Career Memes

Remember when you could pull all-nighters debugging your passion project, fueled by nothing but Mountain Dew and the sheer audacity of youth? Yeah, those days are gone. Now your body starts sending shutdown signals at 8:47 PM and you're negotiating with yourself about whether that second cup of coffee is worth the insomnia. The cruel irony is that you're technically a better developer now—you know design patterns, you write tests, you actually read documentation—but your biological infrastructure has deprecated itself. Your code quality went up while your uptime went down. That's called getting older in tech, and it hits different when you realize the junior devs are still gaming till sunrise while you're scheduling your standup around your second nap.

When your colleague quits without leaving any docs and you're stuck maintaining their cursed codebase, you find yourself staring at blank pages with notes like "This page was left blank because the previous engineer quit before writing documentation." But then you flip to the next page and discover they somehow had time to write a full academic paper on "Image Transfer Protocol Delivery Methods for Sending Pocket Rocket Pictures to Tinder Matches." Complete with an abstract, keywords, and what appears to be legitimate protocol analysis (UDP, TCP, HTTP, SSL) for... optimizing dick pic delivery. The priorities here are chef's kiss . Can't document the actual production system that generates revenue, but can absolutely produce a peer-reviewed paper for EdgartsPocketRocket.com. The dedication to the wrong things is honestly impressive. Pro tip: If you're gonna rage quit, at least leave a README. Your replacement doesn't deserve this chaos.

Oh, you sweet summer child thinking your job description actually means something! Here we have a job posting that's basically describing the bare minimum requirements for being a sentient human being. Can you sit? Can you use your FINGERS? Can you comprehend SPOKEN LANGUAGE? Congratulations, you're qualified for this $86k-$130k position! The "abilities" section reads like someone asked an AI to describe what humans do, but the real kicker is they're treating basic human functions as job qualifications. "Have finger dexterity to use a keyboard" – wow, revolutionary! Next they'll require you to have the ability to breathe oxygen and blink occasionally. But wait, there's more! They threw in "paid maternity leave" at the top like it's some kind of luxury perk instead of, you know, a basic human right in most developed countries. The whole thing screams "we're going to make you do EVERYTHING that wasn't mentioned here" while pretending to be transparent. Classic corporate move – describe being alive as job requirements so they can later claim literally any task falls under your abilities. Need you to fix the office plumbing? Well, you DID say you could extend your hands in any direction!

The tech industry's favorite paradox: "Entry-level position, must have 5+ years of experience." Because apparently you should've been coding in the womb and shipped production apps during kindergarten. Recruiters out here demanding senior-level expertise for junior-level pay, then wondering why nobody's applying. It's like asking for a Lamborghini at Honda Civic prices. The job market has been doing this nonsense for years, creating impossible requirements that even the hiring managers themselves couldn't meet when they started. Pro tip: If you see this in a job posting, apply anyway. Half those "requirements" are just HR playing fantasy football with qualifications they don't understand.

The tech industry's job market in one perfect image. Nothing captures the absurdity of modern hiring like demanding someone be simultaneously fresh out of college yet somehow possessing half a decade of professional experience. It's like asking a newborn to recite their memoir. Next they'll want your GitHub contributions from the womb and internship experience from preschool. The cognitive dissonance is so strong you can practically hear the recruiter saying "entry-level position" while typing "must have architected multiple distributed systems at scale."