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100% true. I use IRC for work and I have that feeling every single day.

I would say this 1999 vibe is caused by smartphone and the "issues" that XMPP and IRC have with multiple clients for the same account. But it's a pity that, instead of improving those protocols, now we have to deal with multiple clients for multiple services.

Why people understand that you can use email with whatsoever client you want, but no with chats?

Spaniard here. If you live in Madrid/Barcelona, try to find a new position in a smaller city. I don't see myself living there.

In my opinion, if you are losing your motivation, maybe your guts are not the best advice you should follow. I always try to take risky decisions when I feel comfortable with the current situation.

In my case, I didn't find a medication that suits me, but I was diagnostic recently so it's an ongoing process.

The only two things that (almost) works for me at this moment are a notebook (I use a modified version of bullet journal) and meditation (I use headspace).

Apart from that: sleep. That helps with the weird depression-like mood I always have.

  Location: Spain
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe.
  Technologies: Go, Python, Docker, Ansible, and AWS among other things
  Résumé/CV: Currently working as DevOps for a fortune 500 company. Send me an email and I'll be more than happy to send my CV or my LinkedIn.
  Email: uun6pmsqhesef9gnuczekx955xbb5g@api.pushover.net (Disposable account, don't want spam)

Mojave is working like a charm. No more burned fingers while typing, and the battery is lasting even longer in my MacBook Pro 13" 2017.

I was very sad with Sierra but now I can work with multiple VM and IntelliJ without pain in my fingers.

With C-b you have less movement, C-a moves your hand in a weird form which creates pain in the hand. Apart from that, I use only my left hand to press C-b.

C-a is the default one in Screen but as far as I remember C-b is the default one in Tmux since the beginning of the project.

C-x is a bad idea too, because is another shortcut in bash (C-x + e bring up the $EDITOR). I think C-b is a good choice.

The only thing I change in tmux is the pane and windows number (I prefer to start in 1 instead of 0 because I can type with less movement).

A few years ago, without any previous symptoms, I wake up from a nap and everything looked gray.

I talked with my girlfriend about that (never with my parents, maybe I feel ashamed? ) and I talked with a professional. It helps a lot. Seriously. Go.

Few other things that work for me:

* Sleep. Man, just sleep. After two days without proper sleep, I feel like crap. Exactly with all those things that you said in mind.

* Food. No candies. Bananas are amazing.

* I fucking love coffee. But I tried not to abuse.

* Write things down. Tasks? Write them. Feelings? Write them too. Check tasks in a paper have something that helps me feel like I accomplished something. And try to do small tasks, break things into chunks. It's something very very very hard for me, but it works.

* Get angry. Really. Be mad at something. Be bordered by something. Hate something. And try to express those feelings (without being an asshole of course). Example: If someone sent me an email that I found stupid, I talk about that with my coworkers. I don't know why but makes me feel like I care about things.

* And disconnect. I used to be hyper-connected. Now I tried to minimize the number of things that I read, I don't use twitter either facebook anymore. If something does not add value to my life, I tried to avoid it.

I work with a T460 (my employer only works with Lenovo laptops). Oh my God, I'll never buy one for myself. After a year, the battery last like 2 hours and the touchpad is shit. The only cool thing it is the dock. This is my second Lenovo laptop and no again, thanks.

I work for a fortune 500 company.

We want to automate everything but we fight against the odds. In fact, I work with people that "don't believe in automation". I don't even understand the sentence.

BTW: Docker, Ansible, an in-house tool somewhat similar to OpenStack, Go and Python.

Location: Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Why not?

Technologies: Currently working as DevOps. Linux sysadmin for the past 5 years.

Email: uwmn2rb8J7pA513sH5uRoVbu9HDfVs@api.pushover.net

Yeah, disposable email. Send me an email and we can talk :)

I was thinking about that recently. Why is so important for me the recognition of a big company? I dunno why.

The "culture" thing as you said is something weird for me. I don't see how they discover and evaluate if you fit or not. And what is necessary to fit. But I'm sure I don't want to fit if I don't fit by myself.