I'm looking around for a career change. It sucks more if you have a family to provide for since SWE is low effort for high monetary gain compared to other things.
I've switched jobs a few times in the past years as a SWE/architect and even did consulting for many years. I can't seem to recapture the enjoyment I had at the beginning (back in the 2000s), it's kinda all the same now. I'm also tired of stand-ups, Groundhog Day "retros" and generally appearing to be interested. I think the whole cloud thing has taken the fun out of coding for me in the last twelve or so years.
Also, if JIRA was a face, I'd fucking punch it.
Thought of teaching maths or computing. I love that shit, but society doesn't value that as it pays so little.
Seriously thinking about becoming a paramedic, maybe a coroner/ME... time is running out though. Getting old.
Edit: Also maybe a govt. IT job. It's less, but maybe the benefits are enough to balance out. Would be cool to fix up some crumby govt. software.
What are you all doing that requires such fine grain selection of a terminal?
I spend a lot of time in a terminal and just use whatever’s there. Terminal.app or gnome-terminal. Before that it was xterm. Perhaps the only customization is modifier key on Mac as meta.
What’s this all about? Don’t most languages?