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Guess it depends on how grey. If you saw garage tinkering turn into a new industry, it was probably fantastic. If you came up in the already industrialized time
by ibejoeb 7y ago
Guess it depends on how grey. If you saw garage tinkering turn into a new industry, it was probably fantastic. If you came up in the already industrialized times, a job's a job, right?
From my perspective I'd say that programmers, in general, have it pretty good, as jobs go.
That doesn't mean a programmer is going to be happy. You just might not be happier doing anything else, either, and you might even dislike it more. Imagine punching a clock, which is practically unheard of in the western software industry...
- hazeii 7y agoIt's been good to me (my first home computer was a Z80 with 768 bytes of RAM, my first pro job was to go onsite and sort a blown bulb in a paper tape reader - that should say how grey :) ). Punching in and out isn't so bad (I've done it), it's probably gone out of fashion because then people would get paid for all the hours they work :) What seems wrong nowadays is how exploited workers are (and not just programmers).
- cicciop 7y ago> If you saw garage tinkering turn into a new industry, it was probably fantastic. Probably, probably not. Maybe you know people who went on to became multibillionaires, whereas you're still tinkering and broke. I feel like I missed so, so many boats, and am in no position to catch the next one even if I could recognise it.