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TJT

TJT

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Two Job TJT coming to an end. Feels like a massive weight off my back son. Although it was interesting in general. I hope I don't regret doing this. Mostly I'll miss the variety of development and different stuff I was doing.
 
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Neranja

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TJT said:
Two Job TJT coming to an end. Feels like a massive weight off my back son. Although it was interesting in general. I hope I don't regret doing this. Mostly I'll miss the variety of development and different stuff I was doing.
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Seriously, I don't know how you could even handle two jobs worth of management.

I don't know if it's only me, but the older I get, the more office politics and management bullshit creeps into my job. I had five meetings today--because my sixth was canceled at the last minute. But the longer I do this shit, the more I lose patience with it, because it keeps me from doing actual, meaningful work. You know, the things I signed up for, where I can feel like you achieved something at the end of the day.
 
TJT

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Reflecting back on it for the first 3 years it was easy to do. I was mid-level and had a lot of under the hood impact at both places but minimal visibility to anyone. For whatever twist of fate I designed billing and invoicing systems in two different companies in two completely different industries and at no point was that in the job description. Just sort of happened. This left me with most of my time being spent on what I like doing. Being heads down coding and figuring stuff out.

As billing is extremely important to any organization and I was the sole person who knew it in and out and automated all of it this left me in a position where I was mostly left alone unless there was an issue with the above that I had to resolve. Low visibility but high impact.

A year ago a number of things changed:
  • My old manager at 1 got let go for a dumbass self inflicted reason.
  • I got promoted at both places (lol).
  • Manager at 2 is well meaning but a micro-managing woman who wasted lots of my time in general.
  • Not a RTO but a soft RTO requiring me to be in the office for 1 more than once a quarter.
  • Manager at 1 got replaced and while I like him a lot he requires my direct involvement a lot so I am in meetings more than I used to be.
  • I don't mind working a lot but I genuinely felt like a dickhead shrugging off one responsibility to do another.
    • Also have two small children so this meant I had zero free time for anything.
So I needed some weight off my shoulders. Definitely losing an extremely lucrative cashflow but whatever.
 
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Neranja said:
Seriously, I don't know how you could even handle two jobs worth of management.

I don't know if it's only me, but the older I get, the more office politics and management bullshit creeps into my job. I had five meetings today--because my sixth was canceled at the last minute. But the longer I do this shit, the more I lose patience with it, because it keeps me from doing actual, meaningful work. You know, the things I signed up for, where I can feel like you achieved something at the end of the day.
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Feel this myself.

I became too important and what that means is lots of meetings. It's tough for me to commit code and even tougher to do it on any sort of decent timeline.

I suppose it's nice being at the top sometimes, but my work involves a lot of shuffling priorities around and setting people straight in meetings.
 
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I feel that. I kind of just want to be a code monkey, even if maybe that's not as valuable. Beyond just meetings, I'll extend that to stuff that includes ops. Sometimes I just want to write a bunch of business logic related code.
 
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