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It's good. The pay is good and it's very flexible. I get to work with some pretty cool technologies (especially Kubernetes). I'm glad that I have an opportunity to improve my skills in these areas where I'm honestly not that good. I work with brilliant people, most of whom are better than me in almost every way possible. I should be grateful.
But I'm bored. I feel like I'm just maintaining other people's work and that I'm not really building anything novel. I feel like I'm just tweaking and maintaining things that are already mostly finished. I don't feel like I'm learning as much as I'd like to. It's very mentally challenging too - which feels like it should be a good thing, but after a while, I just want to be assigned something that I feel confident that I can do without too much trouble or difficulty so I have some spare energy to focus on other things that I find more interesting.
I'm really wondering why I feel like I'm in a rut lately. I took a nice long holiday break, and yet I still haven't got much done so far this year. I've been sick, and still feel a little burned out from the inevitable pre-holiday rush. I also think there's definitely a bit of wintertime depression at play too. So I'm hopeful that things will get better soon if I just bear on and wait for a bit.
I'm still looking at new jobs, but very casually and being very picky about it. It's hard to say if the right thing to do is to change jobs or just change my outlook on life instead. I feel like the smart thing to do is to stay and wait for my mood to improve. I really don't want to change to a new job, just to find myself feeling the exact same way a couple more years down the line. But all the same, I just want to look around and see what's out there. As I go through the applying/interviewing process, I think I'll get a better feel of whether the problem is me or my job.
Sigh. Is it too early to retire yet? I'll be 30 in just a few more years, surely that's old enough....
Anyway, thanks for posting this. Would definitely like to see it become a regular topic!