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being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures do
by corndoge 9y ago
being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures doing exactly the programming I always wanted to do and more. I am already bored of what can be done with computers and the entire tech culture that I grew up in and loved. it is so repetitive.
- mnm1 9y agoSo are most other jobs that pay a fraction of what programming pays. When I think of that, I'm still willing to put up with all the repetitiveness, bullshit, and literal pain of programming. Jobs suck. Otherwise they wouldn't be jobs.
- brookside 9y agoJoin the financial independence movement. Spend little and save much, and with a programmer salary you can not have to work again in a few short years. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
- neffy 9y agoA lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from getting bogged down by the job.
- corndoge 9y agoI work on gpl'd systems software that is very relevant to my interests but I look to the future and can't see myself doing this for many more years, software as a whole is just so depressingly mundane
- Clubber 9y agoBusiness processes are what make it that way for me. I'd still rather do that than be an accountant or salesman or something.