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Why does everyone hate their job.... I love my job! Does anyone else love their job?

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u/michaelnovati posted ·
Why does everyone hate their job.... I love my job! Does anyone else love their job? I was reading through the recent top ranked posts in the sub and it was super negative and made me sad. These were the titles: [Is there no hope to start a career in software engineering without an internship?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/wwwqk3/is_there_no_hope_to_start_a_career_in_software/), [I just don’t care about the job anymore. What happened to me?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/wx3w70/i_just_dont_care_about_the_job_anymore_what/), [Verbal attacks at Work. What now?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/wwiknn/verbal_attacks_at_work_what_now/), [Post Graduation job search isn't going well and I'm under a lot of stress, worry, and concern right now because of additional situations.](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/wwu7mo/post_graduation_job_search_isnt_going_well_and_im/), [They lied. Work is harder than school](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/ww1qu6/they_lied_work_is_harder_than_school/) I graduated college in Canada in 2009. I was supposed to go straight to grad school and did a Facebook internship in Palo Alto in between. It was the best summer of my life. I was working 24/7 because I just loved what I was doing. There were just over 200 engineers and 700 employees at the company at the time so it was relatively small. I would read every single manager's weekly report to see what was happening at the company. I would look at every data dashboard daily. I opted into every single internal feature test. Just for fun I cloned the entire Feed codebase and hacked it up so we could have our own internal Facebook feed of employee activity. I was out of control! And I made lifelong friends. I didn't make it to my first day of grad school and accepted a Facebook full time offer 8 weeks into my internship. My starting salary was $85K and I didn't bother to negotiate. I stayed at Facebook for 8 years, become an E7 level principal engineer, worked on dozens of products, features, tools. I met my wife and best friends there. In 2017, I needed a break. I left and joined the fledgling startup my wife had started to help teach people who didn't know how to program, the basics of iOS to make them employable. I was fairly part time at first, but we raised some venture funding and started over by building a really cool platform from scratch to help experienced engineers grow in their careers and improve their fundamental skills. Every day I get to work with early career engineers and help them find THEIR dream jobs like I had found in Facebook many years ago now. It's extremely rewarding and fulfilling and despite being financially independent, I voluntarily work 16 hours a day (... I have to sleep) and I love it.... wouldn't want to do anything else. I would love it if people could share their stories of growth, and life changing impact and help remind us why we are all here!