>crosspost from /g/>started career as business analyst>company goes Agile, accidentally become Scrum Master while still doing requirements/tickets> somehow make ~$80k doing this>do it for a few years, eventually clear $100k>get bored as fuck> company pays for most of a part-time master’s in UX because design seems interesting and close to what I already do>manage to move onto a UX project>holy shit I actually like my job>spend about a year doing usability research/design and actually influencing what gets built>UX market proceeds to implode>design work dries up, most people get cut or replaced by AI>survive by crawling back into Agile/project management>apparently companies are still willing to pay six figures for me to ask engineers if their Jira tickets are updated>start interviewing because fuck it>design applications go nowhere>meanwhile company interviews me for senior Scrum/PM-ish role>they offer ~$170k>job would be remote, stable, and a significant career/pay bump>also pretty much confirms I’m abandoning UX as a career and becoming a project/program management guytake the money or keep trying to get back into the one job I actually enjoyed?what do
do it, UX is dead and it ain't coming back
