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Consider your choice of field carefully. I loved programming and yet doing it for a living and climbing the ladder made me start hating it. IMHO the tech field

Consider your choice of field carefully. I loved programming and yet doing it for a living and climbing the ladder made me start hating it. IMHO the tech field is overrun with young, bright, energetic people, most of whom are dreamers with their own private techno-utopian fantasies who secretly harbor the belief they'll be multi-millionaires or billionaires in a few short years. Dreamers are mostly innocent but there are lots of cutthroat assholes and psychopaths (as there are in many fields). The blood (money) in the water attracts some seriously disturbed people. Greed is everywhere, and in many forms. Do something you love that doesn't require you to compromise your morals. I wish I had been a musician. I wish I had focused on finding the right mate instead of so many nights programming, even though it brought me some fame and some money. I'm a little fucked up because I chose tech over loving the right person, and they are gone now.

lapaz17 7y ago
Did you decide how to find this mate?
croh 7y ago
So true. Actually early days of programming are good when you enjoy it. But once you decide to work for money, it becomes shit. This applies for everything. Real problem is money. Programmer makes lifestyle-changing-money in early days which keep them in constant fear to lose. As long as you're disconnected from money and doing your shit without bothering about others, everything works well. This is the reason I keep telling myself life is long. Try as many things as possible. Don't fear to start again as there ain't such thing as security. But alas my stupid mind... still seeks security over bewilderment.
- blub 7y ago
  The quantity of money plays a decisive role in an industry's transformation into a cutthroat, toxic environment. SWE is now already there, but it used to be much more relaxed when there weren't so many billions floating around. Start-ups and the out of control VC money are one of the worst things that happened to this industry.

lapaz17 7y ago

Did you decide how to find this mate?

croh 7y ago

So true. Actually early days of programming are good when you enjoy it. But once you decide to work for money, it becomes shit. This applies for everything. Real problem is money. Programmer makes lifestyle-changing-money in early days which keep them in constant fear to lose. As long as you're disconnected from money and doing your shit without bothering about others, everything works well. This is the reason I keep telling myself life is long. Try as many things as possible. Don't fear to start again as there ain't such thing as security. But alas my stupid mind... still seeks security over bewilderment.

blub 7y ago
The quantity of money plays a decisive role in an industry's transformation into a cutthroat, toxic environment. SWE is now already there, but it used to be much more relaxed when there weren't so many billions floating around. Start-ups and the out of control VC money are one of the worst things that happened to this industry.