@MercurialBlack @dushman it's really ironic that I would describe myself as someone who cares about my code and like putting effort into it and trying to learn the stuff I'm working with, and yet I am basically living on a poverty-tier income as a sysadmin. but I feel like the tech industry also basically filters out people like me who give a shit, because they can't stand suffering through the bullshit that the tech industry has memed itself into adopting