[gumby]

> I knew nothing about the bitterness that seeps into your soul when you’re working in tech.

I wonder if the author got into “tech” because it seemed like a lucrative career and, as they say elsewhere, it looks to the outside world like they are doing something useful.

I’ve only been working “in tech” about 40 years and pretty much every day feels exciting to me. That the author feels differently doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with them!

It could be burn out or depression.

[kookamamie]

Agreed. I took notice of OP's narrow view of "tech" and somehow binding web-dev to (assumed here) everything else. Not everything in tech is about gluing frameworks.

[cableshaft]

I've been working in tech pretty much my entire career (about 20 years at this point) and I haven't had an 'every day is exciting to me' situation in at least 10 years.

There's so much bullshit everywhere nowadays, and despite a red hot tech market I'm having difficulty getting decent job offers outside of healthcare, insurance, b2b, and fintech, which I'm guessing are probably the worst fields for that bullshit (part of that is probably where I live, admittedly, those are the biggest industries here).

Finding some fun again playing around with VR development in my spare time, though. Maybe I'll make the shift to that in a year or so after I build up more experience at it, make a small game or two, and start feeling excitement again.