Took a chance at telling my bosses how burned out I am and had a really great discussion with them.

Turns out they want me to lead the front end team, because I'm good at it and can make them do higher quality work. Agreed with me that there's something wrong with the code if you have to use a different IDE lmao.

And I can use my 30+ days of sick leave (which I've never used because I don't get sick) to take time off when I need to. Burn out is a disease.

Not all bosses are shitty.

Congrats!

So, you feel burned out and got offered a lead position? What's the logic? I did let me convince too for higher pay and stuff when I did let know not having fun anymore. It was not a solution to the issue I came with. Anyway, if you're happy with it, good for you.

A month time off is great. Actually, go programming in that month and realize again how amazing programming is if you just do your own thing. All that boring framework stuff and such is pure to prevent normies going of track. Go back to roots. It gains so much confidence.

But yes, most bosses are not assholes in my opinion. I have no idea why so much people feel themselves slaves. Than you're apparently not on the right place. You should think like "they're crazy that they pay so much for it, I would've done it almost for free as well". That someone else is even making more money from it, I don't care, good for them, I care only about the programming anyway. My life's probably more fun than from boss.

@retoor the logic is that I get more decision-making power and do what I actually like doing. They weren't even aware of how unmanageable the code is becoming

Definitely gonna do programming stuff I never have energy for in my time off. Gonna be fun!

@int32 I'm sure it will be fun. Good programming gains energy, doesn't cost it. You actually see getting tired a problem because you want to program more! That's the fucking spirit! :)

@retoor Hehe yeah, you're like "huh why are the birds chirping"

@BordedDev That's why i don't do Rust. If i compile that, the birds will chirp for sure. After i made some space clean on my hard disk of course.