Ask HN: How did you like your job in 2017?
&quot;Awful&quot; would be the first word that comes to mind.<p>I&#x27;ve spent three years at my current position at one of the &quot;big 5&quot;, and after the first 9 months there were reorgs and I haven&#x27;t been doing the things I was hired to do since. Instead I work on things that I have zero interest towards, and can feel my soul being sucked out of me daily.<p>It has gotten to the point where I cannot even imagine heading in to work each morning. My entire body and mind rejects the notion. Somehow I manage to make it in on autopilot, and pretty much autopilot throughout the day. Any acts of sentience on my part while at the office are immediately doused with reminders of how much I hate all of this, and I quickly retreat back.<p>Unfortunately, this has done nothing but cause an ever-amplifying depression spiral. At this stage I can&#x27;t even imagine trying to get another job as I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m capable of passing the whiteboard-hazing at any tech company given my current state of mind.<p>I&#x27;m just going to wither away here until the end I imagine.<p>To be fair: it&#x27;s not &quot;awful&quot; by any traditional metric - I&#x27;m not being overworked, yelled at, treated like shit, etc. But acknowledging that doesn&#x27;t help my thoughts, any.