I sometimes talk about how I'd find a data science job depressing if the purpose of it was something I disagreed with
but looking at the data and the models and realizing that for a happy future we need to take a drastically different course like ... years ago is pretty depressing too
@Maenad it sounds literal to me, a person currently managing the effect her reading list has on her mental health.
@Maenad this toot hits very close to home... I used to work as a web analyst for a big corporation and it felt terrible, both because the amount of tracking and re-targeting was frankly appalling and because the only purpose of my job was to sell more stuff to people to boost profits. I quit the job and never looked back.
@Antanicus it's cool to hear that, to be honest
I took a different path. I earn shit to say stuff no one listens to about how to make the world a better place. Getting institutional pushback on that and just seeing the inertia is horrifying
@Maenad ouch, that must feel terrible... :(
a meta take on this is I don't know if it's ableist to use the word depressing like I did here
but as someone who more or less behaviorally manages her depression I kinda mean it literally