I used to love my job.

Then I disliked my job.

The people I worked with kept me at my job.

When those people left all I had was my dislike.

Now I hate my job.

And I'm really starting to hate the people I work with.

I'm not even sure I even want to keep developing anymore, but at this point I couldn't support my family any other way.

So I'll stay smouldering for the next 40 years, in a career dumpster fire that's long lost its magic just so I can give my family a better life.

Keep looking for job opportunities, there'll be a better one for you soon enough. :-)

next 40 years?? Wow so optimistic thinking that you'll survive as a programmer for that long 😂

Yeah, keep looking for the job.

Ask the people you liked where they went and try to follow them.

@electrineer Yeah, I agreed with you.

@GastonJJames good to know you agreed with me!

@electrineer Your most welcome.

If you keep a job that makes you unhappy, your family relationships WILL be affected. It might hurt to pull the band-aid off right now, but you absolutely cannot dismiss the value of your own mental health. Having a job you hate, solely to support your family, will lead to resentment and bottled-up dislike for the exact people you're sacrificing to support.

Don't let this happen.

@bahua I don't disagree, but the things that make me unhappy aren't just at my current job.

Micromanaging, over selling product management, executive lies, office politics, sales/marketing(need I say more).

I doubt anyone at my company even realizes that we're under a growing hostile takeover from our private investment partner.

I give it a year and the whole culture we had will be dead, and then we're just a corpse grinder.

I've tried leaving, but in my area nobody wants to pay me what I'm already being paid because, "you don't hold a high enough degree to merit that kind of cost." Regardless if I hold almost 20 years of experience.

Same boat, sans family. Despite everyones good advice I have concluded I simply detest working, period. Nothing anyone can say will ever make me enjoy it, it is it's very nature to warp something you love doing into something you dread doing.

Why are you describing me???

just be built differently?? like it really isn't hard?