What Makes A Software Engineer Sad?
Reasons to be upset, one, two, three — in your daily life in the Grand Game.
It can be a hard life in the Grand Game of Software Engineering — having to deal with everything from the usual diminishing of pay in accordance with how long you remain at a company to the regressive, frustrating, and frankly obstructive style of pretty much everyone in the hierarchical dog-eat-dog management classes.
If we temporarily cast aside the usual problems of pay and working conditions, there are a number of sub-problems, a number of irritations that can steadily erode our sturdy facades and, eventually, weaken us so much that we frankly lose the will to participate in the game any longer.
Whether it be an explosion with the frustration at attending yet another banal performance review, a gradual withdrawal from participation with coworkers due to growing disinterest in the sheer tediousness of the job, or just a walking away altogether due to the fact that everyone seems to be talking the talk but no-one seems to be walking the walk — sooner or later we run out of patience, motivation, and eventually tact.
Let’s take a look at the straws that gradually accrue on the camel’s back which can make life in the trenches eventually unbearable.
