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A sad story indeed, but I've never felt any of my work has been "Snow Crashy" or monotonous or lacking the need for autonomy and creativity. I doubt it's repres
by rajman187 7y ago
A sad story indeed, but I've never felt any of my work has been "Snow Crashy" or monotonous or lacking the need for autonomy and creativity. I doubt it's representative of the entire industry, and it's not even fair to treat the industry as a monolith to begin with.
- thiago_fm 7y agomost of people have jobs like she mentions, but they need money badly to live, so they have no choice than to accept it.
- jshield 7y agoMost of my male colleagues and myself included also hate the industry because the pay sucks, the hours are long, you are expected to do impossible things in impossible amounts of time, and we are so removed from the end users that it’s hard to get an idea of the impact we are having on their day to day grind. It may have something to do with the local scene as well, as I’m pretty confident that not all workplaces are like that, it wasn’t at all like that where I was before. That being said I find anonymously contributing code to open source projects rewarding enough to offset the daily grind.