Yea, the existential dread is real. I don’t understand all the people who are like, “just rest and vest, do side projects, etc” I can’t do that, it makes me feel like a worthless human faking my way through life. Extrapolating on this thread and the industry in general, really just makes me think this is a big fucking waste of time, and makes my skin crawl working with others who don’t seem to think this is a problem. Like, we didn’t evolve this far to fucking toil around on zoom calls and shittily written emails from passive aggressive narcissists. Anyways, uhhh yea — thanks for mentioning the mental health bit, I clearly have some work to do and/or new jobs to look for.
I'm on the other side, where the grass is greener. Always worked at small companies and early stage startups. Always putting out fires, sometimes worked till the middle of the night. Sometimes pushed to production without code reviews. Stress always at an all time high. Never made great money.
Someone please explain to me why I should not dream of working at BigCo where code reviews take a week. A remote job like OP's is a literal dream to me. No stress? above market average compensation? As long as I can work from home I'll know how to keep myself busy.
