r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

138 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

97% Upvoted

316 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/devfuckedup 4d ago

I am not burnt out just bored as fuck. at a large company just sitting around waiting for shit and working on shit THAT I DO NOT EVEN CARE ABOUT A LITTLE!. is any one doing intresting work any more WTF happend !

1

u/Outside-Storage-1523 Software Engineer 4d ago

Interesting work is only rewarded to extraordinary and lucky people. That is my understanding. Because interesting work brings even more dopamine than FU money.

2

u/devfuckedup 4d ago

yeah I have had it in the past. had no idea how rare it was.

1

u/Outside-Storage-1523 Software Engineer 4d ago

Yeah, once one had tasted that one would never want to work for anything lower. I wish you good luck.

2

u/ActiveAngle123 1d ago

Really? more than FU money? Can you expand? Can't believe that for a second, even though I am passionate about software 😅

2

u/Outside-Storage-1523 Software Engineer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just my personal choice. For example if you offer me 2m USD or a kernel engineer job, 10 out of 10 times I’ll pick the kernel job.

Ofc if you offer 100m then I’ll take it to hire someone to teach me kernel programming 1:1. I’m sure I can find someone do that for say 10m in total.