Stack Overflow: 79% of Developers Considering a Career Move

This seems more like a social commentary about job satisfaction for the career at almost 80%, but I suspect the pattern of movement that the “only way to get a significant salary upgrade is to switch jobs” is the secret pressure. There are a LOT of disincentives to moving right now, especially with coast housing stock being at record cost <i>and</i> such low levels. Add to the fact that employers seem to be having a great time laying everyone off, and you have a powder keg for dissatisfaction.

I&#x27;m just one data point, but after quitting a 12-year position writing RFID related apps, I&#x27;m raising chickens and writing.<p>There are no jobs for me; even for positions that totally align with my skills, the employers express no interest. For one thing, they get hundreds of applicants per posting. For another, DEI.<p>One nice thing--my old employer is hiring me back on a consulting basis. Meanwhile, I&#x27;m retraining and looking into side hustles, AI-related opportunities, manufacturing (a lifelong interest).<p>Technology as a career is not dead, but it has significantly downsized and is no longer a guaranteed job.

This tells you something: It&#x27;s shitty everywhere and moving employers will most likely just get you a new set of problems.

my two cents (from personal experience): Getting money when you are from low SES is not that stimulating, because the money is inevitably spent on mundane purchases: i.e. buying a new pair of school shoes or school supplies, or beef instead of chicken for a meal that week, or fixing your car.<p>If that money would be able to be spent on anything that the child desired, then I am sure that even a lower-SES would be more excited.<p>I fundamentally believe that the higher-SES you are, the more agency you have (especially financial), where lower-SES are in constant survival mode. It is hard to get excited by small sums of money when you know that it will just be immediately spent on boring things.

Well duh. It’s shitty everywhere. Might as well keep my options open and do shitty work for more pay at the next place.

(2023)