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Just got over with an internship at a somewhat well known IT company and I no longer want to work in this field.

Corporate jobs (especially tech related) and wagie culture drives people insane because of how hollow and boring it is. It is serfdom. Literally none of the people working there seem like they want to be there. If you are running an independent business, are self-employed or someone whose job doesn't require him to be beholden to a faceless company you'll probably be better off. If you want to be happy your work should have meaning, which you won't get in an office environment.

I'll never be happy as a wagie. In fact I'm sure most of them aren't happy either. They way they talk, it's like they've given up on life. They've numbed themselves. Is this what a young child of 13 would have wanted for his life to be? Toiling in meaningless vacuum behaviour, endless meetings discussing the same things over and over, zero substance being discussed, all fake and phony, as Holden Caulfield would say.

Jobs aren't real, companies aren't real, the economy isn't real. What is a "minutes of meeting"? Why are you holding 3-4 meetings every day? What is being discussed? And if you're holding so many meetings, why isn't it translating into some cool stuff being done?

The funniest part was when someone wanted to do something else other than their job. They behaved as if they were about to commit a crime or something. One guy pretended to be sick and took a half day so he could watch the new Final Destination movie. Another was profusely apologising to his daughter because he had to stay overtime and he couldn't go buy her a raincoat and schoolbag that day. It's like doing anything other than slaving for the company is a crime. The guy I was working under would always talk about how his life sucks and the people above him are all morons and what not. Well if they are so stupid why do you still work for them? Why not just shrug?

I would accept hard work and toil if it was in pursuit of something meaningful. Like dying for some great leader or serving your country or working hard to solve some scientific mystery. "Normal people" are losers. They are people that gave up on their hopes and dreams and aspirations. They are slaves. It's not growing up, it's not maturity. It's surrender to a worthless existence. The one upside to a job is that you get some schedule and structure to your life, which is something I don't have when I'm left to my own devices.

AI has rendered most software work meaningless. What's the point of you being there if an LLM is doing all your work for you? Why are you here? Why doesn't the management just fire you if a glorified text generator can do your job? Being an IT wagie/codemonkey cannot be sustainable or fun. If I have to continue down this path, I'll have to get into hardcore research and systems design. That will require strong fundamentals. I'll need to work on those.

Tldr

>>158997

I can bet this guy smokes weed and calls actually workers who drives the society losers.

>>159003

Blue collar workers often have more practical knowledge than your average college graduate. Once I was in an Ola which broke down because of a battery problem. The driver fixed it by using his phone and charger to jumpstart it. I don't know how he did it, but it worked. Can you imagine a corporate wagie driving his car being able to come up with that? Now of course the driver is toiling for every 200Rs he earns, but he is definitely more capable than somebody who sits in an office all day.