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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 13:54:57 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I'm in a tricky spot, because I'm tired of development, but when I look at other IT job listings, it's always a mixture of lacking qualifications and knowing that I'd hate the job anyway.

   I don't want to maintain Microsoft systems or Cisco networks, and that's basically what Norwegian IT infrastructure consists of, and the rest is AWS and Google Cloud, and I hate those too.

   Also, there's stuff like Citrix and Aruba that I'm mostly clueless about.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 13:57:10 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      Something tells me that, with all the stuff I seem to hate, perhaps I shouldn't be working in IT at all. It's just that I don't think I could find anything else to do with my CV, and what the hell would that be anyway?

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 14:01:29 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         You could say that "Having a job that you don't like is how the rest of us get by, princess." and my reply to that would be "All right, so I'll just go shoot myself then, because I can't live like that."

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 14:06:03 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            I'm quite lousy at doing things I hate on the long term. I can't function like that. I just implode and get fired if I try to overpower it and pretend that everything is fine. Did so repeatedly in my 20s. Now I just talk to my manager and tell him that the job isn't working for me, and if he can't change anything, we agree that I should resign, and that's that.

            1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 14:09:34 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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               I've learned that I can't prioritise keeping a job over my job satisfaction. That option doesn't exist for me. This means that I never bend over backwards just to keep a job. It's a rather bold and fearless existence.