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I resonate so much with a good chunk of that. I legit left my job because I couldn't take it anymore. My job while different went from negotiating multi-million dollar contracts, and securing pricing agreements with manufacturers to essentially being a spreadsheet jockey after a re-org. They wanted all the interesting parts of my job done by commodity management and reduced my role to something a fucking monkey could do, but asking for 47 different reports that essentially all had the same data just slightly different for dickheads 1,2, and 3 in the C-Suite, and overloading us with so much of it that it took 80 hours a week to complete. It was a fucking nightmare.
What did you go to? Still in tech or did you go down the pipeline to gardening or become a cryptid in the local forest that scares people?
I've been taking a sabbatical essentially. Living off savings that was supposed to be for a down payment on a house (lol). Got to do a lot of traveling with the kids and I've been looking for a similar role elsewhere but haven't secured anything yet. Thankfully, my wife still makes good money and we're doing OK financially, but I'm not thrilled about my prospects in my field. It's hard to be optimistic in a fascist AI hellscape.
Real.
Glad you have the ability to take that time with family, that is awesome!
Yeah, it really is rough right now. Fascist AI hellscape is accurate.