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I think I’m going to lose my mind. This stupid website I’m working on keeps going down and at the worst times possible. Nothing we do seems to help. I’m again awakened in the middle of the night to attend to it and still have no good answers why. My anxiety is through the roof because I can’t get back to sleep after tonight’s outage. The client is beyond pissed even though a ton of problems would be solved if they would just get off of some legacy software and onto something more modern. But they insisted it be this way and the budget is already blown and then some even if they changed their minds. If it’s going to be that I continue losing so much sleep and sanity, I may just have to quit this job. I hate the thought of that because I always want to see things through to a happy conclusion. And I like my teammates and don’t want to let them down. But I’m too old for that kind of no-sleep development lifestyle now. Nobody’s shitty website is worth my physical and mental health.

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  • 4
    I see two options. You work business hours and the system remains down if it goes down outside that time, or you work business hours and they pay up so that you can invest in things that keep it running.
  • 5
    Yes. Their shitty decisions need some consequences. I like to set some boundaries like “you need to do <a> or else I can’t support you after hours without <b> pay increase….” Your mental health is important, without quality sleep you can’t make quality decisions during the day. Also, it sounds like you might be due for a mental health day or two, especially after an overnight outage with high stress.
  • 3
    Normally, it isn't "old tech" that makes software unreliable. Almost always, it is bugs in the unreliable software that make that software unreliable.

    Fix that damn bugs!
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