Dizcorded

I’m in this exact position and I don’t know the next steps forward. I’m on a sabbatical because I burnt out after a massive project but the expectation is that I come back and lead another massive project.

I’ve yet to decide if that’s what I actually want or if there is another solution out there. Is leaving the only real solution?

At least for myself as a manager, it’s simply that I don’t have the time. There are people on my team that I care about and want to grow but I’m so fucking tired myself. I put as much as I can into teaching, but at some point it’s not my responsibility to help a person understand. Seeing this article kind of made me laugh because it’s every fear I have. I’ve only been at this for 10 years, and I’m taking a sabbatical because of the burn-out. I’ve yet to figure out if I’m exhausted or if the world just keeps taking more and more, every single year. It drives me insane to have Sr. Managers/Directors/etc. act like it’s normal to push and push and expect IC’s to grind on large, hard projects, and then immediately start on another one. Where is the R&R time? Where’s the time for MOB? Tech debt? General learning? There’s no time for anything anymore.

AI has been great as a tool, but you need humans with brainpower to operate that tool. I’ve yet to see a use case where AI has actually made my life easier. It has helped me to crank out code but I could’ve done that given time. Overall I’ve turned into a feature factory instead of having time to think about anything.

Ahh, gotcha. I appreciate the response there as I wasn't aware of that notation and even then I can't think of any time I've used a cross join. Not sure which syntax I would use personally.

This has absolutely no relevance to me but that SQL snippet just bugs the hell out of me. I can't fathom why you would do a subquery in the from section and then not utilize a join. You're just bringing 2 datasets and letting them sit side by side, why not just move the subquery to the select section? Execution plan should result the same so I guess this is just a preference thing?