Finally did. Scared about what I will be doing tomorrow night. I don’t want to end up with another hernia. Off 8 weeks recently because of it. I should have demoted myself before I came back. Scared of change I guess. Now my feet hurt. Factory job. 48 Male
As a full stack developer I switched to a different company with about 30% less pay but 50% more creative freedom.
Best decision of my life.
Money is not fucking worth it. You end up drinking it anyway to numb the pain.
The fact that more pay is not equal to the amount of skill required but the ability to endure pain is just cruel.
Holup, are you guys having creative freedom?
As a manager, I don’t like that at all. :)
I left a FE dev job that pays $30k less than the one I have now, but gave me a really manageable workload, had a small team that would’ve stayed relatively small, and I got a lot of sway in how things were done. It’s one of the few regrets I have recently.
My job now is pretty chill and manageable too, but has a lot of competing projects.
I did something similar but with ops management. Left a big corporate job to work for a small business and it’s been amazing. If I want something done differently I just propose it to ownership, scope it out and draft a plan and start implementing. Software or procedures changes take a few weeks instead of months/years (if at all with all the corporate red tape)
We’ve grown enough in the two years I’ve been here that my overall pay is higher than my corporate job and I’m working 45 hours a week instead of 60+. Also my bonus is going to be insane. 👌
I did not exactly demote myself, but I did turn down jobs with better salary and other compensations and benefits for shorter hours and remote possibility. Also helps that I switched to a lead dev role where I have a lot of input and trust, I guess.
Working conditions and time with my family are extremely valuable to me. I refuse to be an absentee father to my children. I’ll take the days off for kids shows or when they’re sick, thank you.