My workplaces for the past 17 years, summarized:
- Year: Learn the job.
- Year: Get really good at it.
- Year: Get bored with it.
- Year: Get fed up and quit.
I have this variation:
- Get hired. Enjoy awesome coworkers and decent perks.
- Wait, this is a fintech company.
- Why did I go with a fintech company again? I hate fintech!
- Fuck it, I’m not quitting after a single year; I’m not gonna nuke my vacation planning two years in a row.
QueueCue endless scrum meetings about badly defined PBIs referencing ancient versions of a poorly defined domain model.
I’ve never seen a sector of IT less organized, more averse to basic best practices, and more fixated on procedural boilerplate than fintech. It’s like ADHD poison and my relationship with it can be summed up with these lines from the Muppet Show theme:
Why do we always come here? I guess we’ll never know.
It’s like some kind of torture to have to watch this show.This is me, except for 4. For me, #4 is “be miserable while doing a half assed job”
For 20 years.
Yeah. Mine too. It always goes down this path, and after 20 years of doing it, i actually decided to stop working and see if I can cut my costs a lot and live off stocks and savings.
Its also the feeling that i want to decide what I do every day, even if that just is doing nothing. Why cant i do nothing if I want to?
Im pretty sure everyone who is a consultant has ADHD and consults to avoid this very problem.
I tried consulting for a few years but had a really tough time with the networking part. It’s like a constant job search!
It is! Only really messed up people are consultants. 😉
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I took up painting, bet it will take some time to master that skill!
Doesn’t pay though…
In my team I’m cover. I dont have my own tasks, I have to learn enough of everyone else’s to be able to do them if they’re on holiday or sick. It has massively increased the ‘mastering’ time.
That sounds like a cool role
I enjoy it, it has forced me to get good at making notes though (and pc based rather than in a book so I can search them) otherwise I’ll come back to try and do something I’ve not done in 6 months and not have a fucking clue where to even start.
There’s actually nothing wrong with this. When you work, you should ideally get paid in skills as well as money. When you’re really good at it, if you’ve maxxed out your skills, you’re not getting ‘paid’ anymore, so it’s time to move on and get paid in training somewhere else.
Okay I figured a fix that more or less work for me. I work in a service company. Other companies need help on a project for a few months. I get sent there, help get the project done and then I am sent to a new project
As soon as you think you mastered it
I thought i mastered my job 5 years in. Then I learned there is no mastering it only surviving it. Every day is chaos! I just didn’t know cause senior staff took care of it before.
