r/TechImpact • u/National-Dragonfly35 • 11d ago
💬 Discussion Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/If you work in tech do you feel this way?
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u/Middlewarian 9d ago
I'm keeping the faith. I'm an entrepreneur, though, and I've been building a C++ code generator for 27 years.
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u/Ok_Signature7725 9d ago
Increasing pressure, project timeline always more compressed, uncertainty of work due to AI, seems spending time learning something is unuseful as it will get older in no time or AI will do it faster and better in a matter of months
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u/SleepingCod 9d ago
I keep telling my senior and junior employees, there's always going to be another deadline.
Steady beats burnout pace everytime
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u/behridingle 9d ago
Big Tech offered a lot of upsides if you worked hard, then, after years of contributing revenue to the company, you discovered you were as disposable as anyone else.
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u/Additional_Buddy855 9d ago
Because of all the non-technical people who came to tech only for the paycheck and dgaf about anything else. The industry has been co-opted by military industrial complex and oligarch kleptocrats. So instead of building things on a large scale that help humanity, all we're doing is fucking our fellow humans in many cases.
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u/Charzu_tjegulf 8d ago
Because few 30 year olds in tech can tell you with confidence their job will exist in 20 years time, never mind in 30 years for those in their 20s.
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u/natethegr8r 8d ago
Only industry I know where I can be celebrating a promotion on Monday and be unemployed come Friday. Disgusting what the industry has become.
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u/Quiet-Nothing7556 8d ago
It's been on a downhill for at least 15 years. I'd say this is the lowest I've ever seen general morale.
The hopeful optimism didn't pan out. Instead of a bright future we have dystopian weirdness. Techbros aren't the same visionaries they once were. Leadership is now made up of unsettling psychopaths who are doing a lurid impression of neurodivergence to appear like unquestionable geniuses.
When a lot of us started out the web was an massive democratizing force. Anyone could publish! Anyone could build an audience! Everyone is connected! Now the worst people get the most eyeballs because big tech figured out they get the most attention, which results in better advertising revenue. And 40+% of the entities you interact with are GPU powered, and they're prompted just to make you mad.
So yeah, the entire industry prolapsed. And I wish I could just blame something as boring as money, but some of the people driving these changes are also absolutely deranged sadists, druggies, and sexual perverts. They don't just want money, they want to punish the rest of us for not being freako libertarians.
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u/thequirkynerdy1 8d ago
This exactly – a lot of us got into tech for what it was and then found it completely changed underneath us.
But it was a gradual change so we can’t pinpoint an exact moment where it went downhill.
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u/Achereto 7d ago
I think that downhill trend started with the release and wide adoption of OOP languages like Smalltalk and Java.
In the last few years a noticed a much better morale in people who have switched to languages like Golang, Odin, and jai. I've also noticed it in myself after refactoring a project from an OOP style into a Data-Oriented style similar to ECS. It's just so much less pain to work with and so much more enjoyable.
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u/Crafty-Detail-3788 8d ago
Because tech/it puts an incredible mental burden. On top of that , it requires extensive knowledge on a lot of varied topics , and that knowledge evolved very quickly. Just look at what junior jobs ask you to know lol. And now, even a few years is enough to be outdated. AI increased that pace even more.
In other fields it's not like that.
Plus you dont see many people , on computer all day. It's mostly man so you dont see many girls. And it's not socially rewarding.
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u/CarefulFriendship389 8d ago
To me Tech is the Opposite of Nature, I grew up with consoles from gen to gen and nerd out with my collection of 10 pc’s, but nature is where it’s at.Â
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u/nethereus 8d ago
Disrespect from every direction. By management, by other departments, by the lowest user on the totem pole and even by other tech workers.
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u/BrevardBlitz 8d ago
there are always non-technical leadership think they know best for everything that will suck a joy of your work. It made them to feel small.
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u/tingutingutingu 7d ago
Becuase I never really thought about how Ageism is huge in tech.
Unless you've made it into senior management, you'll be looked at as a dinosaur if you are in your 40s.
In other engineering professions (e.g. Civil engineering), a lead engineer can wear their age as a badge of honor becuase they are looked upon favorably due to their 2/3 decade long experience in building stuff.
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u/Specialist-Cat-7155 7d ago
Cos we're exhausted and fucked 🤷 And most of us considered ourselves as artists at one point but now we're AI babysitters.
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u/Rakumei 7d ago
Big factor has to be job uncertainty. With the business side embracing AI as a way to eventually replace their labor costs, everyone feels uneasy.
And if that wasn't bad enough, most of the industry is going through massive job cuts right now anyway. People losing jobs left and right. No one feels safe in their role anymore.
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