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I think you misinterpreted my comment. I do wood work and I create software. Wood working is intellectually stimulating, however, wood working grunt work is ver

I think you misinterpreted my comment. I do wood work and I create software. Wood working is intellectually stimulating, however, wood working grunt work is very much not so. I’m fairly certain that writing maintenance scripts or plumbing between old APIs is more interesting than running a bandsaw or a belt sander 10 or so times repetitively.

nix23 6y ago
>maintenance scripts or plumbing between old APIs A big No from me, looks like we just have different tastes.
- CyberRabbi 6y ago
  Both are grunt work, the point is that manual labor grunt work is just as bad or worse. Do you do manual labor?
  - SamBam 6y ago
    You keep saying this like it's an objective fact. It's not. Running a bandsaw 20 times might sound to you like the epitome of boredom. To me, a (poor) woodworking perfectionist (i.e. I'm always trying to make my work furniture-grade, but usually failing) it's an exercise in constant concentration and error-correction. To a master, it can be the epitome of mindfulness.
    - CyberRabbi 6y ago
      An activity being “mindful” is not the same as an activity being “intellectual stimulating.” I do not consider software engineering mindful in any significant way but I do agree with you that repetitive manual labor is quite mindful.
  - nix23 6y ago
    >Do you do manual labor Yes my apprenticeship was (4y) +3 years after that. Again different tastes.