Because job hopping is scary as hell (especially for developers who struggle with imposter syndrome) and job hunting is generally shitty.

What if I don’t like the new place? What if I can’t feed my wife and kids? What if I’m actually terrible at this and my current place is so stupid they haven’t figured that out? What if the economy tanks in the next couple of months and I’m out on my ear with no severance pay?

Better to stay put, accept slightly less money for another year and look at it again when I’ve got the time and energy to cope with it.

I deleted my 13 year old 50K karma account today.

Kinda sad but there is no way I could go back after how they’ve been treating not only 3rd party app users and developers but more recently the unpaid mods who kept the site great.

So is DuckDuckGo but with a few tweaks here and there

They’re not, I have a social group I speak to daily in discord, weekly over zoom and in person every couple of months.

My commute is only 20 minutes each way so it isn’t terrible, I would probably have a worse opinon of it it took any longer.

I’ve not been asked to do overtime so far, I’m not really too sure how I would respond if they asked me to do it.

I recently left a tech job that was 100% remote for one that requires 2 days a week in the office.

When I started the remote only job it was good, I had people I talked to on a daily basis, we did all our ceremonies (bi-weekly meetings) over Teams, we were pretty productive and there were few distractions.

Over time though they pushed for more people to be back in the office, but as someone who lived the other end of the country this wasn’t really an option for me. I gradually felt more isolated, I started dreading the ceremonies because everyone else could have proper human interaction and they often forgot about the one or two guys at the end of the Teams calls.

I don’t love my new commute - it takes too long, there is too much traffic - and eating out in the city is expensive, I’m often distracted because of office chats that really don’t need to happen, and I don’t get to take my kids on the school run every morning.

But I don’t get forgotten about and I get to talk to adults who aren’t my wife and kids a couple of times a week.

So far it’s working and I’m pretty happy, but I really hope they don’t start wanting more than two days a week in person.