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wanted to ask if anyone has the 'i hate my job' feeling and how they deal with it.
currently i make $70k as an IT Manager and have an offer of $45k at a good company for a Copywriting position. i love to write and it's what i want to do, and i'd love to just never have to be the 'tech dude' ever again. i don't doubt there will be things i hate about a new career as well, but it's where my head is at right now.
i don't know, i'm subbed to r/sysadmin for the past 6 years and i hear people joke about alcoholism and going into goat farming all the time. i just wonder what ya'll think about life in general when you're in that kind of mindset.
i considered the possibility that it's just my current workplace, but i just had a great interview for another well paying IT position and towards the end i started to zone out and i just couldn't see myself doing this sort of thing anymore.
in regards to impostor syndrome, i think i'm a legit impostor. if you took over my environment you'd be like "who tf was this cowboy." i've made it this far on soft skills really. i am a great troubleshooter and both end-users and execs enjoy my presence. but advanced IT concepts evade any interest from me. i've never spent a minute of time outside of work on my area of expertise. i'm your typical gamer turned techie because i'm just natural in that environment. not because i like IT.
this is ultimately a "tell me it's okay to leave" post but it'd be cool to hear from others who find themselves in a similar grey area.
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▶ No.1076662
Switch careers. If you are a normalfag (and you sound like you are) then you gotta do normalfaggot things.
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▶ No.1076671
What is this elevated Reddit spacing?
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▶ No.1076675 >>1076677 >>1076694
>>1076652 (OP)
What does your backup scheme for the company data look like? Have you tested it? Do you send backups offsite? What file systems are you using to store important data?
Your answers to these questions will tell whether or not you should stay.
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▶ No.1076677 >>1076683
>>1076675
i like your spirit kid, one day you will make some money and get a wife and have a kid or two before the mundane nature of IT work grinds on you, dealing with the same peoples problems day in day out, watching the devs laze around and chat about the cool new shit theyre creating while you stress about some company wide software update
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▶ No.1076683
>>1076677
I'm not in IT, but if that's your answer, I'd say you've burned out. Take the copywriting position, but don't expect it to be easy, I'm sure there's a lot of long hours in that job as well.
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▶ No.1076687 >>1076688 >>1076689 >>1076717
No one who posts here earns 50k+, if employed at all. Stop larping as a boomer and get back to the fry cooker!
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▶ No.1076688
>>1076687
maybe he is from reddit
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▶ No.1076689
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▶ No.1076694
>>1076675
>What file systems are you using
NTFS oughtta be enough for anybody, innit.
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▶ No.1076717
>>1076687
$50K in the US isn't much tbh. Especially when you consider a lot of IT works overtime, weekends, on call 24/7, and only two weeks vacation.
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▶ No.1076749
>>1076652 (OP)
Its better to leave if it'll make you happier
But
Make sure it's not just a bad phase in the job
You must've liked the job at some point for some
Reason
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▶ No.1076760 >>1076761
I got into IT because I've been a lifelong hobbyist who wasn't the best programmer though honestly I'm better then most codemonkeys I've met and figured it be a natural progression. Turns out everyone in the industry is a faggot like OP. There's no experience or interest of what they're doing outside of work. Hell some guys don't even own a computer other then their work machine. I've learned more toying with my personal servers and computers, larping as a SysAdmin then years of experience as a real one. The only job I really liked was with a small company that I was solely in charge of the IT, and that was because no one told be no and I could push my autism on the company. And everything ran smoother then the giant companies with huge IT teams because of that. But now I'm back at a huge company because they pay more and spend most of the day shitposting and remotely working on my personal machines.
Tldr; Learn to weld
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▶ No.1076761
>>1076760
>I've learned more toying with my personal servers and computers, larping as a SysAdmin then years of experience as a real one.
This is so true. I expected to learn loads on the job, being taught by senior programmers.
In reality I don't even program at work anymore.
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▶ No.1081245
>Thread about actually working in /tech/
>Dead
Sounds about right
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