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aspbee555 ◴[] No.44464757[source]
I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that

I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of everyone else around me doing exactly what they were informed would cause problems instead of having discussions with people that actually knew how shit worked. I was endlessly picking up everyone elses mess and treated worse than a pile of shit all because people were incapable of having a speck of respect for other people since all their hatred for computers fell on me

I GTFO of the career of misery and took half a decade to finally start feeling better

I have now spent years and countless hours working on software and I greatly enjoy doing this work again and find I get even more done than I used to simply by doing life the way I need to instead of how some backwards/abusive control freak "needs it done"

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1. vertigolimbo ◴[] No.44465435[source]
So you went back into software development after 5 years? Maybe you had a burnout and just needed to rest
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2. imhoguy ◴[] No.44465887[source]
I read it that OP has left IT and rested then got back to some freelance/co-op/own softwate development.

I am on the same fence, just on my notice period in the shit show called corporate IT where there is 90% time spent on toxic politics.

Now dreaming to burn some savings, detox and then play with Raspberry Pi projects.

3. aspbee555 ◴[] No.44468841[source]
I have worked with computers for decades, I love it, and for me to not even want to look at a computer was impossible for me

I made it through the Army (decades ago), I ran my own company, handled employees, etc. I have no problem with hard work and stress. My joy for computers was destroyed for a while, and it had nothing to do with the work itself, it was due to targeted intentionally malicious discrimination from the top