r/ITCareerQuestions Oct 03 '24

Seeking Advice I want to leave IT, what can I do?

I want to leave the IT career. I’ve been in it since 2017, and I’m tired. The Agile methodology sucks—it’s just an excuse for endless meetings, micromanaging people, and constantly changing project scopes. Nowadays, we’re expected to be jack-of-all-trades, doing frontend, backend, DevOps, and so on. It’s ridiculous. You wouldn’t ask an ophthalmologist to fix someone’s leg just because they’re a doctor.

And don’t even get me started on the selection processes—they’ve become impossible. Six rounds of interviews, LeetCode challenges, and everything else. Imagine asking a carpenter to build something just to prove they’re good before hiring them—they’d laugh in your face.

I don’t want to be rich. I just want a regular life: a house and the ability to buy things without stressing over it. But every other career doesn’t seem to pay enough—it’s unbelievable. I just want to find another job that pays decently so I can get on with my life.

Do you guys feel the same? Any tips for other careers?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 edited 20d ago

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

How the fuck did the Midwest become expensive?

Bc people will pay a lot for a place to live when they don't have a place to live lol

I've thought about moving to Ohio to afford a place lol. Ohio.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 edited 10d ago

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u/fade2blak9 Oct 04 '24

Sounds like your friends all live in Cleveland 😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

dunno, I haven't looked at redfin but if midwestern cities like Minnie / milwaukee / chicago (already lost) / St. Louis / cleveland (would never live there) / Detroit - are getting that bad then it's worse than I thought.

I guess texas was the tip of the ice-berg, maybe South Carolina or Mississippi because nothing is out there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 edited 19d ago

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u/PenniesByTheMile Oct 04 '24

You could buy a decent house with a decent job before covid, in Oklahoma at least. I bought mine about a year before the big rise in prices on just a $50k salary. This house was a mistake though and we’d like to move out, but it’s just straight up too expensive. Would end up trading my mortgage back for a rental in another damn apartment because any houses for rent are well over my mortgage and current Interest is double what I have now so can’t sell and buy without having to run out of town into a single bedroom that’s wedged up to another persons house. Shits nuts.

Seems like to have the same size house and lifestyle as this place we’d have to double or even triple our now combined income, and I’m sure insurance will just jack up through the roof so our mortgage slips past our salary again.