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Maybe it's my age, and a youth of grunge, metal, hardcore and punk, but whatever happened to doing what you love and not giving a shit what naysayers think?
by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Maybe it's my age, and a youth of grunge, metal, hardcore and punk, but whatever happened to doing what you love and not giving a shit what naysayers think?
- nine_k 8y agoWhat happened: the need to earn subsistence.
- trentmb 8y agoBecause in a capitalist dystopia or an anarchist commune, I need other people to want to help me.
- tmh88j 8y ago>but whatever happened to doing what you love and not giving a shit what naysayers think? I'm in my 30's and have used a lot of different languages and have worked in a lot of different aspects of software development. As long as I'm being compensated at my skill level, I couldn't care less what language I'm using. I'm currently a web dev and the company I work for primarily uses PHP. To make a long story short, a good friend of mine works for a huge university and if I hang out with him during the week, I'm inevitably going to be around some college kids. The typical icebreaker conversations of "what are you studying" often times leads to chats with CS students. The amount of trash talking I get from kids who haven't even graduated and have no professional experience once they find out I primarily use PHP is astounding. Golang and Python seem to be cool amongst college students, so once they find out I also have more experience with those languages than they do with programming in any language, I suddenly become cool and worth their time.