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I went through this a few years ago. Worked as a programmer and chose to leave programming and went to software support when outsourcing started to pickup.
Software support quickly got to the point where I wanted to quit every day but the cost of living made that prospect impossible.
Eventually, my wife got a new job and we relocated to the south where I took 2.5 years in a trial early retirement.
Ultimately, I got bored and returned to work doing data entry just to have something to do and make a few bucks.
Low pressure and easy work makes this job pretty great. I never thought I would be ok doing data entry but the work is evolving and i'm doing some reporting using my sql experience with a potential promotion this year.
I went through this a few years ago. Worked as a programmer and chose to leave programming and went to software support when outsourcing started to pickup.
Software support quickly got to the point where I wanted to quit every day but the cost of living made that prospect impossible.
Eventually, my wife got a new job and we relocated to the south where I took 2.5 years in a trial early retirement.
Ultimately, I got bored and returned to work doing data entry just to have something to do and make a few bucks.
Low pressure and easy work makes this job pretty great. I never thought I would be ok doing data entry but the work is evolving and i'm doing some reporting using my sql experience with a potential promotion this year.
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Originally Posted by XRiteMA98
My dear friend, i've been in your shoes. i've been working in IT as a developer for 20 years and yes, at some point I couldn't take it anymore. Long hours, strict deadlines, the company encouraging us to work very long hours by buying us junk food, sharing the source code with people from 2 continents, daily meetings, testing, testing, testing just to get the product on the market by the agreed date, to make that profit for our investors.
If you want to take the pressure off your shoulders, do what I did and find a job in IT but not in a software company. If you are in the IT department of a company who does other things but not sell software you will be better. It might be a bank, an investment company etc... these are just examples. most companies nowadays have an IT department just for in the house solutions.
Interesting point. I’m in a software company as a manager who started off as a programmer and then moved into testing. I agree there is a lot of pressure here.
Is there any truth to non-tech companies not paying programmers/ testers what the going rate is?
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