nixCraft 🐧
My first day as a software developer: “I am going to change the world.”
Ten years later: “I am lost and difficult to keep up with the current trends. I want to keep it simple.”
Fifteen years later: “I am tired, lost faith in the world and now want to work as a carpenter.”
gibeath
@nixCraft There's hope. If you stare into the abyss of infosec for long enough, you realize that everything is so broken... that things only work because people are mostly good 😂
mikeTesteLinux
@nixCraft So true, but I'm not at the last step yet. Fortunately? dunno yet
selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪
@nixCraft I bailed at about 25 years. 17 of those years under constant threat of layoffs. The layoffs happened just not to me. Just a constant grind. Lucky/unlucky I guess. There ought to be some version of the Kübler-Ross model of grief for SW developers...
Anyway carpentry sounds much less stressful and satisfying. 🤔
Terminhell
@nixCraft I thought we were going to be goose ranchers
Jonathan M.
@nixCraft from my small amateur experience as an electrical engineer, chasing trends shouldn't be a part of your job. You never really need to stray very far from the foundations, but your job instead is to figure out how apply those foundations to new situations.
When I hear people talk about software engineering though, it sounds nothing like my experience with engineering. I begin to wonder if software engineering really should be called engineering.
HowToPhil (Phillip R)
@nixCraft Either you have free will and thus every decision you make changes the entire cosmos by swaying the mechanics of reality... or you don't have free will and never could have changed anything that wasn't actually changing you anyway?
Chris from Earth
Fuckin A
eighthourlunch
@nixCraft I see you've found my journals.
some random dude
@nixCraft 38 years later, still have the passion for coding, but can only express that passion with personal projects. Professional work is a grind but pays very well. My key takeaway? I’m still seeing the new guys make the same mistakes I made as noob. We’re not progressing as a profession, just creating new frameworks and languages.
Brian Levy
@nixCraft Replace software developer with designer and this is me.
David W. Jones
@nixCraft
A few years into teaching, where he was trying to change the world, a friend quit teaching and became a carpenter. He makes more money now, and changes the world by building houses.
Try it - you might like it! 😁
@n69n
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