My job is not satisfying anymore. I used to live creating beautiful pages from scratch and totally get a kick out of working for A-clients.

However i’m currently more and more turning into a software developer. Nobody cares if it’s pretty as long as it’s functional and working noone cares.

Ofcourse it give me freedom but at least half of the stuff i’m working on is not creative in the least bit and worse; is created by AI in seconds.

Are there any developers out there who made a successful career switch?

Ok due to budget cuts i was asked to help develop on the iOS app even though i started out as a frontender. I started three months ago, 2/3 days every week. Now the main iOS developer quits. So no more help as from next month.
F(…)!

There is no way ChatGPT is good enough to help me out 100% either.

He is not the first one to leave this company either. He’s nr 5 this month. This is serious guys. Wish me luck!

Just heard that we don’t have testers anymore. There was already a low test capacity and now it’s full focus on clients and not on software building anymore.
Who needs testers any way right?
We need to just do everything right the first time!

Every day hour minute i have to work on these charts im getting more sad frustrated and annoyed.
I have a function which works perfectly in the mobile versie of the webapp. Copy paste it to the desktop, it’s not working. Something is wrong and i can’t get my head around it. Neither does AI.

Kendo is hell.

I was asked to work more in the backend. I came in as a frontender/ux’er. Had to do one small thing in mvc and now everyone is like whaaat, he likes that? Let’s make him the new ios developer. Yes!
*One of us! One of us! One of us!*

Meanwhile i’m going like, sure i like a challenge and i have a curious attitude but i had a tremendous amount of help from a coworker here?

Just got a call by the ceo asking me 1 or 2 weeks before my contract is. Prolonged wether i’m up for developing along in Swift for the iOS app. Im a frontender who was struggling with #C mvc lately and now this…

So im a frontend developer. Yet i get an issue on my plate regarding a 504 error. Maybe i should ask whst css file this is part of. My god im looking into this for over an hour now…

We’re in the week before the release, a time where we should only fix things from feedback and errors before we go to production. My colleague somehow always takes this opportunity to build in completely new stuff that cause my whole schedule to be f’d up. Fuck you buddy. This is on you

I feel like such a failure… couple of months i got this functionality to work. Now we need to copy it in a slightly different way and i just can not get it to work. Aaaargh

New year, new salary. My mind doesn’t comprehend the total world of difference between the toxic environment i was in, and the positive place i’m at now.

Just saw new designs for this new screen. Everything is totally different then everything we’ve build so far. Seriously dude. WHY?! Why can’t you keep at least the buttons the same as before?

Still struggling with the whole webpack project. We agreed on just doing style for now. (Which also need to be updated but that a whole other drama)

Fucking hate my life right now. Its 16:00 so time for beer and games. And holidays. Have a good holidays here everyone. I cant wait to come back to this shit in 2025.

I thought to implement nmp and webpack for this project. I didnt take in account the difficulty level. Bundling the scss is fine, but the scripts are hell. There are so many. And there not small either, no there are script with 60+ functions and they all need to be available globally.
How this is working in the first place is already a mystery. This has been taking multiple days now and i’m so very fucking tired with it.

So im working on a bot. The response of the bot wasn’t correct according to colleague a. So i fixed the response. Now i have a virtual directoy and the response is wrong again. Meanwhile i fixed issue b where the template path wasn’t correct so i fixed that as well. Then i got a merge conflict because i fixed 2 problems in one file in two different branches. So i fixed that. Then feedback came on issue b so we fixed that again. Now my response is fucked completely because the agent isn’t defined i don’t have a clue why. If i ever find out the output probably still isn’t correct either and even if it was i probably get feedback which fucks everything up again.

My god i landed in development hell

Im running into a wall of stupidity again. I have to work with kendo and fix chat functionality. Not a clue what i’m doing or how to implement functionality and documentation is shit. How am i gonna survive this deadline :( trial and error is not the way to go that’s for sure

Im trying to fix a sass build in my current project and it’s just hell. I got 65k lines of output and 2 errors. Where those errors are coming from is impossible to find out since the terminal only displays 10k lines. Aaargh i’ve tried everything!

I have this ux intern next to me and like every programmer i’m cursing on my code daily and she made a remark today like: it never works for you does it?

-_-‘ SHUTUP!

So im facing my first real js challenge in this job and i feel so stupid. I just cant seem to make this work. Fuuuuuk.

This project is frontend hell.

We have a dark theme and a light theme. Light is the default but not for mobile. For mobile the dark theme is the default. And if we dont like something we just create a overwrite css. And if that one isnt working we just create yet another overwrite file. And !importants. They are important to make sure things are working.

The we use this framework, but not for mobile. No mobile is just custom jQuery.

Ow and of course separately from the mobile version we need a iOS app. An app which totally differs from the mobile version because we want users to use this now.

So im through my trial period at my new job. I’m a bit surprised by how positive everyone is about me and my work so far. Especially since i feel i haven’t really contributed that much yet. I hope they’ll stay this positive but wouldnt be surprised if it isnt that case anymore after 12 months.

I always hate how colleages talk behind each others backs. There is someone leaving, supposedly because of travel distance. And one of the first things i heard was something along the lines that they are surprised it was still his own choice to leave.

I started my brand new job last monday. Very nice people so far but tbh im already hesitating if this business isnt too backend minded for a frontender like myself. I do have a lotttt to learn the coming weeks. Lets see how i hold up my small share of this bigger company with it’s daunting piece of software.

I worried i would be jobless for six months. Ok i applied at at least 20 different companies but i’m only jobless for two weeks now =D

Is it just me or is anyone else not feeling very welcome if they have a jobinterview but the person doing the interview isn’t smiling the tiniest bit even. Just dead seriousness.

The final verdict is out. After almost 3.5 years im getting fired. Im relieved because i’ve been expecting this already since december. No matter how hard i try my mistakes aren’t excepted anymore.
Good thing there are three other companies i have interviews with.
Let’s hope for a new offer and smooth transition soon!

I know i signed a contract that prevents me from doing anything bad to the company I’m currently working at but… Hypothetically, in how much trouble would i be if i, let’s say, leak a bunch of passwords or credentials to some websites or servers?
Like would i be arrested? Would i have to pay a fine? Anyone who ever did such a thing?

Im not involved in any projects at all anymore. My direct collegae is planned fully for the coming months. It’s clear everyone just wants to get rid of me.
If i ask the teamlead for feedback i dont get any.
If i ask the manager for feedback i get to hear he talked to the lead but he has no time to talk with me.

Giving me a compliment hurted his guts. Ive spend weeks just documenting bullshit.

All im allowed is to help out with tiny annoying tasks and i need to do them 10000% perfect. I’m a human, i’m not perfect. I accept the fact i’m not and so should they.

I did it. I sold my soul to the devil and contacted a recruiter myself. He helped me find a new challenge 5 years ago, maybe he can do that trick again.

First you’re telling me my work always needs to be 1000% perfect and complete, next thing you’re saying everyone makes mistakes and you need the mistakes so you can learn from them.

I’m getting mixed signals here

Ow surprise surprise, ofcourse i don’t get any kind of salary increase at this fucking shit company im working at. Because nobody see’s the work i actually do and everyone is just guessing im eating out of my nose all day.
Seriously, i had to work 1.5 jobs because a colleage left but there is no credit for anything i do here. Friday im going to contact recruiters. Fk this shit!

I thought i was being kinda layed off before my holidays. Truth is the workload is to busy right now to get rid of me. We’re 2 weeks of holidays further so things doesn’t seem as black as before but the chaos that started it all is back for sure. Ow well. Just have to learn to live with it i guess.

I did apply for functions elsewhere and already had a first interview. We’ll see how that turns out!