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Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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164 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.616s | source
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Jcampuzano2 ◴[04 Jul 25 14:26 UTC] No.44464856[source]▶
This article is not a "I want to leave tech" article. It is an "I want to have more ownership of the nature of my work" article.

Practically every recommendation is also a tech job, its just not "big tech" where you have very little real decision making power.

Tech itself is not the issue here - tech being filled with high paying jobs where you effectively work on issues that directly damage humanity is the issue. And after you have a high paying job its hard to justify leaving it, and every other similarly paying job is basically the same thing in a different package.

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1. spacemadness ◴[04 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44465795[source]▶
It blows my mind people feeling mistreated at X FAANG company just to go to Y FAANG company and expect any better treatment. They are all the same at this point. At least the unhinged career ladder climbers on Blind aren’t kidding themselves.
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2. staticautomatic ◴[06 Jul 25 21:22 UTC] No.44484166[source]▶
Meta seems like it's definitely worse than the others now, though, since you're liable to be explicitly labeled a "low performer" if you get laid off.