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> I make stupid decisions reacting to those feelings.

Yea it seems like the right thing to do is to step away and take a sabbatical to cool down, and then remember that we like money, and that it's just part of the game to get paid.

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Keep playing a wicked game whose rules are stacked against you for the shiny trophy. I’ll see you in therapy in a few years.
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The person who told you you'd forever have a job working in tech lied.
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I guess another bit of advice is to do whatever you need to do to avoid ending up talking like this.
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I mean the grandparent poster isn’t wrong. This whole system is stacked against us.

It’s difficult to keep moving knowing that we don’t have the ability to opt out of the way our whole society works. This is a very broad discussion that I know has many different facets to it, but the grandparent poster seems to be calling out what a lot of people believe is true.

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Oh, the seven year itch. I didn't think it would apply to work, but it makes sense that it would.
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Do those cycles happen to correspond with the tech market crashes? =)
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No, my last one happened at a market peak.
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