Man spends entire career convincing himself the reason he keeps job hopping is because everyone else is writing crappy code.

Karl Hackerman shows up to each meeting complaining. He seems sour that he hasn’t been given the go ahead to rewrite the system in Rust. He knows a lot about bleeding edge frameworks and best practices and always seems annoyed that he can’t use them at work. He thinks it’s because everyone else has settled in to becoming wage slaves instead of striving to be the best programmers they can be. Everyone puts up with him because they know he’ll quit in six months anyway.

Karl is 47 now. Hasn’t held a job for more than a couple of years. Has mostly been freelancing lately and trying to sell books on tech and frameworks nobody cares about anymore.