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I used to do a lot of incident response type stuff and I just got tired of everything being on fire 200mph gogogogo all the time. It was already pretty fast-paced and then new management rolled in and decided to 2x the metrics just to do it, and I wasn't the only one with big changes on their linkedin recently.

I realized that everyone and their mother is hiring and decided to scoot off.

Oh, and before [the ordeal] I was doing a lot of travel consulting. If it weren't for [the ordeal] I probably would have quit a lot earlier because the work-life balance was just abysmal.

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Yup that's what happened to me at my last job. The stress and lack of sleep it caused me just wasn't worth it and it showed no signs of ever getting better. When I put in my notice they insisted that all these problems were going to disappear any day now but luckily I've been doing this long enough to know better.

Same here.

To this day I still don’t understand how some businesses expect devs to troubleshoot in production in the middle of the night, and fix underlying issues the morning after.

I kinda get it, and I don’t wanna justify pointless pressuress - you are paid top percentile - there’s some expectation to work accordingly. The remaining 99% of population would do anything for such money.

One can only work 24/7 for so long, regardless of the money.

100%, happened recently to me. IR role with a SaaS vendor-focused IT strategy is pure chaos right now. Every incident of note came from these companies, and the best you can do is proactive safeguards and hope their IR team will call.

Enterprise security is perma-employment, but at a high sanity cost and uses a sense of urgency not really warranted as because if it's always bad, it's not actually bad.

I knew enough coding and comp sci to scoot off into product security and have never been happier.

I’m curios to understand why everything was constantly on fire. Was it too many deployments bringing down stuff? Or flaky infrastructure?

A mix of security incidents and operational issues at various clients. We don't develop any of the stuff we take care of.

For a sec there I couldn't tell if you were a software dev, or if you put out actual fires for a living.

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