[gotts]

> you never really use a lot of this stuff in most run of the mill jobs. So of course you forget it, then have to study again pre interview.

I'm wondering how software devs explain this to themselves. What they train for vs what they actually do at their jobs differ more and more with time. And this constant cycle of forgetting and re-learning sounds like a nightmare. Perhaps people burn out not because of their jobs but the system they ended up in.