golden handcuffs? i'm not quite sure how to ask this…
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golden handcuffs?
i'm not quite sure how to ask this without sounding ungrateful in a recognizably tenuous job market, but... any design folks working in tech feeling disconnected, unfulfilled, or fatigued with the work, culture, mission, leadership, churn of restructuring but also feeling like your being a little B for even complaining? i'm really blessed to be working for a thriving tech company, but career growth has come to a complete halt in the past 2+ years despite successes, having continuous work is regularly disrupted with multiple reorgs, design culture and team morale feels generally performative, and i really miss feeling like i'm contributing actual goodness to the world.
is this growing pains, typical corp BS, or just the current times? any advice from seasoned designers who got lost in everything BUT the work, and found a way to focus their career on creating things that were inspiring and impactful again? the golden handcuffs are real bc cost of living is no joke, but i truly feel like a cog in a machine that will have nothing creative to really show at the end (going on 7+ years) – just lots of stories about relationship management bc i spend most of my time re-litigating fundamental design principles.
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i'm not quite sure how to ask this without sounding ungrateful in a recognizably tenuous job market, but... any design folks working in tech feeling disconnected, unfulfilled, or fatigued with the work, culture, mission, leadership, churn of restructuring but also feeling like your being a little B for even complaining? i'm really blessed to be working for a thriving tech company, but career growth has come to a complete halt in the past 2+ years despite successes, having continuous work is regularly disrupted with multiple reorgs, design culture and team morale feels generally performative, and i really miss feeling like i'm contributing actual goodness to the world.
is this growing pains, typical corp BS, or just the current times? any advice from seasoned designers who got lost in everything BUT the work, and found a way to focus their career on creating things that were inspiring and impactful again? the golden handcuffs are real bc cost of living is no joke, but i truly feel like a cog in a machine that will have nothing creative to really show at the end (going on 7+ years) – just lots of stories about relationship management bc i spend most of my time re-litigating fundamental design principles.
#art
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