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If this was a serious option I would do this in a heartbeat. The amount of exploitation that goes on in our industry is perverse, and programmers don't seem to
by Kepler-306e 10y ago
If this was a serious option I would do this in a heartbeat. The amount of exploitation that goes on in our industry is perverse, and programmers don't seem to stand up for themselves much. Even at Google, supposedly the best job out there, we get stack ranked, and Sergey pushing us to work 60 hour weeks for extended periods. Makes me wonder where I went wrong in life.
- Decade 10y agoI love this quote from Douglas Crockford: There’s something wrong with us. I used to think that everybody should learn programming. … I don’t think that anymore. I think there has to be something seriously wrong with you in order to do this work. That a normal person, once they've looked into the abyss, will say, I'm done. This is stupid. I'm going to go do something else. But not us. Because there's something really wrong with us.
- Kepler-306e 10y agoSo you're thinking the reason people don't push back much on the 60 hour week is because of a personality type that simply can't stop programming? It's possible... However there's a big difference between building something for yourself, and building something for your boss, and unfortunately I feel the difference.