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Ask HN: What decisions have you made out of bitterness?
I'm a really bitter and jaded engineer, but I've always made the ethical and moral choice, which cost me many millions of dollars when I got fired for protecting a female employee from a predator at a conference after the CEO refused to do his job.
As I near the end of my career, the cumulative effect of the shit I've seen in this industry, and my disappointment in humanity since 2016, I'm about to break my own moral code, and take an incredibly lucrative gig at a defense contractor building a platform of multi-purpose, highly reconfigurable drones.
2010's me would have starved before even returning the recruiter's e-mail, now I'm strangely OK with it. Knowing that my work will help kill russian soldiers and defend Ukraine even makes me kind of proud.
Bitterness really changed me. I'm curious, how has it changed you?