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 Three panels from the Matrix. 1. Morpheus is holding out his hands, each with a pill in it. The red pill is marked "a career you love." The blue pill is "a career that absolutely destroys your mental health.” 2. Neo, looking thoughtful, is identified as an IT worker. 3. Morpheus, looking confused, asks: "Did you just take both pills?”  @Cassandra @ErisCaffee  @bornach @anarchiv @Cassandra @ErisCaffee let me tell you about working in IT at a university... @ErisCaffee I wish. Somehow my career involved taking the blue pill 2-3 times until its effects started to dull.   @ErisCaffee i worked in IT for 5 years as #linux admin and i really loved it! the small team was responsible for hundreds of servers and i often had to work nights when i was on standby. the work was very stressful due to staff shortages and it didn't get better as more and more colleagues quit. i have been unable to work for the last 5 years due to #burnout and #depression and despite therapy and psychiatric treatments, things are getting better very slowly.  @davidak @ErisCaffee Burnout oh such a lovely feeling which comes around every couple of years, because of exactly the above mentioned and additional reasons. I still kind of manage somehow to do the keysmashing business of the desperate IT worker. The feeling of just quitting and leaving behind systems which collapses under its own weight is still something which stops me doing that. And the general lack of vision for what is supposed to come after my work. Capitalism sucks. People suck. @ErisCaffee @davidak Running from savings, well that's an option. If someone is privileged enough that can be done for months and years. The somewhat better european needs to regularly visit his labor office and get depressed by that institution. I despise that stuff, one reason I don't do it. Going into the game industry is not the best idea if it comes to burnout. The work conditions there are especially toxic. Everybody get's more done, when the brakes are not constantly on. My plan is to try and avoid working for a big studio. Ideally I'd like to be an independent developer, either making small games of my own or doing freelance work for others. Basically, I want to try and be my own boss for a change. I know that means lean times, but I don't care. Nothing could be worse than what I had, which was severly impacting my health. If I can do something that I actuallly find interesting and creative, then I can put up with long hours and lower pay. @ErisCaffee Oh that idea I have too since a long time Independence as my own boss. Game Dev was also a thing which I would like to do, but sadly I belonged to those wo were more fascinated with coding an engine than bringing acceptable ideas to the table. Founding a worker collective sounds also like a nice idea, but because of how solidarity is just a word I don't thing I would find the people with whom that would work. It can get a bit confusing at times when you play around with new technology and then try to implement a few weeks later at work 😅 . @davidak @ErisCaffee I feel you. But despite the fact that the work is good, you describe a gruesome place to work. Being sysadmin is not an easy job and having to pull nightshifts a lot and losing more and more colleagues means that there has been serious mismanagement. Besides system administration, I do human resources. It’s a classical case. Get better soon. :) @ErisCaffee I feel this so hard. 10 years of looking after kids, and all I can think is "I don't want to go back into IT" |
@ErisCaffee @briankrebs Get back to relaxing, Mr. Krebs 🙂