It's not even the workload desuI was putting in 70hr weeks and skipping lunch before last week, working on a team with 3 code monkeys and 10 product managers.It's dealing with fake people that are nice to you but are stabbing you in the back. Also having to acquiesce to retarded managers because they have better relations with their bosses. It's all kick down and kiss up, and the second you call them out on it the mask drops.I missed one timeline by 45minutes (out of 300 projects I delivered on time) and I had to sit through an hour worth of meeting about meeting timelinesmeanwhile the people lecturing have underestimated how long something I'm working on takes. When I push back >oy vey why does it take 20+hrs (an underestimate) to convert a Django application to Node>why not just use a translator like I did when translating English to Spanish>oy vey I gave you enough time to set it up (2hrs), why do you need to build an application on a separate server (the vendor's solution broke down beyond 10k records and they handed a dataset of 30 million entries). >oy vey you're 5 minutes late on something I gotta escalate this to your lead and the VP>oy vey you did everything on time for a year you better not be late again, just set a bigger bufferI thought they'd appreciate the fact that we're running on a skeleton crew keeping these midwit AI-buzzword spouting/business degree having managers employed. Every time they complain about how hard they're working. How the hell can they be overworked when their job is to just forward our emails to clients? They even have time to chat about reality tv shows all day.I just wanted to get my work done but I also need to deal with office politics bullshit.
yup. i was the techfag.trying to get a sales job now and join the side that's going to hell.i hope i get that job, sorry anon.
Also I'm applying to other jobs but most of my work experience is with niche tech.
>>84429889person doing the job > the job
>>84429902Thanks anon. I'm trying to get a job in the public sector. I've been doing agency work for almost 10 years.
>>84429923Do you know anything about machine learning/AI stuff?
Worst part for me is the amount of time wasted. Some people talk about wanting to feel productive in life and that's why they like working, I'm the opposite. I don't want to feel productive, I want to be productive. Every second spent at work and all the accumulated load and stress is impacting something that could actually be important.Medical anything is a huge waste of time, money, and resources. But there's so much money moving so fast it's easier to skim I guess. The flow of money is like a hydroelectric dam generating more money and power. The skim on something like grocery stores, gas stations, engineering firms, probably lower. Administrative costs are enormous because America has a social medicine system, insurance, and lawsuits. Lots of regulatory capture, backroom deals and kickbacks, fraud, embezzling. It's a very dishonest system. It hurts to think of all the hours wasted on healthcare when it could have gone towards anything else. All the aides, therapists, nurses, doctors, technicians, and specialists aren't helping anyone besides the most evil people in the country to get even more power and money. All those fundraising events or community outreach programs are done 100% to position themselves to hold more power or make more money down the line.
>>84429889I'm a janitor of a dead facility that has yet to be declared a failed project and the majority of staff is a henhouse.I deal with this all the time.I've trained since Retail to just handle it.I got a real career on the horizon through a union to help me win, if only to win stability for my life.It is wagecucking still, but with a much prettier paycheck. I'm gonna get married next year, build up some savings for a kid in 5 years, put in some shit for a ROTH IRA to stack with the pension, shit's kino.Only bad thing is dealing with tradies that are gruffer than the regular crowd, but at the end of the day, we're here because we got families, and the customers got families too. Families that need air conditioning, specifically.
>>84430003Sure, but not to the level of someone that can work as an engineer. I took Andrew Ng's machine learning course back in 2017 (I found it pretty easy and finished the 3 month course in a few weeks). I then built a few applications like sentiment classifiers on text (built a web chatbot with it). Of course it's not the generative chatbots we're seeing today with LLMs. I assumed at the time having some things like that on my portfolio would get me somewhere. Didn't get any interviews except for really shitty jobs. I have a quantitative degree (only a BSc) that isn't CS, with no relevant experience. My prospects of landing a Data Scientist / ML engineer position are very low.
