[TickMark]

Is it me or is there a worryingly large amount of these kinds of posts. Where people feel tired, lost or straight out depressed.

I don't see this that often on designer or some other professional forums.

I am not complaining, I am just worried is there some underlying problem with this profession? We are worried about technical debt accumulates in our codebase, we might forget about social debt that accumulates in our life.

[buboard]

i think everyone over ~35ish is quietly desperate in a corporate job (not just tech people). The fact that there are now more opportunities for remote/self-employment may make more people turn to it

[TickMark]

That's true. I suppose some professions do not have propers venues and forums to vent their frustrations.

There's definitely a trend though, it could be that this is the first wave of internet age IT professional hitting mid-life crisis.