Post B2oPJGFGi6uCJDhhkO by sam@froth.zone
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(DIR) Post #B2m9WDxWXDBBOsdxNQ by sam@froth.zone
2026-01-29T11:30:00.801737Z
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I could not have picked a better time to have completely abandoned the tech (specifically software) industry
(DIR) Post #B2m9gWS4dMhleNqMZU by sun@shitposter.world
2026-01-29T11:31:54.906945Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@sam what are you doing now
(DIR) Post #B2m9y24CLMtAcp1d8C by colonelj@ryona.agency
2026-01-29T11:35:05.077435Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@sam :transheart:
(DIR) Post #B2mAd3Bv4F4TzBCCiu by bajax@baj.ax
2026-01-29T11:42:29.287448Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@sam what's happened to the industry?
(DIR) Post #B2mCZgnm3QF5aNQXZY by wertimer@clubcyberia.co
2026-01-29T12:04:15.932141Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@bajax @sam it SUCKS. I wanna leave too. Tho I'd like to know Sam's reasoning
(DIR) Post #B2mCperv0dnYDuypTk by bajax@baj.ax
2026-01-29T12:07:10.730791Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@wertimer @sam what's so bad about it?
(DIR) Post #B2mDKb2BJdeLJAX6lE by wertimer@clubcyberia.co
2026-01-29T12:12:44.733238Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@bajax @sam unhappy. For me, the work takes over my mind for no reward but money, relying on people in a large corp is impossible, middle and upper management fuck you around every quarter and then forget about it, any notion of progress is illusory, and the market is saturated with bullshit ideas and technology. If I genuinely cared about making more efficient algorithms or [redacted feature that's at least somewhat interesting], I might put up with it. Even then, your intellectual children will be mutated or post-birth aborted by management or the market (just the way she goes).So I'd rather try to find something that doesn't make me want to kill myself even if it makes me poor. Mentally, I'd be better off counting invasive beetles for room and board. Figuratively... unless :Flushed2:
(DIR) Post #B2mLld1ioZQqwLidBA by benis_redux@cawfee.club
2026-01-29T13:47:15.650296Z
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@sam I take it you've finally taken my advice to get a commercial driver's license
(DIR) Post #B2n4sWY3nNhkoPVV0i by zero@strelizia.net
2026-01-29T22:12:45.926099Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@sam @grok is this true
(DIR) Post #B2o5TnRM9IpD4e6W80 by sam@froth.zone
2026-01-30T09:54:11.969847Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@benis_redux No, I became a civil servant instead (fed arc)
(DIR) Post #B2o63moXxBzpYd72W0 by sam@froth.zone
2026-01-30T10:00:37.586301Z
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@wertimer @bajax also,1. There are few jobs anywhere especially in the software world for people without experience 2. Everyone and everything is all in on AI and it seems to be like a dot-com level of concentration3. There is no job security anymore. I talked to one of my uni classmates who works for Amazon and they've said absolutely no one has morale because layoffs are never ending (they laid off 16k more in the last week, they were not laid off)Plus everything @wertimer said about management of most places being stupids that don't actually know what they're doing ever (though that seems to be universal)
(DIR) Post #B2o6E68qwuvEOeWmNk by sam@froth.zone
2026-01-30T10:02:32.651949Z
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@sun I work for the government now lol doing stuff with intellectual property so it's tech adjacent but also should be a lot less prone to short term uncertainty
(DIR) Post #B2oCKFmAdrytjsEj9E by benis_redux@cawfee.club
2026-01-30T11:10:53.523266Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@sam downboat
(DIR) Post #B2oPJGFGi6uCJDhhkO by sam@froth.zone
2026-01-30T13:36:23.141618Z
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@zero There's a joke here about Grok producing nothing but child porn and basically any woman ever naked but I can't put the bit together