I just realized something. So all of us here that rant seem to be way overqualified for our job.

Why are you still at yours?

Who says we ain't looking for another?

A rather hard question to answer. I wouldn't necessarily say I'm under qualified for my job, more under appreciated or under valued at times. My first year at my current (first post university dev job) was largely product integration which I felt didn't really match what I was hired for, I have a physics/maths background more than a CS background and thought I was hired for algo. This was a single project and may have been something to give me experience on that I don't think people thought it would take as long as it did.

I didn't want to leave in the first year as it was experience which is good and I was worried it wouldn't look very good on my CV.

These issues I raised in my annual review and they were taken seriously. As a result of my issues I was moved onto something more R&D when that project was completed and have been ranting less since.

I don't believe that for a second, for a couple of reasons. One, measuring over-qualification in IT is more difficult than other industries because it doesn't count as much and there isn't the need for the same level of professional certification as, say, medicine or finance.

Secondly, in my view, a lot of the rants on here that might give you that impression seem to be from arrogant, egotistical, whining twats who think they know everything and are better than those around them.

@CrankyOldDev I disagree.

I think a lot of people here, me included, work in companies that aren't very tech savvy, where they don't see tech as a core competency. They hire just any monkey they can find that can answer a few brain teasers that can be easily found with Google.

I see inefficiencies every day, poor code, and when things go wrong, I'm usually the one figuring out how to fix them. I would say 70% of all production issues, we have could be avoided or more easily solved if the code wasn't written by monkeys...

And well I'm pretty sure I'm grossly underpaid because I never left.

My reason I'm still here? I have health issues and whenever I start out even have a chance to make a move, the timing is just not right.

Other then having surgeries, I'm now deaf so it's even hard to just get an interview, and I'm not really an algo/data structures guy so takes me a month to just get back into the groove...

-Good manager
-Interesting/novel projects
-Equity

@mhudson lucky you

I guess I get interesting projects too... With ever changing deadlines and requirements and constant distractions including getting pulled into fixing other people's mess when they blow up in PROD

@billgates My sympathies for your situation. I didn't say (or mean to imply) there was no such thing as being over-qualified. Such people exist in every industry all over the world. And like yourself, have many and complex reasons as to why.

But a lot of the contributors here are so high on their own self-importance that they paint a picture of being God's gift to programming and forced to single-handedly uphold developer integrity among a bunch of stupid morons in their companies.

Four months of looking.
Two negative replies.
So much crying.