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my condolences you're ruined

if you can swear in your meetings (and code like I do) you might not have to adjust your workflow?

Yep. The damn meetings. smh.

It doesn't have to be! I did team lead for about 5y, then switched back to coding/designing. Most companies, esp. startup have too little coordination and you end up doing 60% coding + 60% managment and then you burn out.

this has been happening to me lately,,,, very weird feeling

Oh. Oh. Next you'll become a manager.

like 75% of my job is preemptively asking questions in meetings and finding answers so that 2 weeks later everyone has to think as little as possible about them when they actually come up

Someone save Hailey !!

I knew he had a thread somewhere! xcancel.com/jesawyer/sta...

Oh no :\

Ask for the meeting agenda and document you’ll be going over in the meeting and if there’s any specific perspective they want from you. Assuming they have those meeting basics prepared, ~30-90% of the time, you can respond with “I left my notes on the doc. Lmk if you’ve got questions.” No meeting.

It only goes downhill from here, trust me.

It’s a terminal condition

Meetings are the worst interruptions.

I'd advise against the strategy of meetings all day, coding all evening. That path leads to burnout and hospitalization. I have not found an alternative, personally, but I can tell you the hospitalization part really sucks.

Yes. Then suddenly it's oops! All meetings!

yes

been feeling this too lol miserable

Totally relate

The end is neeeear.... But not so near. Im on this transition since mid 2022, it is a really sloooooow transition (at least for me here at my job)

Time to bail and go to a new startup.

in that phase now too 😒

My condolences on your slow descent into a LinkedIn thought leader.

Oh that's just Agile and being a more senior engineer. The truest test of a senior engineer is someone who only writes one line of code a month, but that one line is a line nobody else would be trusted or know how to modify.

I've heard it morphs into "I do meetings, with occasional code reviews in-between"

Relatable. Some of my favorite days are when I actually just get to code all day lol. (This is VERY infrequent..)