So, first, it sounds like leaving that job was an upgrade…
I interviewed with a similar company, they had a 3 month average turnover in their software development department. They declined to hire me because “you’re over-qualified, you’ll just get a better offer and then leave us.” True enough, but that might take years, is very unlikely to happen in the next 3 months and by that point I’m beating your average… I think what they were really afraid of was that I might corrupt their culture and actually teach their developers how to fix problems instead of patching them and quitting. Getting their software patched to fix problems also seemed to be perversely ingrained in their sales / support culture - I don’t think sales there wanted software that “just works.”
Over the years, I have done my best to avoid database and network… both seem to be an invitation into a hell of others’ makings. I prefer my own hells to others’.
It was, except for the fact of ageism, the shortness of the tenure, the already accelerating developer job apocalypse, and the soul crushing insult of the experience. After a year, I stopped looking for a job and felt a huge weight lift off my soul. My career is dead, and I stopped searching when I realized I lost all joy in the craft. I just didn’t want to do it anymore. It is almost like the way Alex in A Clockwork Orange could no longer listen to his favorite musician, Bach, after his “programming”. I find myself recoiling from it.
So, first, it sounds like leaving that job was an upgrade…
I interviewed with a similar company, they had a 3 month average turnover in their software development department. They declined to hire me because “you’re over-qualified, you’ll just get a better offer and then leave us.” True enough, but that might take years, is very unlikely to happen in the next 3 months and by that point I’m beating your average… I think what they were really afraid of was that I might corrupt their culture and actually teach their developers how to fix problems instead of patching them and quitting. Getting their software patched to fix problems also seemed to be perversely ingrained in their sales / support culture - I don’t think sales there wanted software that “just works.”
Over the years, I have done my best to avoid database and network… both seem to be an invitation into a hell of others’ makings. I prefer my own hells to others’.
It was, except for the fact of ageism, the shortness of the tenure, the already accelerating developer job apocalypse, and the soul crushing insult of the experience. After a year, I stopped looking for a job and felt a huge weight lift off my soul. My career is dead, and I stopped searching when I realized I lost all joy in the craft. I just didn’t want to do it anymore. It is almost like the way Alex in A Clockwork Orange could no longer listen to his favorite musician, Bach, after his “programming”. I find myself recoiling from it.
There’s always “projects” for fun… things for yourself, for people near you.
Lately I’m into a music player and a calendar/scheduling app…