[Resolute Conservative]

I have been in tech since the mid 80’s and I cannot wait to leave it, just a couple more years unless I just throw in the towel. It is not about science anymore and has not been since about 2000 give or take. It has been bastardized to instant gratification, useless social media, spyware, and useless/convoluted business apps. IMO about 30% of the software out there provides a useful service.

I won’t even get into the demographics.

Call it burn out or whatever, it sucks.

[SpinnerWebb]

agreed

[Nifster]

Most programming was NEVER about science

[snarkpup]

I have been in tech since the mid 80’s and I cannot wait to leave it, just a couple more years unless I just throw in the towel. It is not about science anymore and has not been since about 2000 give or take. It has been bastardized to instant gratification, useless social media, spyware, and useless/convoluted business apps. IMO about 30% of the software out there provides a useful service.

The web site upon which the article resides is a classic example of this kind of crapware. Most of the content of the page is being blocked by my security plugins. I'm not desperate enough to read it to whitelist all the domains it's trying to bring in.

[SaveFerris]

Oh, the tales I could tell. But I won’t, not in the open forum.

[stig]

I have been in tech since the mid 80’s and I cannot wait to leave it, just a couple more years unless I just throw in the towel. It is not about science anymore and has not been since about 2000 give or take. It has been bastardized to instant gratification, useless social media, spyware, and useless/convoluted business apps. IMO about 30% of the software out there provides a useful service.

I won’t even get into the demographics.

Call it burn out or whatever, it sucks.

That's why I got out. Also those salaries are less than I was making in 2000 in tech. So salaries have gone down since I left.

It used to be a great job then they sucked all the fun out of it. Mostly because the management had no technical capabilities and asked for crap to be made fast. Then complained it was crap. Which of course we told them it would be before the project started. But what does a software engineer know?

[Moonman62]

It is not about science anymore and has not been since about 2000 give or take.

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Why does everyone keep saying 2000? I was encountering this crapstorm in the early 90’s. I guess I was ahead of my time.