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The difference is the type of stress, the mental effort, and the expectations. At the end of a hard day in the kitchen I'm ready to go hang out with friends an
by sheepmullet 10y ago
The difference is the type of stress, the mental effort, and the expectations.
At the end of a hard day in the kitchen I'm ready to go hang out with friends and enjoy my free time.
At the end of a hard day as a software dev I can hardly string a sentence together and want to go be by myself.
Likewise in the kitchen I didn't get given completely unrealistic timeframes. As long as I focused and worked hard it was all good.
As a software dev I constantly have pressure to perform miracles and hit unrealistic deadlines from all sides. And the pressure is cumulative. If I have a bad day today I'm going to have to work extra hard and under more pressure the rest of the week to catch up.
If the food services industry paid as well as software dev I'd go back in a heartbeat.
- skybrian 10y agoSeems like you're describing the experience of being a worker? I expect someone starting their own restaurant has a whole new set of worries.
- beachstartup 10y agowe're talking about workers, not management/ownership. e.g. like at apple, vice president in your title means the excuses stop mattering. it's your job to fix it, or you're fired, end of story.
- agumonkey 10y agoThat's most of what I tried to express earlier about the difference between dev/eng and "production" work. Being in the blur and under pressure, without moving targets around and under your feets that creeps in your life seems to be prevalent in the former way more than in the later (even though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12987866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12987866 tells a different story too).