When To Leave Your Job (as a software engineer) 

But trash we family!!!

Love this take. Learning or earning is a great way to look at the minimum requirements for a job.

quitting over slack is the new breaking up over text

Just had to quit a job. They took my 18 hour a day for 6 year passion and destroyed it in 5 months. Completely screwed on bills but not regretting my life every day anymore.

Literally at a bridge today where I need to make a decision of leaving job and investments (stock/option ownership in company) over being happy and doing things I want to do that feel exciting and not answer to other people. Video could not have come up at a more opportune moment. All I can say is, if you stick for the pay, you may be sacrificing your mental health, and at worst you resent it and start to fall behind on deadlines and start feeling like a failure. It's just better to acknowledge that you have to move on sometimes. In my situation I don't have a family to support so money for me - what is it really worth? I've also feel like I've had these thoughts for over a year, that's a year I could have been doing something more worthy of my time. It's okay to exhaust and squeeze the job for the last little bit it has to offer you, but don't get delusional when you are trying to "motivate" yourself ("I am learning so much" copium) through projects that do not inspire you.

Might sound weird but I think the moment you realize your current job becomes your comfort zone is the best indicator it's time to leave, if you still want to level up your career. However, if you're fine stagnating, getting your paycheck and calling it a day... if this makes you happy, I wouldn't argue with that.

absolutely fantastic video! wish I had watched it about 10 years ago 😎

I quit my dev job a month ago for this exact reason, you're spitting my friend 👏

It's either you are learning or earning. What a tip! First time watching your video. Subscribed!!!

You bet correct my friend, we do think alike. This is exactly what I needed to hear, thanks :)

I am still quite new in the industry, I would say medior close to senior status. And finally I am getting comfortale with all my tools, so I want to enjoy some period of peaceful grind, where I can really focus on problem modeling and problem solving without learning new lang, new deployement tools etc. And then I will move to something else.

Very good video! I'm sure lots of people had to hear it. I am glad you tackled the fact that the tech job market is tough right now, there is no going around it. And another thing for those who are here in the comments section, if it takes you more than a month to find a job, it's not a problem at all, keep going at it, you'll make it eventually.

Glad I found this channel , quality advice

Well I feel called out. I actually have a pretty good chunk in savings and make pretty solid money ATM, but I'm having a tough time. I just want to step out of the market for a little while and live for a moment. Pulling that trigger is HARD though. Like I just got here, I accomplished the big thing I wanted to, and it feels a little off to just throw that away.

Just left my job, I think right now it's a way better use of my time to study new skills + leetcode/system design and find a new job, than stay at a job where I'm underpaid and no longer learning or growing at all.

I want to leave my current job but I don't have the energy to join another one. This is my third company in two years and a half of experience. This is why I'm hesitant about switching to a new job and I don't think I can handle the stress of meeting new people and prove myself, earn trust, learn new business and settle in a new company.

I really like learning, and I thrive when there are small but consistent challenges, that eventually build up towards something really nice. The difference is that i'm kind of just stupid tbh

Subbed !!❤

learning || earning as philosophy is just perfect

learning or earning - love it

personally I'm currently "earning" and not learning so I do freelance/personal projects on my free time to do more learning. I also took a massive pay cut at my previous job to be able to work with the CTO who I felt could help mentor me which he did but eventually moved on to a higher paying job.

Very good trash!

I like the bold takes

I'm definitely like you... We're both short. Also, I'm not sure if you'll ever not feel challenged at Netflix. Of my 7+ years there, there was always something impactful and interesting to work on and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. 😁

great take, I think this is a good video!

For me is a bit different. My work is really stressful due the scope of the system I have to implemente/maintain, and this inject stress and anxiety in my life, but the people is amazing, the nicest and most heartwarming people ever. Not sure what to do

I got the “this all really feels like a family” from higher-ups recently. Can confirm, absolutely painful to hear

I'm giga bored and moderately not happy with my pay-check, but I'm working towards my degree that can enable me to hopefully move out of my country and my job is flexible enough for me to focus on it and that's the reason why I'm still on the job, if not I would be gone so long. It's so hard though lol

They need to add Waffle House to the FAANG acronym already, it's time.

i don't have a job, what am i doing here

trash moustache is fire 🔥

Great video, completely know what you mean. How do you feel about doing your own thing?

I'm currently thinking about getting a different job. My job is fine, a fair amount of interesting things to do, but I feel like I keep getting held back by the same things every time and it's kind of wearing me out. I know I'll eventually get to that point no matter where I work, but a change of pace would be refreshing. The thing that makes me hesitate is that I'm likely going to be offered to work on a different team fairly soon where those things won't bother me.

Nice hoodie!

Do you happen to know and meet mr. Qiang Xue? The creator of Yii2 framework

I see what other companies are listing as a salary for the same stuff I’m doing and it’s 25-125k more! I want that. I don’t want to jump to another toxic team.

What a man

I feel you on the "finding stuff to fix" at your job. Been there done that🤝

"and you're ok with just sitting at your job" *I'm crying cuz no job* lmfao

Your voice is Scott Cramer but shy

Is this… THE trash?? Like from twitter?

Need challenge at work? Switch Mac for arch 😉

First, I wanna mention third reason for stayin in the job - joy. I bet prime doesn’t learn much while doing for Netflix, and he delegated this part to strems. And I bet that it’s not hard to find other job paying more, than N. But I’m sure that he enjoys it. Second, the general advice for everyone, who had someone relying on you, that don’t quit your job with empty hands. Firstly find new place, and then quit. That could be pretty hard, but leaving with no next place is dangerous not only for the person quitting, but for everyone who relies

tfw can't leave job, it's pays decent but I keep cribbing to my friends lol.

i hear waffle house is pretty prestigious

Good take trash

hate that this is all good advice was really hoping i could make fun of it

don't say you quit your job to become fulltime youtuber.

Your young. So obsessed with improvement. These programing jobs suck, I’ve been here developing for 20 Years its only getting worse. Bring your stamina to the situation for now but realize you will grow weary of the nonsense.