To be honest, I have no idea how to start such posts. When I was studying at university, there was an idea in my head. It was about “where I have to be in 1–1.5 years” (as a software developer).

For context, I started programming at 13, doing some calculations for physics at school. At the moment I’m writing about, I was around 20 years old. I did it every day, spending whatever free time I could with a computer. It was like a magic world for me, where I could hide and do whatever I wanted, and no one could tell me anything.

It was a pretty funny time. I was a student with some side developer work that didn’t take up much time. I did whatever I wanted, built tools that I was interested in, created a bunch of crappy programming languages, wrote some shitty “blog posts” about coding, etc. I was doing it for joy and fun. It was the best part of programming. But I didn’t understand it back then.

So, let’s return to this idea in my head. I thought that I had to constantly grow my career as a developer. Non-stop coding interviews, changing jobs for better offers every 6–10 months, working hard for 10–12 hours a day. Not for fun, but for my career.

At the time, I thought this was cool: making things that were “useful” for someone at my corporate job, doing things that somebody needed. It was the “right” thing for a developer to do. I was glad that someone needed my code, that someone was USING it. Those things were constantly on my mind.

At some point, I found a second full-time job. This period continued for around four years. I was just coding non-stop, almost every day, until early 2026 (I had turned 24 by that point), without taking a single vacation.

At that point, I felt that something was wrong, that I couldn’t feel almost anything. I had no interest in coding, writing, or reading about tech. I wasn’t interested in any conferences, publications, and so on and so forth. I felt sick of all of it.

I looked deeply within myself, read some classics and philosophy, and started living a different life rather than staring at a black screen for 8–12 hours a day.

There are some things that came to my mind during this period:

• Prefer doing things only for enjoyment. Anything else goes straight to the trash. You live your life only once, so make it as joyful as possible.
• Any word, sentence, or paragraph containing “corporate” or any synonym, with some positive adjective nearby, is pure bullshit designed to create a new slave workforce. Anyone who defends corporations is your personal enemy (low-key a moron).
• Work is only needed to trade your time for money. In current society, there is no point in working “for other people”. The only thing you’re doing when you work is making someone rich while they ride on your neck.
• Prepare to work alongside incompetent morons. These guys and girls, who have the IQ of some dumbass insect, will work beside you, and you will have to listen to their “opinions” during meetings. Sometimes, they will tell you what to do and how to do it because they somehow became bosses in this corporate hierarchy. There are also those lovely people occupying bullshit jobs. (You will be considered a toxic person if you call some dumb-ass, no-expertise asshole a dumb-ass, no-expertise asshole.)
• Most of your co-workers know shit about what they’re doing. Nowadays, a lack of competence has become a normal thing. Just read the tech side of Twitter. I promise you’ll slap yourself in the face a couple of times.
• Learn deeply and gain real knowledge. Read foundational books not how to use the Spring Boot or React frameworks to make another CRUD app. Learn them deeply. Learning actual things will open your eyes to something: you’ll see how incompetent some people are at what they do. ALSO, they never want to work, they don’t do their work to an any-acceptable level, and they just don’t care.

In general, I hate almost all IT people out there. It has become a mainstream place to earn money, and because of this, the number of people in the industry has increased AF.

What does this mean? It means that the average expertise of software engineers has fallen into the deep end. An industry that should be filled with people who love computers is now filled with dickheads who want to “rush” programming for a couple of months and get a $5k offer.

Another thing is corporations. Everything that happens here happens for money. Money, in a vacuum, is a very convenient thing. Trading five hours of your life for enough food to live for five days sounds nice, until that money ends up in the hands of some 10-IQ asshole who thinks only about how to increase the amount of money he has.

With such morons around you and above you, willing to accumulate an infinite amount of money just to buy a new Rolex, car, or other useless bullshit, we will stagnate.

I’m not talking about the IT industry anymore. It’s more about the world itself.

For now I’ve returned interest to computer by doing project that im interested in. It’s a game with small engine that brings me a joy and fun while Im developing it.

I don’t know how to finish such post, so - I’ve sad everything that I wanted to say I suppose or not lol…

Whole text is hand written - except of one thing, I’ve asked a LLM to fix the grammar for me. Im not that good for this moron-english thing called a language LoL. In your language long sentences are not recommended, which makes me feel funny. It’s okay for programming and scientific things - but for thoughs kinda terrible way to think.