> Well, it ain’t what it used to be. This year, we’re finding survey respondents are less happy in their work—the numbers are showing less happy folks and more unhappy ones

Well no shit. In the last several years I got laid off, couldn't find work for a year, took a 30% paycut between inflation and the new jobs numbers and have been thrown in on some Kubernetes role that I dont care for.

What's worse is it doesn't get better from here. There is no light on the horizon. The field is dying. Companies still aren't hiring much and all the "interesting" jobs have become 1000x more selective. I figured when I was younger I would have time to drive my career in a direction I wanted. Now it's clear there's no real future outside maybe corporate climing, which I have little interest in. Many teams leads at my current company have been made managers and they're all miserable.

Glad I'm not the only one at least.