u/cafecar

Laugh all you want, I get it. After spending about 12 years completely immersed in tech, I honestly have no idea about any other career fields.

My goal is to stop staring at a screen 11-12 hours a day and find something practical, something I feel is more connected to the real world. I fully expect my income to decrease significantly, but honestly, money isn't my top priority right now. I'm lucky to have a comfortable place with a small mortgage, and my needs are well covered. Making around $100,000 a year (with good benefits) would be more than enough.

I understand that $100,000 is a good salary for many people, but in the tech sector itself, it's often considered on the lower end.

So, does anyone know if jobs like this even exist? I'm talking about roles that don't need entirely new and highly specific qualifications, but where my current experience in project management and achieving sales could be a real asset.

I'm a software engineer, and my company just told me I'll be let go in about two months as part of a large, company-wide layoff. I know I should be using this time to find another well-paying tech job, and I've even polished my CV and updated my LinkedIn.

But honestly, every time I open a job site to look at positions in my field, I feel... Nothing. I've completely checked out of this whole thing.

It's a strange feeling because a part of me knows how lucky I am to have these skills and make good money. But at the same time, I can't shake the feeling that most of the 'problems' I get paid to solve are just imaginary problems, created specifically so some exec somewhere can hit their target.

I've been solving these fabricated problems for over ten years. And when I think about it, the last time I felt like I had a 'real' job was a simple one where I dealt directly with customers, and I was earning about a fifth of my current salary. I understand that this 'bullshit jobs' thing isn't just a tech problem, but it feels like most of them happen from behind a computer screen.

What's the point of all this? Seriously, who are we really helping with all this work?