DanUKs

I'm a mid-level software engineer, with both junior and senior developers in the team. Our new manager is super keen on delegating work to the rest of the team. I keep finding myself being dragged into a random meetings…

Make money forever? Work until you create an income yourself? Contract and retire early? What’s the goal? We make so much money very early in our careers that it’s very easy to lose track of what the end goal is.

If you find that, for whatever reason, there's a slot in the day where you can either do / ask for more company work, or work on your side projects... What do you do?

I love building and working - always have, always will. I've been programming for nearly 10 years, 5 of those professionally but the industry is literally destroying my soul and it has recently become crippling. I've…