Not an answer to OP, but I just wanted to say thank you for this thread (and everyone for answering).
I've been insanely burnt out by random bullshit at work, wondering why I'm even in this business to begin with, and after watching a few of these it really motivated me, brought back the old memories of wanting to build cool stuff and ideas to solve real problems (a lot of the ideas that I still hold onto), and made me realize that I'm unhappy with work because all I was doing was just people bullshit and bureaucracy bullshit every day, and not actually out there, building stuff; that I just became "yet another white collar worker" and not a hacker and an engineer.
And that has allowed to see what went wrong, and plan for how to get out of this "ditch of boring, stressful politics and human pit".
Seriously, thank you. Without this thread, I would've likely continued to slog on at work without remembering my buried ambitions.
I've been insanely burnt out by random bullshit at work, wondering why I'm even in this business to begin with, and after watching a few of these it really motivated me, brought back the old memories of wanting to build cool stuff and ideas to solve real problems (a lot of the ideas that I still hold onto), and made me realize that I'm unhappy with work because all I was doing was just people bullshit and bureaucracy bullshit every day, and not actually out there, building stuff; that I just became "yet another white collar worker" and not a hacker and an engineer.
And that has allowed to see what went wrong, and plan for how to get out of this "ditch of boring, stressful politics and human pit".
Seriously, thank you. Without this thread, I would've likely continued to slog on at work without remembering my buried ambitions.