I know it sounds stupid and obvious. Like, who wouldn't realize that? But I dove in because I liked programming and the money is great. But programming your own project for fun is really different from working with a bunch of other people to build some CRUD shit. And forcing yourself to spend hours a day thinking about software is annoying. Not to everyone, there are people who genuinely love it, but I and probably most people don't. And it's kind of asocial too. I say that as someone who actually likes his coworkers a lot and has a good time talking with them, but even then the bottom line is that I spend hours a day thinking about some stupid nuances of code, often not even my own code and its flaws but somebody else's code and its stack of architectural mistakes and abstractions piled on top of other abstractions in a desperate attempt to fix them. Spending hours a day in such an abstract mental space but without the joy of doing it for fun or for some kind of actual interesting exploration pretty much sucks and leaves me often feeling really drained and needing to just go touch grass in order to restore myself.
Besides the money, though, one of the few things I like about it is that at least my conscience is mostly clear. I could probably be having more fun doing some more social job that revolves around my verbal skills, but I'm not sure that there are many such jobs out there that both pay well and aren't basically oriented around ripping people off.
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Dude, it's the tech sector. Why don't you just make up a job for yourself?
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Lmao literally
"Just make your own job if you don't like it."
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I mean, yeah, you can just start your own company and grift some VC money.
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Kicking myself
every day I went into healthcare 
vs coding 
but I appreciate 
the job security.
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I mean it's true you can easily carve out a niche when you have 50k coworkers
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My conscience I guess, if you mean a bullshit job. Or do you mean an actually beneficial job?
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You're the one making it up?
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make a modded minecraft
server 
for your dev group 
I did that because I wanted to actually 
know the people I work with, and it's long since devolved into fricking 
with eachother in progressively more fricked up ways
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you know all that time outside work that you spend watching tv, playing vidya, or posting on this dumb site?
use that time to be social
problem solved bb ur welcome
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Honestly dude, just get a night job as a bouncer. Programming is neurodivergent, but well-paying. So it's isolating.
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imagine how many women programmers would've met in college if they hadn't chosen a sperg major haha
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This is debatable and depends on where and who you're working with. A number of dogshit abstractions encountered are designed to be job security for the person who wrote them (which can backfire when the person wants to work on a different project at the company).
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I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say
I DONT GIVE A FRICK ABOUT THE FRICKING CODE! i just want to download this stupid fricking application and use it https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock#installation
WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FRICKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. these dumbfricks think that everyone is a developer and understands code. well i am not and i don't understand it. I only know to download and install applications. SO WHY THE FRICK IS THERE CODE? make an EXE file and give it to me. STUPID FRICKING SMELLY NERDS
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you job is used to fund your living expenses for you and your family, don't look for personal fulfillment from your job look for a paycheck.
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