>> At Facebook I could get by barely working a few hours a day. But the job was so unsatisfying
> This is a little too first world. if the work were too sparse and wants more work, why not join interview loops or take classes/training, attend talks?
Where did he mention wanting more work? He mentioned unsatisfying work, I doubt doing interview loop recruiting people when you find your own work unsatisfying is gonna make you a good interviewer (and I'd hate to be the interviewee there). And take classes/training to what end? At 9 years in, I doubt there's many relevant trainings, and learning the intricate details of yet another internal proprietary system has limited returns.
> just go boating or mountain biking. Watch some sports and play video games.
None of these activities leads to finding satisfying, purposeful work, nor are they really good at negating the effects of the unsatisfying work.
Right. "Just learn k8s, bruh." It's like ok, maybe, but if the problem isn't so much a lack of work then you're really juat apinning your wheels learning for the sake of it.
Another issue is evaluating whether the juice is worth the squeeze. It's easy to say "learn a new skill bruh", but what happens when you spend the time learning something, you get hired at a new job relevant to that skill only to run into your original problem all over again? The risk of that is significant, and in the world of tech it's extremely difficult to know what a position at a company is really like because so many of us are kissing ass, and we are avoidant of any real criticism or confrontation.
None of the argumenta here are necessarily wrong, but speaking as if there are clear solutions that those complaining aren't seeing and calling this a first world problem is pretty dismissive.
> This is a little too first world. if the work were too sparse and wants more work, why not join interview loops or take classes/training, attend talks?
Where did he mention wanting more work? He mentioned unsatisfying work, I doubt doing interview loop recruiting people when you find your own work unsatisfying is gonna make you a good interviewer (and I'd hate to be the interviewee there). And take classes/training to what end? At 9 years in, I doubt there's many relevant trainings, and learning the intricate details of yet another internal proprietary system has limited returns.
> just go boating or mountain biking. Watch some sports and play video games.
None of these activities leads to finding satisfying, purposeful work, nor are they really good at negating the effects of the unsatisfying work.