I've decided that I will soon be done with tech after 35 years. I find the tech industry exhausting and disappointing. It is really hasn't gotten any better than it was when I started and in some significant ways it is worse. The whole practice of software needs [citation needed] and [condemned by the board of health] notices slapped on it. Ignorance reigns and there is new ignorance every day lest anyone ever learn anything. Cliquishness, fetishism and cargo culting are rampant and that is not even commenting on the fringes like cryptocurrency. The scabrous larcenous fucks who want to take over the internet with "web3" might likely succeed because the investor class is filled with rapacious sociopaths and grifters who will happily ally themselves for another quick buck.
It is all shit and it is not fun any more.
Having spent several summers working manual labour and others spent working as a school janitor I certainly don't long for those jobs. I will probably spend my time on personal health and volunteering including tutoring. I will presumably continue to write software for my own enjoyment but I am indifferent about even participating in open source as it has become, too often, a cudgel used by one company or faction against another rather than a societal good.
It is all shit and it is not fun any more.
Having spent several summers working manual labour and others spent working as a school janitor I certainly don't long for those jobs. I will probably spend my time on personal health and volunteering including tutoring. I will presumably continue to write software for my own enjoyment but I am indifferent about even participating in open source as it has become, too often, a cudgel used by one company or faction against another rather than a societal good.