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Wouldn't the sheer pointlessness of it all bother you after a while? If someone wanted to pay you to dig a ditch and fill it up again, for the right price, woul
by stdbrouw 11y ago
Wouldn't the sheer pointlessness of it all bother you after a while? If someone wanted to pay you to dig a ditch and fill it up again, for the right price, would you do it? I mean, I'm not trying to claim that working for that hot new startup which is going to revolutionize ___ or endlessly tweaking some megacorp's ERP system is necessarily such a boon to humanity, but still.
- saalweachter 11y agoMost things we do are a little pointless in the end. In the long run, the universe will cool to uniformly distributed inert matter, and all of our efforts will scarcely affect the distribution. I currently work at big company X doing cutting edge work on the latest rewrite of big system Y, used by millions of people each day. In five years, the next rewrite will begin, and probably within ten years every last line of code I've written will be deprecated and deleted.