Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
There is a severe workplace burnout problem in IT(especially MSPs); which when not addressed grows into bigger mental health issues and even literal sicknesses.<p>There just isn&#x27;t enough skilled IT people. The industry is immature and is bottom heavy. The top performers and seniors, are then overwhelmed with work and the business is unable to hire more senior people to reduce workload. Then the business keeps growing and eventually you get a death spiral of people quitting and making the situation worse.<p>&gt;I started asking myself questions like — &quot;Even if the projects I&#x27;m doing succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, how would it affect people?<p>IT is so inherently negative as well. In my last job 1 person and myself were the only people trying to stay positive. The other people in the office had succumb to the negativity and would even attack us for being &#x27;mr happy&#x27;. They were literally so negative that they just attacked positivity.<p>I had places where I would go onsite to resolve an emergency. I never caused the outage, I was there to help. I would still get death threats from clients. &quot;The accounting files are the server, if you lost them I&#x27;m going to go to your office and kill everyone.&quot; My employer wasn&#x27;t even their IT, their IT person quit upon discovered 2 drives dead on the raid 5 array and no backups.