From what I've observed, the big problem with working in tech is that you have all of the responsibility but none of the authority or autonomy. By comparison, in most service sector jobs you have no authority or autonomy but also little responsibility. In other engineering disciplines you have a lot of responsibility but also much more authority and autonomy.

Came here to say exactly this.

If people don't like building tech that's one thing.

But the problems most of this thread are discussing are just people and organizational problems.

If you want to live and make money you're probably going to have to put up with some level of bullshit.

Find the company with the least of it and enjoy the rest.

Yeah my job sucks shit too, I just make 1/3rd as much as MANGO software engineers.

Should’ve learned to program. At least writing python scripts with Claude has automated a lot of my job away.

Anyway, there’s a support group for your shitty job, it’s called the bar, and we meet daily.

This is the kind of attitude that keeps the world the way it is.

When it comes to the shit imposed to the rest of society, and the shit imposed on office workers, it's worse in this industry.