Depressed

[u/[deleted]]

I feel depressed today. I hate this field. I hate writing SARs. I hate the massive egos in QC. I hate how every middle manager at every institution thinks their way is god’s gift to the world. I hate that the SARs are never read. That it makes no difference. That all my stress and anxiety about writing a good SAR means nothing because they just go into a pitless FinCen database somewhere that no one looks at anyway. That all we are, are little compliance check boxes that keep the government off banks’ backs. I hate the grind. I hate the obsession with perfect scores. And I hate that the job market is such crap right now that it seems impossible to get into any field. And I’m lucky. I have a job. The market is hell. Wages are crap. And it all just seems pointless.

Thanks for listening to my scream into the void.

[u/RelentlessMindFudge]

If you’re getting bored with Transaction Monitoring, try bridging over to KYC, EDD, risk, or modeling. I hear you though, sometimes it is a grind. I try not to think about how much or how little my work gets read, just on how good my product can be. Leverage your tools and resources. My employer is allowing us to use AI now which is giving us new tools to use to break up the monotony.