What keeps you in tech?
I’m so close to leaving tech. I love coding but between:
- me and other women being forced to work with the people who bullied us even though we reported it
- women around me earning less and being dismissed when they self advocate
- meaningless male coded performance goals instead of just recognising how well someone does their job as an individual
- shameless pushing of AI onto people with moral objections to it
- everything boiling down to profit when my company used to care about actual impact
- random promotions of men just because they’re loud even when it’s against company policy (funny enough women never get these promotions)
- the constant gaslighting of “we don’t have a gender pay gap, trust me. I have female relatives”
I’m so close to quitting. I’m currently running on caffeine, sheer stubbornness (why should I leave when I’m damn good at what I do?), and anger playlists. What keeps you in tech?