I don't wanna work in corporate anymore

Rant alert: Have you felt the same way? How many years of work ex after which you started feeling this way? Stability and money I’m grateful for. But I hate the constant comparison and competitiveness among peers/colleagues. Makes me want to quit and do a Teach for India fellowship. A little corporate detox. Wish I had become an athlete instead. I know it’s not an easy life, but It’s the kind of competitiveness I’m inclined towards. Not inclined towards the kind where you compete with people to please a company that will never care for you as a human. But people fail to recognise that, lose perspective, and lose themselves too. People have no class in this shitty world. If I have kids, they’re definitely becoming athletes and not entering this hellhole. Most ironically, I’m borderline considering an MBA to escape the corporate life for 2 years, but obviously I’m aware I will only get entrenched further in it due to the degree.

Hi everyone , as the title mentioned i am getting tired with this corp culture. My managers are giving bullshit timelines for tasks and expects me to finish it. Now i know u guys gonna give me advice to switch on mncs but my friends at mnc are also saying same things. I am just really getting fed up . Its just been 2yrs for me. Expect salary i could never find anything good in it but i really dont see a long term career in this .

I am an engineer, what I enjoy is solving technically challenging problems. I don't really want to spend my time bothering with non-code solutions to your business problem, and I don't care how much money my code makes you. Just have a tech lead give me a challenging tech problem to solve or build for(WITH the necessary requirements) and I'll get it done. Simple. Personally I'm saddened to see how chasing impact has taken over all good tech companies, and how you basically HAVE to create value and take ownership in other ways if you want to be SDE-3 or higher. I would rather be a more technically competent, deliverer SDE (think someone who's extremely good at being an SDE-1). Climbing the SDE ladder is boring.

I have been into programming since I was 15. I have been working in the IT industry for the past 8 years and have been very successful in my domain because of my will to solve problems at work as interesting puzzles. But this interest has slowly and gradually formed a huge part of my life to a level that if I am away from it for sometime, it gives me anxiety. I am afraid this will affect my other parts of life like giving attention to my family, spending ample time with them. As a process, I started to have no code Saturdays so that I am completely away from my laptop and spend time doing other mundane things. But this has not reduced the anxiety. Any suggestions for reducing my workaholic nature ?

I think it’s not the work that I am bored of but the fact that corporate doesn’t allow you personal time and space. My timings have always been 10 to 8 or 11 to 9 and it’s next to impossible to get a project that has 9 to 6ish. How are people managing this after marriage and kids? Where is the time to focus on your personal goals and quality time for your family? Or do we target to achieve FIRE? But if that means slogging in the present, how is it useful to compromise your present altogether. Maybe this is just a rant, but I am fed up. I need my evenings now. I need my evenings to be free and not full of “So I’m gonna start presenting now”, “can someone please take the MoMs” bs

So I left my job at one of the big 4s few months ago. Will discuss the reason some other time. But one of the issues I'm facing right now is that I never felt good in the corporate environment. Bosses shouting at you for your mistakes, you feel threatened to stand up against your own boss since they unfortunately have too much power. You need to take permission for leaves. People can be rude to you and you need to maintain your calm. The corporate politics. Then I left big 4 for some reasons. Took a short break. And now I'm working in one of the Indian firms. They have such policies that your TAT cannot be more than 5 minutes. You cannot log off before 8 pm. If you login after 5 minutes of the actual login time, then you would be marked as absent. Sometimes you're given deadlines which are very difficult to manage and hence you remain stressed out with your work. You don't have the freedom in your work and need to do everything as it has been told. So I don't really feel good in corporates. I feel there is too much pressure and it is just making me feel more and more sad. I don't feel myself anymore and I feel like a puppet. Does anyone else feel the same? How do I deal with this feeling? It scares me to think about how I have just started my career 3-4 years ago and need to work for the significant years of my life and I don't want to wake up and sleep with this feeling EVERYDAY. I think this is the first time I'm talking about it. If anyone would like to share their thoughts, or guide me regarding how do I feel better, or anything you feel I'm doing wrong and could be improved, then I'm all ears. Let's talk it out.

Side projects and hobbies that once brought joy now seem like monumental tasks. The energy to code for fun is gone, replaced by a numbness that Instagram barely alleviates. I was drawn to it to be doing something that’s helpful for others, something fun, a hard challenge or impactful. But the best opportunities have landed me in soul-less projects. No impact, no appreciation, no engaging challenge. Just a cog in the machine. Life goes by in the 1030 - 8. Barely making the money to give back to my family and save up to get married. I can’t afford posh restaurants, have no time for hobbies or sports. Feels like I am getting nothing in life. No money, no meaning, no fun, no passion, no societal status.

I'm 24 and currently working in a startup as a software engineer. I just don't feel like working in tech anymore. The work I do is interesting and challenging, the workload is decent, not very high, workplace is nice, pay is great, but I still don't feel like working in tech anymore. I have a huge responsibility here(I basically lead tech here) and I feel like I don't do enough justice to it and I'm not competent enough to hold such a responsibility as yet, especially because we're scaling very well business-wise and have a big user base now. Due to this feeling, my contributions have also gone down off-late. Initially I used to work a lot and do whatever's required as it should be in a startup environment, but I feel like that spirit too is dying slowly. I keep thinking about starting a business(non-tech) but I have no experience there, so I'm a bit afraid there too. I have decent savings(~70L) but it's not sufficient enough that I can take a retirement. And I also feel I'm too young to even think about quitting an industry altogether. Should I just push through for a few more years and see where it goes? Has anyone been in the same boat where you wanted to quit tech? What did you do then?