I’m struggling to find any meaning to my work anymore.
I’ve seen so many good ideas come and go on the whims of a carousel of executives and directors over the last decade.
it’s difficult for me to build anything new because I know for a fact, as I have witnessed, the product I would pour my heart into would be sunset within a year or two.
I want to build something that will last decades or more, but those days of software production are long over.
The trick is to remember WHY you work, so that when that pet project goes down in flames you can just sit back assured in the fact that yes, I was paid that entire time.
You can still take pride in your work and enjoy the creativity of it. I just mean when things go that way that you can rest assured that it wasn’t time wasted. You learned something, you got paid.
I do know the feeling, I bust my balls recently pulling an app from dev hell to get it out and working and the client from that country seems to be moving away from us, and it sucks. But I learned loads about app development and that framework specifically. I learned dev ops, pipelines, the weirdness of app development compared to backend dev.
Can’t take it too personally. I career switched mid 30s so I can just cast my mind back to the horrors of shit pay and horrible conditions so that helps keep me appreciating my job.
I’m struggling to find any meaning to my work anymore.
I’ve seen so many good ideas come and go on the whims of a carousel of executives and directors over the last decade.
it’s difficult for me to build anything new because I know for a fact, as I have witnessed, the product I would pour my heart into would be sunset within a year or two.
I want to build something that will last decades or more, but those days of software production are long over.
The trick is to remember WHY you work, so that when that pet project goes down in flames you can just sit back assured in the fact that yes, I was paid that entire time.
I work because I genuinely enjoyed developing new products. the pay was only second to my happiness in the product.
now the products are thrown away as easily as the wrapper on a candy bar.
why do I work now? so I don’t lose my home. to provide for my family. to support my kids futures. I could do that with any job though…
You can still take pride in your work and enjoy the creativity of it. I just mean when things go that way that you can rest assured that it wasn’t time wasted. You learned something, you got paid.
I do know the feeling, I bust my balls recently pulling an app from dev hell to get it out and working and the client from that country seems to be moving away from us, and it sucks. But I learned loads about app development and that framework specifically. I learned dev ops, pipelines, the weirdness of app development compared to backend dev.
Can’t take it too personally. I career switched mid 30s so I can just cast my mind back to the horrors of shit pay and horrible conditions so that helps keep me appreciating my job.
Producing work that you know is DOA is incredibly demoralizing.