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First world problems :) I'm grateful for the opportunity to work from home, support my family comfortably, be in a field with lots of employment opportunities

First world problems :) I'm grateful for the opportunity to work from home, support my family comfortably, be in a field with lots of employment opportunities to fall back on, and be constantly learning new stuff. Sorry it didn't work out for you, but it sounds like you found other interests to occupy you and (hopefully) support you, e.g. fantasy/scifi writing.

outworlder 11y ago
> Sorry it didn't work out for you What? The author was in the field for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS!
- mcv 11y ago
  38 years should be enough to deserve some retirement.
- blisterpeanuts 11y ago
  Unless I missed it, she didn't say for how many of those 38 years that programming sucked, though. Her examples of suckiness were all from just a few years ago. Anyway, that's a potentially long time to be doing something you don't enjoy.
  - deirdresm 11y ago
    That's a difficult question. Essentially, some part of any job sucks. Even within a given field, some jobs and/or projects will suck more than others. Some tools and languages suck more for certain applications than for others. I've always enjoyed—and still enjoy—the technical aspects of programming. Since this just came in my email…. "Working at $FIRM offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, challenging, startup environment with a team of passionate individuals who love bringing ideas to life. At $FIRM, no role is small and every person plays a part in the development of our game-changing technology." fast-paced = you won't have time to think to solve the problems better challenging = no one knows how to behave themselves, least of all the founders startup environment = so forget reasonable workweeks and having any time on weekends team of passionate individuals = they don't have lives, either no role is small = you will be assigned roles that the last person quit over because it was so trivial That's the kind of thing I'm done with.
    - blisterpeanuts 11y ago
      You might find freelancing more appealing than these kinds of full time jobs as you describe.
gozo 11y ago
Yes, you and everyone else. That's why I don't do that much software anymore either. People are happy with a paycheck rather than to do good work and be proud over that. Then they sit on HN and criticize every other field they know even less about.
- blisterpeanuts 11y ago
  "People are happy with a paycheck..." Hm, a rather cynical comment. It seems to me there are lots of highly enthusiastic participants on HN, and I'm blown away by how knowledgeable they are in many other fields as well--the sciences, culinary arts, music, sports.... It's quite a diverse crowd. It's safest to not generalize... ;)

outworlder 11y ago

> Sorry it didn't work out for you What? The author was in the field for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS!

mcv 11y ago
38 years should be enough to deserve some retirement.
blisterpeanuts 11y ago
Unless I missed it, she didn't say for how many of those 38 years that programming sucked, though. Her examples of suckiness were all from just a few years ago. Anyway, that's a potentially long time to be doing something you don't enjoy.
- deirdresm 11y ago
  That's a difficult question. Essentially, some part of any job sucks. Even within a given field, some jobs and/or projects will suck more than others. Some tools and languages suck more for certain applications than for others. I've always enjoyed—and still enjoy—the technical aspects of programming. Since this just came in my email…. "Working at $FIRM offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, challenging, startup environment with a team of passionate individuals who love bringing ideas to life. At $FIRM, no role is small and every person plays a part in the development of our game-changing technology." fast-paced = you won't have time to think to solve the problems better challenging = no one knows how to behave themselves, least of all the founders startup environment = so forget reasonable workweeks and having any time on weekends team of passionate individuals = they don't have lives, either no role is small = you will be assigned roles that the last person quit over because it was so trivial That's the kind of thing I'm done with.
  - blisterpeanuts 11y ago
    You might find freelancing more appealing than these kinds of full time jobs as you describe.

gozo 11y ago

Yes, you and everyone else. That's why I don't do that much software anymore either. People are happy with a paycheck rather than to do good work and be proud over that. Then they sit on HN and criticize every other field they know even less about.

blisterpeanuts 11y ago
"People are happy with a paycheck..." Hm, a rather cynical comment. It seems to me there are lots of highly enthusiastic participants on HN, and I'm blown away by how knowledgeable they are in many other fields as well--the sciences, culinary arts, music, sports.... It's quite a diverse crowd. It's safest to not generalize... ;)