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You are not giving the writer enough charity with your interpretation. Almost every single programmers I personally know around his age shares the sentiment. Ra
by NhanH 11y ago
You are not giving the writer enough charity with your interpretation. Almost every single programmers I personally know around his age shares the sentiment. Ranging from SV startup jobs to the FB/Google/Microsoft/AMZN, even some doing programming in countries half way across the world.
- jmspring 11y agoSo, a generation of entitled? Me - I stay with a job (or side project or consulting) if it is fun and I am learning something. Pick and choose accordingly. From the article -- "I write test automation to test the front-end" -- there were potentially interesting things here maybe some years ago, but he put himself into a position that frequently gets off shored and doesn't have a lot of room for growth/creativity. Really, all these entitlement 20-something posts are basically the same in general content.
- NhanH 11y agoIf you believe that there are a world-wide generation of entitled human, there is not much substance to be discussed. I read the post as simple as the field where he grew up with turned out to be a much different thing in a (industrialized?) setting.
- Apocryphon 11y agoWe live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and productivity. Why shouldn't we be entitled?
- tomreece 11y agoI didn't know if I'd like testing or not. But I thought I would try something new. Comparing my daily work with the coders around me, I still think I'd pick testing because they literally just glue too many shitty api's together into an AngularJS application.