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I work a dead end programming job with no prospects of advancement maintaining 30+ years of technical debt. 8 or more hours of my day are logged to JIRA, 5 days a week, 52 weeks out of the year. If I go below 80% productivity, i'll be written up. If I don't nominate at least 1 person a month for employee of the quarter I get written up. If I'm more than a couple minutes past 8 AM, I'm written up.
I keep applying for new jobs, but they want years of experience with newer technologies. I build projects using those newer technologies and put them on GitHub, but unfortunately not a single fucking recruiter or hiring manager even looks at the fucking thing, they just look at my current role and responsibilities.
What the fuck should I do? I don't want to commit suicide, but I don't want to continue living either.
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Maybe you shouldn't have gotten a job doing something you hate.
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>>61580329
I enjoy programming. What I don't like is maintaining legacy code and being micromanaged to death.
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>>61580346
You just said you want to kill yourself because you hate writing code.
That's pretty extreme, memes aside.
If you really hate your life this much, drop out and move somewhere else and start again.
I hope you at least have some rainy day fund to fund your journey.
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>>61580232
I've been here man. I'm happier now as a consultant. turns out I make more money as a babysitter than a technical contributor. You can get through this. Automate what you can of your job now so that you can start daylighting to build up other competencies and maybe make some more cash. If your manager tries to say 'hey why are you daylighting' cite all of the parts of your contract citing raises and reviews at regular intervals that they have missed. they're in breach of contract too here--stop stressing yourself out for a place that cares nothing for you.
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>>61580368
I have about 20k in the bank.
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>>61580470
put all on black
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>>61580503
I might be depressed, but I'm not insane.
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>>61580522
where are you from?
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>>61580522
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
good luck
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>>61580232
>didn't learn python
>didn't code an app
You're really the only one to blame, grandpa.
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