WFH and the general state of tech burned me (and continues to burn me) out big time.
I am extremely over Zoom meetings multiple times per day, every day, and what-feels-like-constant Slack interruptions. I usually love meetings, too!
Tech consulting is what I love doing, but all of the small consultancies are getting hoovered up by the big 4 or WITCH firms, and all of the big firms make you wear business casual and have strong money/sports/golf cultures, which sucks ass.
Going back to engineering and spending all day pairing on Zoom and dealing with petty politics isn't the way either.
Work just isn't exciting anymore; the last four years have felt like different takes of the same job (despite me changing jobs a few times! ). But going back to the office in a world where half of the folks there don't want to be there isn't fun either.
Also, all of the energy in tech is going towards AI, which I couldn't give less of a shit about. Startups are hella exploitative, but big companies prevent you from getting anything done.
Yeahhh; I feel this. I'm in the office 4-5 days a week again; and the rare days where most of my day ends up being in-office only interactions are great. The quick catchups in the hallway; not either forced catchups that always happen at the wrong time for someone, or never catching up. Socializing while going out for lunch; not doing lunch alone, and then having to make time for socializing when I need to be working. Those days are waay better than zoom meeting hell days OR WFH on no-meeting days. Commuting is new to me since Covid and that sucks but those days remind me what work could be like so I put up with it. :/
I am extremely over Zoom meetings multiple times per day, every day, and what-feels-like-constant Slack interruptions. I usually love meetings, too!
Tech consulting is what I love doing, but all of the small consultancies are getting hoovered up by the big 4 or WITCH firms, and all of the big firms make you wear business casual and have strong money/sports/golf cultures, which sucks ass.
Going back to engineering and spending all day pairing on Zoom and dealing with petty politics isn't the way either.
Work just isn't exciting anymore; the last four years have felt like different takes of the same job (despite me changing jobs a few times! ). But going back to the office in a world where half of the folks there don't want to be there isn't fun either.
Also, all of the energy in tech is going towards AI, which I couldn't give less of a shit about. Startups are hella exploitative, but big companies prevent you from getting anything done.
I don't know.