Bluesky

I used to work at wal-mart in their tire center. That was the happiest I've ever been at a job. I was good at it, it wasn't too challenging but oddball things happened often enough to make it interesting, I got to BS with my co-workers all day and spend time outside when it was nice out. The only problem was it didn't pay.

The job I have now pays better than anything else I've found by a lot (still can't afford a house) but I hate pretty much every aspect of it. It's almost entirely playing the middle man on a bunch of different projects between users and vendors doing interpersonal shit that I hate dealing with and yet, am still somehow better at than most of my peers... It's not like it's hard work, it's just emailing and phone calls and meetings all day and most of the difficulty comes with the bean counters and c-levels changing course spontaneously without regard for what we're currently working on.

If myself and people like me didn't have to force ourselves into these positions out of desperation I think a lot of them would disappear, or at least be left to the middle management types that thrive on feeling like they're in charge of things and leave us to do the technical shit that we're made for.