Shift Your Mindset Before Quitting

This post seems somewhat light on details. You open with talking about being frustrated by open plan offices or long commutes (things that I would categorize as major traits of a working environment, likely hard to change), but then completely ignore them in your examples of people you've helped. What is your advice to people who, for example, used to like their job but began to lose it when their office converted to open plan, or worse yet hot desking?

I’m gonna call bullshit.

If an open office sucks or the other reasons listed suck, just leave. There is a virus out there that you NEED a company to be ‘someone’ in the dev world. This is a lie.

Med > big > bigger companies really don’t care about you. That’s why they have ‘human resources’ - you are just a resource. And HR Is there only to protect the company and not you.

The best thing you can do is think for yourself and listen to your intuition. If it’s telling you “this is lame” for whatever reason, it’s in YOUR best interest to leave and do something else. Start your own company or 1 person labor of love and don’t worry about someone else’s opinion.

You have a very limited time on this planet and you should be living your life to your fullest. Not to any company’s. You’re just selling yourself short otherwise.

Well, to each their own. But I've been through numerous ordeals in my career where I pulled out all the stops to change myself or change my role in order to hang on to a company that fundamentally wasn't a fit. I regret wasting all that time. Never did I look back and feel glad that I'd tried everything. Never did any of the consequences I feared from quitting, happen. Yes, this is especially easy for programmers in a long running seller's market, but I like to think it generalizes to some degree.

Also, I immediately thought of trying to change yourself to make a romantic relationship work. Now, if you're unhappy with yourself, then by all means, change. But otherwise, I think changing yourself to make a relationship work is questionable.

not op, but google cache has a copy if the link isn't working

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4PCbv-...

> One client was feeling bored, disengaged and undervalued at his small company. His role wasn’t a particularly good fit for his strengths and he didn’t have as much responsibility as he would have liked. Through exploring his interests and strengths he proposed a change to his manager to take on more work related to the financials of the company - despite feeling that he didn’t have the formal training necessary, this was an area where he wanted to grow. Based on that conversation, he ended up taking over all financial aspects of the company and absolutely loves his new role and responsibilities.

he must have one heck of a charming personality. is fantasy corp hiring for ceo? i have no experience or relevant skills.

Let me just tl;dr this. If you aren't happy with your job, don't just quit and find another job. Evaluate why you're unhappy and see if you can adjust to or change your situation. Otherwise take some time to plan and find a job that's a better fit so you don't just stumble back into the same situation. I think the central point got missed because of the initial reaction people on HN have to marketing in general.

Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4PCbv-...

Thanks for the feedback.