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.
Queue Cue 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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
16 Comments
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 307d
My workplaces for the past 17 years, summarized:
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 307d
I have this variation:
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 307d
This is me, except for 4. For me, #4 is "be miserable while doing a half assed job"
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 306d
For 20 years.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 307d
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?
cosmicpancake@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 307d
Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d
I took up painting, bet it will take some time to master that skill!
Doesn't pay though...
then_three_more@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 307d
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.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d
That sounds like a cool role
then_three_more@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
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.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 307d
Im pretty sure everyone who is a consultant has ADHD and consults to avoid this very problem.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 306d
I tried consulting for a few years but had a really tough time with the networking part. It's like a constant job search!
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
It is! Only really messed up people are consultants. 😉
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 307d
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
20cello@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 307d
As soon as you think you mastered it
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 306d
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 307d
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.