I have yet to meet someone in recent memory that is truly happy with their work, especially in technology.
This concerns me.
@kai @craigmaloney It's not just the boredom piece; it's a legit malaise that I'm seeing in developers, administrators, and the like.
@craigmaloney what do you think might be the causes?
@kai I think some of it is the bro-culture in a lot of places.
@craigmaloney I think it's soooooooo much bigger than that. I don't know any happy workers anywhere. So many hours of tedious, specialized, meaningless work. It's not good for people.
@kai Yeah, that's a huge factor. Creativity is not valued in a lot of work.
@craigmaloney I listened to the transcript of this earlier and I've been thinking a lot about it
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_lee_why_jobs_of_the_future_won_t_feel_like_work
@kai It's going to be an interesting problem, but I fear in our current climate we're not going to take the path that is leading to fulfillment. We're not ones to care what people labor under.
@craigmaloney @kai bros are unpleasant, but i suspect you could change the surface aesthetics up just about any which way and we'd still be in an industry that's fundamentally anti-human and anti-life.
@craigmaloney Yeah... :-/
@craigmaloney I am SO MUCH happier outside of the business world. You can't realize how insane it is while you're immersed in it. I'm seriously thinking that US-style employment is anti-life.
@mwlucas There's a conversation that I'd like to have with you at some point about starting down that path.
Being out of work for over a year is making me think harder about starting up my own thing and I'm scared as fuck to do it.
@craigmaloney at this point, what's the worst that could happen? Hit me up sometime.
@mwlucas Definitely. Email OK?
@craigmaloney sure, email's fine for specific questions. face to face is better for generalities.
Do you ever semco? I'll be there 12 november, talking on BSD. In your neck of the woods, IIRC. We could chat after if you do.
@mwlucas I haven't been to a SEMCO meeting yet. Might make it a first. It's at Altair, right?
@craigmaloney
I left that world. I miss many things, but I have no plans to go back to it.
Still have many friends active and they keep me updated, but it is usually full of complaints and hellish stories (tech changes, the challenges are always the same). The conversations tend to always include how lucky I am now.
I'm happy now that I'm retired!
I was a programmer for a small branch of a large company that was part of the Military Industrial Complex.
The "good ole boys" network inside the company was intense and the patronizing attitudes were what you might expect.
I was one of two female engineers out of about 25. The other left after a dispute and settlement involving discrimination. I left because I got to the point of literally being sick every day when I had to leave for work.
@craigmaloney any normal person is going to get bored obsessively doing the same thing over and over again which describes every job I've ever heard of