure to work from. I really like the view an...
Okay, suppose the following: You are hired at a company as a Software Developer and Computer Science is something you want to evolve in, and you chose a branch to deepen your expertise in.
A few years pass and it's always been company interests first. A few colleagues suffer the same but they don't stay long; they see that they are being duped, their passions and goals not respected and the company puts itself and its interests in the first place, and they quickly leave the company.
You decide that after these years of putting the company first, it's time to put yourself first. Yet, the company, with a 'friendly' nudge, hints strongly that it's company interests (i.e. money) first, and you find yourself getting pushed away farther and farther from your passions you wanted to deepen into, now getting assigned to polar opposite roles (e.g. SysAdmin).
What would you do in this case? I'd logically think: keep evolving on your personal time, use the years of experience and the exposure to tech and meanwhile plan to get out asap.
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