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> Why? I don't know. I thought it was funny This is the profit. While job searching I went on an interview where I got asked why I did a side gig listed on my
by croo 7y ago
> Why? I don't know. I thought it was funny
This is the profit.
While job searching I went on an interview where I got asked why I did a side gig listed on my resumee. "For friend or for money?" It was neither and I said "I don't know, because programming is fun?"
I got hired.
- Waterluvian 7y agoPeople who do stuff like this remind me of the Beethoven quote: "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine." Why are you learning how to create linux processes with no memory? Why are you hacking overloading into Python? Why are you writing programs for fun? To dig unnecessarily deep and force your way into programming's secrets.
- gpanders 7y agoWell said, and good quote.
- jldugger 7y ago> I got hired. So, for money.
- jshevek 7y agoNot all of the outcomes of our actions give evidence for the motivations for our actions.
- osrec 7y agoEspecially given how rarely our desired outcomes match our original motivations... We try to achieve one thing, but often end up achieving something else!
- Piskvorrr 7y agoI've had projects that - eventually and incidentally - brought me money, but were not started or done for money.
- labradore 7y agoThe thing about the "money" argument is that one could just as strongly claim that you went to 1st grade "for money".
- diggan 7y agoAnd at the end, we end up with the capitalists dream: "I was born... for money"
- nickpsecurity 7y agoI was born into debt. Then, I was forced to go to schools that taught obedience to authority, getting a job, and paying taxes. Then, I saw ads that told me I needed to buy products and run up debt. Then, I eventually didn't care about money except where absolutely necessary. Everything in between made it seem like making money my No. 1 focus was necessary, though. A lifetime of being manipulated and pressured. It all gets better when you can finally pull back the curtain seeing what's really there. :)
- serf 7y agoexcept that there is a certain lack of autonomy both legally, mentally, and physically that prevents first grade aged children from refusing to go to school in many nations. In other words : you can't derive a motivation from an action an individual does if it's something that they're forced to do so socially or legally.