> [Burnout]: In the last 1-2 years IT has been showing up as #1 in the studies done. Up around ~65%. Major corps like Nvidia and Cisco being worse yet.
I've read all of your comments here with great interest, thank you for sharing all of that.
In what follows, I'm not doubting or challenging what you said. It's just that my professional experience has been really different.
I've been getting paid to do what I guess is called 'IT' since 1993. The first few years, it was extremely broad work, everything from installing new desktops (Windows 95 Beta!) to writing web apps to installing and configuring Cisco routers.
Starting in the late 1990s, my work focused on and has pretty much remained on what is now called devops or SRE. Working with apps teams and writing code to automate all the things.
I have worked at a > $250billion USD (revenue) company, and a 35 person startup, and a big tech company based in Germany (from California), and two different companies in the 'FAANG' group, and several in between.
I not only have, overall, really enjoyed my work, but most of the people I worked with have as well.
Not perfect; lots of different kinds of bullshit, and many frustrations.
More objectively, I've never seen a lot of turnover.
So...a question: is the 'IT' you've been in fundamentally different than the 'IT' I've been in?
I've read all of your comments here with great interest, thank you for sharing all of that.
In what follows, I'm not doubting or challenging what you said. It's just that my professional experience has been really different.
I've been getting paid to do what I guess is called 'IT' since 1993. The first few years, it was extremely broad work, everything from installing new desktops (Windows 95 Beta!) to writing web apps to installing and configuring Cisco routers.
Starting in the late 1990s, my work focused on and has pretty much remained on what is now called devops or SRE. Working with apps teams and writing code to automate all the things.
I have worked at a > $250billion USD (revenue) company, and a 35 person startup, and a big tech company based in Germany (from California), and two different companies in the 'FAANG' group, and several in between.
I not only have, overall, really enjoyed my work, but most of the people I worked with have as well.
Not perfect; lots of different kinds of bullshit, and many frustrations.
More objectively, I've never seen a lot of turnover.
So...a question: is the 'IT' you've been in fundamentally different than the 'IT' I've been in?
Thanks!