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Hey, I'm nearing the end of my rope too. Started with the company when it was small (5 people), spent tons of time building processes, tooling, training, management systems, etc.
Now the owners want to be "more corporate" and are trying to cut me out without ever understanding what it is I've done for them in the first place (or honestly, what we even do at all).
Sadly they've paid me enough that leaving will hurt and I have dependents.
i have seen this happen so many times -- it hasn't happened to me because i've never worked at such a small startup before, but i knew a guy who was at a startup when it was just 20 people and he was still there when they made it to 1800 people, and then one day they just fired him with no notice saying he just wasn't good at his job
I'm in a weird position in that literally everything we use from project management to design process to in house software was entirely designed by me and is maintained by me.
The owners of the company are almost 70 and have never run a company, so I had to step up and make things work because they wouldn't.
Ofc I did all that on my own because they couldn't follow or understand any of the requirements of the job. Now that is been running smoothly thanks to me for years they think that it just works because they had done meetings and paid an IT firm to install viruses on our computers that I had to fix.
Luckily the staff will knows what I've done, and agree that I should just let it crash and have them hire me on as an outside consultant lmao
quitting a job is one of the greatest highs for me
congrats on putting in notice.
I don't regret getting my non-professional MS in what "smart money" considered a settled/dead discipline. I learned a bunch of shit I wanted to know and developed a lot of peripheral knowledge/skills in the process. and the credentials has never hurt me, quite the opposite since I shifted into public service.
Thanks. Yeah I'm trying to study cybersecurity but everyone is saying that field is dead now. I'm almost finished so I might as well go through with it now it all I see in my future is being the 3rd guy with a masters at the Dairy Queen.
It is not dead, if anything AI is gonna make it so, so much harder to stop.
Then why is nobody hiring?
Because there is a massive recession hidden by AI stocks and nobody wants to admit it yet.
there are no tech jobs anymore so idk why the fuck I'm bothering.
The end of tech jobs has been greatly exaggerated.
If you need to convince yourself, start self hosting easy stuff like WordPress, just using AI.
Since AI is replacing us, it'll go quick, right? (It won't.)
Then you can come join us on the self hosting Lemmys and join us laughing at tech Bros who say their AI is going to replace us any minute now.
In the meantime, hang in there. It's still a great time to join the tech field.
idk why the fuck I'm bothering
It'll narrow your job prospects for sure...
Maybe you can be the first Hexbear to do a startup and scam venture capitalists 
My brother in law is a tech bro (albeit with surprisingly good politics, not as good as mine but better than I'd ever expect for a tech bro)