| Are you me? I'm going through a very similar situation. What I've found that helps: 1. Wellbutrin (I've been depressed my whole life but had such a negative experience on Zoloft as a teenager that I stayed away until recently) 2. I quit working full-time writing shitty webapps and now exclude any company using NextJS, "AI" as a ChatGPT wrapper and Python. Aside from NextJS, it's not specifically the tech but the companies/startups adopting that tech which suck. 3. Downsized my life significantly and moved to some land. 4. Started a non-tech hobby (farming and building) and take on tech side projects I'm actually interested in. The part time gig sucks because it's nice to have money, but having money at the cost of scrum or product "owners" who generate garbage from ChatGPT and call it a user story was really burning me out. I've got a few long-term irons in the fire for starting companies, and in the mean time limp by on part time work with ample time to direct toward what I want to do (or chores because even though I didn't leave the US I did move to a place where keeping up with the growth of plants occupies a significant portion of my time). Once my spouse lands a job of some kind we'll be better off financially. |