I was at school and here in France we can follow courses and have a job at the same time (sort of a part time job). I was in my first year and I was still in a learning process. I found a company for two years. I though that it was gonna be all fun and games learning and applying my skills but I had lesser and lesser time to learn (their codebase was at 95% from my own work and research and they were here just to tell me what to do after each features). I was literally on my own. The head of the IT department was here one day if not less per week. I was here 2/3 days and it was really hard to follow. The quality of work I produced was decreasing as I lost passion and joy to do my work. There was this constant pressure and I was just afraid to say no because I was young and unexperienced. Turns out just before the end of the two years I met someone on LinkedIn that was happy to talk about my work and what I wanted to do. He wanted to see me and after the interview we've had he really wanted me for my curiosity and my passion. It was like in a game where one of your teammate cast a spell to revive you after your death. I decided to take a deep breath and start saying no to the pressure I had at work. Things didn't end up well but I finally managed to quit my job which was a huge success for me. Now I get to do my job in a happy work place where humans are put before work, I can make proposals of technologies I want to work with and I'm actually more productive than in my previous job where they though that they could enforce they power on me to produce each time more. And I'm learning a lot of new things every now and then and they push me toward this learning process.
If I can give you an advice: learning to be happy is one of the hardest thing to do but you'll do yourself a favor by doing that. We all deserve it.
I was at school and here in France we can follow courses and have a job at the same time (sort of a part time job). I was in my first year and I was still in a learning process. I found a company for two years. I though that it was gonna be all fun and games learning and applying my skills but I had lesser and lesser time to learn (their codebase was at 95% from my own work and research and they were here just to tell me what to do after each features). I was literally on my own. The head of the IT department was here one day if not less per week. I was here 2/3 days and it was really hard to follow. The quality of work I produced was decreasing as I lost passion and joy to do my work. There was this constant pressure and I was just afraid to say no because I was young and unexperienced. Turns out just before the end of the two years I met someone on LinkedIn that was happy to talk about my work and what I wanted to do. He wanted to see me and after the interview we've had he really wanted me for my curiosity and my passion. It was like in a game where one of your teammate cast a spell to revive you after your death. I decided to take a deep breath and start saying no to the pressure I had at work. Things didn't end up well but I finally managed to quit my job which was a huge success for me. Now I get to do my job in a happy work place where humans are put before work, I can make proposals of technologies I want to work with and I'm actually more productive than in my previous job where they though that they could enforce they power on me to produce each time more. And I'm learning a lot of new things every now and then and they push me toward this learning process.
If I can give you an advice: learning to be happy is one of the hardest thing to do but you'll do yourself a favor by doing that. We all deserve it.
Thanks for sharing your story. It must have been quite difficult,glad this passed. I agree, we all try to be happy at work.
Also knowing when to say NO also it's a way to be happy!
I avoided a stressful time on a company as you did by just saying NO.
You are absolutely right. It may be silly when you think about it but as for some people it is a real life struggle.