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I relate to this strongly. Many of us in this field feel catfished by our jobs. We took the role to get access to exciting emerging tech, or to fulfill some useful purpose and apply strategic thinking. Instead the reality of the day to day is business-led bullshit, drudgery of ticket work for issues affecting one user (and its probably a problem they caused), or having to report progress and "green" status to some talentless PM who doesn't give a shit about you or your career. That and meetings. And fires and escalations and technical bridges.
I knew exactly what I was getting into. Office space, dead end job, doing the same shit every day, putting out dumb fires. What ever, I’m just doing it for the paycheck, so I can sometimes have fun outside of work