Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by johnmyleswhite 1518 days ago
As others have said, I agree that you should seek professional help and find a way to re-evaluate your thinking about your career. From this post, it seems like you've gotten stuck in a feedback cycle of resentment. To make that more clear, note that many things you've said here would seem to imply you look down on your coworkers and/or on the work they do. There's the obvious example of "I was hard working and intelligent than him", but more telling are phrases like "I am extremely unhappy being an IC", "I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people instead of moving JIRA tickets around" and "Yet here I am being ‘advanced beginner’ in a different role every couple of years doing grunt IC work" suggest that you look down on the people who actually get things done at a company. How many IC's want a manager who views them as beneath them? What company would be exercising good judgment putting you into a role in which your resentment might trickle down to your reports?

I'd suggest taking a break and working with someone who can help you process your feelings and move past them.