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memorys-skyscraper · 5 hours ago

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god i fucking hate job hunting. i dont wanna "empower customers and drive shareholder value by delivering products at scale". i dont wanna "join a high-performing team and collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive impactful solutions". i dont wanna "help establish a leading brand and accelerate growth in an undisrupted industry". can i just work on a thing that people like or find useful. is that too much to ask

#rambles #its a real grim time to be an avowed genAI hater in the tech industry who doesnt want to help cause outright harm #most job postings matching my skillset are either for plainly evil companies that are actively ruining society and the earth itself #(amazon or meta/facebook or google or what have you)#or doing stupid ai bullshit that *also* helps ruin society and the earth itself #or it's web3/crypto. which obviously also sucks for the same reasons. though sometimes its a fun combination of those 3 #i got like halfway through the interview process with a company that was none of those things that i thought would be a really good fit #but i got the “we're not moving forward” email today- given the job posting is no longer up im hoping they just already found someone #as opposed to them rejecting me outright. but i have no way of knowing.#man i just. dont know what to do. the tech industry sucks more with each passing day but its the only thing i have experience in/skills for #if i were to quit & go back to school for something else that would be a huge gamble that would leave me broke #and i probably wouldnt have better job prospects by the end of it- just more palatable ones #like my dream job would be in localization but 1. my japanese isnt good enough so i'd have to spend probably multiple years developing it #and 2. from what i understand its a very competitive & unstable job market with mostly contract/temp work #every day the temptation to just get up and walk in the woods and spend the rest of my days as a hermit grows stronger

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