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Idk if real world engineering is often about passion. Who is passionate about legacy code, constantly changing design requirements and live site issues/on call?
by jorblumesea 8y ago
Idk if real world engineering is often about passion. Who is passionate about legacy code, constantly changing design requirements and live site issues/on call? I love to build things but at the end of the day it's more of a job than it is a passion project.
- vermasque 8y agoYeah, this seems like a more realistic perspective for most people. Find something you can like with tolerable downsides.
- mcsonka 8y ago️
- realbarack 8y agoPassion is a tricky thing because even great jobs require some combination of cool, interesting things and wading through shit. A job that you're passionate about doesn't mean one that's shit-free--it just means that you get enough fulfillment out of the good parts that you're happy to tolerate the stench.
- dasil003 8y agoYeah, passion is overused recruiter-speak. Sure it's nice for cheerleading if everyone feels passionate about their job, but it's really just short-hand for being engaged and focused which is orthogonal to passion. There is however something which I believe software engineers need: an innate desire to understand how things work, and a tenacity to debug them when they don't. If you don't have this internal drive, then you'll never get over the hump of the vast background knowledge you need to be a productive programmer in any interesting job.