I hate my job with an abnormal passion. I undeniably still enjoy the actual tasks I perform, but my company's mission is evil - I feel bad when I succeed at tasks. This is atrocious for me. I am, by nature, a Randian hero: I clawed my way out of a hellish upbringing through hard study and self improvement. Yet, I am in an environment where the morally correct course of action is to repeatedly fail. This is a punishment straight out of Dante's Inferno, and I am done. I do not know what my next steps are, but I will quit my job once I have them figured out.

I am haunted by the actions of the most prominent success of my field: P.J. Reddie: he developed an essential part of every modern detection algorithm today. He was disgusted with what he created and left the field. I fear that my education is worse than useless: that it might be a poisonous asset that traps me into being a perfect fit for jobs that are evil. It is like having my left hand replaced by the monkey's paw: if I use it, awful things will befall mankind. I don't know what to do here, although I do have a nice pile of money, friends, health, intelligence, mental health, and will. I am still the person who clawed his way out of a torturous hell, and I should be able to figure out how to do so again.

The niggers just refuse to click the trucks, huh? I know the feeling. I wish you all the best. Alternatively, keep collecting a paycheck but do poorly at your job and make them fire you

@AshChapelsGhost@poa.st I quiet quit like halfway through last year when my boss refused to pay our labeler.

@Xenophon@nicecrew.digital >Alternatively, keep collecting a paycheck but do poorly at your job and make them fire you That's uh plan B I'm doing the first two thirds of that now but they haven't fired me

Nations crumble when their own people sabotage institutions, not just through ineptitude. You are in a unique position to make a difference

@Xenophon@nicecrew.digital I think you don't understand the nature of the work I do. I am a rare specialist, and competent people with more than a few years of experience in my field - with publications, no less - are basically objects of fantasy. There is a man who directly talks to the upcoming President of the United States who has been trying to hire a man like me for at least a month - he has failed. I suspect there's other specialties like this too, but I can only speak for my own. The US needs specialists, and I'm about to be one less.

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com Unless you aren’t specialized in street shitting you’re not the specialist they’re looking for @Xenophon@nicecrew.digital

@Leyonhjelm@shitposter.world @Xenophon@nicecrew.digital brb heading to India for 4 years to learn how to defecate publicly so I can get a job

want to not feel bad? document everything it is you do or rather the results and what they are used for, absolutely everything, who uses it and for what, do not release it until you are no longer working on that job.

@EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st The company very likely collapses within half a year of me quitting - with one exception, development halts if anyone leaves.