Maybe it's because I'm still pretty new to the field, but I love working in IT lol. I don't really get paid enough atm but I work at a large corporation and most people I deal with are pleasant and their problems easy to solve. Plus the project they have me working on is really easy for the most part. Anyway I voted "yes"
I work in IT and I like it. It's not the most glamorous gig, but it's pretty stable and there's plenty of opportunity to climb if you think outside the corporate box. I work in consulting so I get a chance to travel or book a ticket on the weekends if I want to travel. I don't think constant traveling is for everyone. Don't see much of my local friends anymore, so it's kind of like that movie Up in the Air. For the thread itself, it really depends on your personal ambitions. Where do you want to be and what difference do you want to make? Happiness does coincide with personal expectations combined against how much is delivered at this point in time. The problem OP posted sounds like a millennial thing (which I'm a part of) but it's something everyone has or will go through in their life. When I was unemployed for 2+ years I read and listened to a bunch of books. One of them was the classics by Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. I think also the Millionaire Mind too but those books start to bleed together sooner or later. I still believe the core idea of the book is true: if you live your passion rather than live for money, then success will follow. Sometimes with more money than you imagined, and if it isn't what you imagined, then increase your drive to improve your passion. Even the managers/owners you see in life who you think are total morons have fought or worked for something they wanted. Maybe it could be a case where the job was inherited or unearned. Well that isn't your case, and you shouldn't use that as an excuse not to follow through on your own passions. Those self help/get rich books receive a fair share of criticism for assuming level playing fields amongst a terribly unfair world or NLP oneself into worming their way into success. Well if you're in this forum, reading this post right now, then you're likely to be at least 65% ahead of other people in the US, who is 80% ahead of the world. Plus you either have the smarts or drive to do something with yourself...but only if you step out of your comfort zone and believe. Not among the 65%? Who cares, they had a head start but it doesn't mean they were using it. Among the people who aren't struggling to make ends meet, you know... the fortunate, they want the ideal condition of being perfectly challenged with the perfect pay and the perfect work/life balance which could then set the conditions for happiness. But the funny thing about happiness is that not only is it ephemeral, it can be a state of mind that is only achieved through hindsight and the experience just lived. So if you live in a life of boredom and comfort without any sacrifice for yourself or for others, it can be considered a good life, but it's not necessarily a happy or meaningful one...to you. So think ahead. That trite interview question of where you want to be in a few years...think outside winning the lotto or retiring. How many people you want to influence or help in five years? How much impact do you want to make in your job by then? More importantly what do you think your new company can do for you to get there, and if not who or what can? By then you can swallow the fact that your job or manager sucks because you're living an idea you wanted in your mind. If you truly stick to that while improving yourself, when you quit or move on, it's toward something rather than away from your job. Once you reach that point in your mind where you're ready for more, when you ask for better....Then you will get it. It's never too late to change. It's definitely never too late to start.
"I've got a motto..... Like your job, LOVE your wife." - Del Griffith, Salesman - Shower Curtain Ring Division
Switched jobs recently (same industry), was at previous job 5+ years. Previous job was more stressful, longer hours and it was actually a challenge. I was good at it and well respected but for other reasons I decided to leave. New job is a smaller role for me (currently). Not as challenging, this is a problem for me. On the plus side money is better, hours are fewer, more or less same benefits, better career opportunities and development though I find myself surfing internet and checking clutchfans more. As i write this i realize I'm becoming lazy and need to focus more on learning on my own and investing in stocks.
Just saw this movie over the holidays, introduced my daughters to John Candy comedy. Awesome. Spoiler
