For the first job (2 years), i was unpaid for like 2-3 months. For the second (4 years) It was burnout, or depression or not sure which one first. The culture was great, it was a startup, but there're simply things I couldn't care doing at all, like impossibly trying to scale the product when it no longer can (so limited by legacy codes, project size, business requirement, the more feature it has, the harder it is to scale horizontally). During the last 3 months of my second job, I delivered a theme customization engine very similar to shopify liquid myself (with twig as templating engine), API services (with league/oauth2), and worked the mobile app with a designer which consume the APIs. But it was the last and most effort I put for a company.
Been jobless for almost 2 years now, and gonna find a new job soon, as I am running out of saving. But this time, I'll just have rules and terms I can live with. I realized that I shouldn't have any stake or put any hope in doing even something that I like. Back then I was just too passionate about many things, I would've overworked myself for a project which no one gonna remembers years later. I was just too attached to projects or works, and when there's none, there's just this nullity and void, then I realized i haven't been taking care for myself for long.
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For the first job (2 years), i was unpaid for like 2-3 months. For the second (4 years) It was burnout, or depression or not sure which one first. The culture was great, it was a startup, but there're simply things I couldn't care doing at all, like impossibly trying to scale the product when it no longer can (so limited by legacy codes, project size, business requirement, the more feature it has, the harder it is to scale horizontally). During the last 3 months of my second job, I delivered a theme customization engine very similar to shopify liquid myself (with twig as templating engine), API services (with league/oauth2), and worked the mobile app with a designer which consume the APIs. But it was the last and most effort I put for a company.
Been jobless for almost 2 years now, and gonna find a new job soon, as I am running out of saving. But this time, I'll just have rules and terms I can live with. I realized that I shouldn't have any stake or put any hope in doing even something that I like. Back then I was just too passionate about many things, I would've overworked myself for a project which no one gonna remembers years later. I was just too attached to projects or works, and when there's none, there's just this nullity and void, then I realized i haven't been taking care for myself for long.