[h4kunamata]

DevOps isn't different!!

4 months to land a contract that lasted 2 years, and due to laws it could no longer be extended.

5 months to land another contract that only lasted 6 months, this is my last week at this place.

I have been working in IT for near 20 years now, from dial-up to ADSL, from on-prem to cloud, from software to SaaS, from manual everything to GitHub and anything CI/CD related, from VM to Kubernetes, from DevOps to DevSecOps, etc. And more recently AI!!

I did applied for some IT jobs but I am seriously thinking about any other non-IT job, even tho homelab is my main hobby and enjoy it very much.

What makes me happy is that companies after companies are noticing that firing engineers to be replaced by AI is costing them half million for some companies within half year, so 1M a year spent with AI tokens.

I hear developers saying "I used AI, the code works but I do not understand it" all the time. It has already started, 2027 is the year companies more than never will start being breached due to AI slope.

I do use Perplexity AI as a replacement for Google since SEO is dead in 2026, it does provide me all the sources it used to spider, but all my code is written by me. That is different than copy/paste.

But honestly.......I am tired boss!!

After so many generation of technology jumps, I am tired man.

[MattDamonSpace]

What law prevents the two-year contract from going further?

[h4kunamata]

In Australia, by law a contract can only extend up to 2y and then you have to become full time.

Some companies follow that rule, others do not so you can work 10y under a contract for some companies.

[gib444]

> 5 months to land another contract that only lasted 6 months

My god this is insanity

[h4kunamata]

>My god this is insanity

At some point in your life, I am still in my middle 30s, things are just another Tuesday in the office.

If I could give a piece of advice especially for the younger generation, if you earn $1000k, do not spend $2000k

Always have an emergency saving to help you stay afloat, there is nothing worse than being unemployed and having financial stress. It should be at least a month worth of your living, preferable 3-half year.

If you spend $5k a month with bills, shopping and etc, you should have at least $15k in a saving account with another bank.

The way how things are going, soon a year worth of saving is gonna be mandatory haha

I do, to an extent, expect things to be easier than June 2025 when AI was still pure hype, but like I said, I will give it a try another month or so whilte trying to shift away from IT.

But until AI doesn't take another deep( datacenters contructions delayed or being cancelled altogether already, companies noticing the enshitification, stock market bubble that is already poping, companies hiring engineers back because AI hype cooled down), things will get a lot worse before getting any better.