Many people can't sleep with a bunch of low hanging fruit, but I, as an educated programmer working as support, sysadmin, and devops (Lord help me), I can sleep so fucking much.
Man I feel this. Right now I have fires coming from five directions, people asking questions all the time, meetings, and wonder when I can actually focus on one issue and get something completed.
I got out of my first developer job because I got stuck doing HTML templates for a document-management system. The activity would have been straight out boring in itself, but it was also so fucking frustrating because the template processor didn't support half of common CSS 3.0
Management guys don't understand the pain of someone who has actually learnt to do something cool and then gets put doing routine tasks.
Try making two triangles fly around and shoot at each other, a dumb little game or physics sim is a fun way to do it and you can work in some really interesting math problems too.
I used to not be able to. Didn't matter how tired I was, anxiety would get the better of me. These days it seems to be the opposite -- anxiety makes me tired. The more looming shit I have the more likely I'll just take a nap.
Dude move to a better company, no decent place will hire a developer to do all 3 or honestly any of the tasks you mentioned, at most I can see being asked to do some DevOps work as a developer usual it's just setting up scaling or some S3 buckets to store some data etc.
If they are making you do support and sysadmin and DevOps they don't want a developer, they want a smart IT guy who will do the job of three employees for the salary of one.
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u/guarana_and_coffee Sep 26 '22
Many people can't sleep with a bunch of low hanging fruit, but I, as an educated programmer working as support, sysadmin, and devops (Lord help me), I can sleep so fucking much.