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wait... your software engineering job is stress free? That surprises me.
by jdmoreira 6y ago
wait... your software engineering job is stress free?
That surprises me.
- christiansakai 6y agoYeah it is. Maybe stress is relative for people.
- war1025 6y agoI've been in software for a decade now and I would absolutely call my job stress free. My broader family is almost entirely working class though, so maybe it's just a matter of perspective.
- marcinzm 6y agoAs I see it, it's mainly a question of what you look for when interviewing. If you look for money then you'll likely get more stress. If you look for calm then you'll likely get less stress. You'll also get less money but nothing in life give you everything. I've turned down multiple offers when it was visible they valued workaholism or had bad processes.
- christiansakai 6y agoThis. I am paid pretty well at my company right now, but there are always my colleague that I know get a higher offer for some other role. I can choose to get salty about it or just try to transition with that role but with less satisfaction and more learning. There are more to life than just chasing money. No matter who you are, peasants or kings, you are only given a limited time to live. We trade 40 hrs of our life for some numbers on the computer that can go up or down, meanwhile the rich just gained a lot of money due to this pandemic.
- marcinzm 6y agoYeah. You don't need to make bad money if you want a lack of stress but generally the difference between good money and great money is going to be a lot of stress.
- christiansakai 6y agoYes in the another profession but thankfully not so much in SWE world.
- nicbou 6y agoEvery software engineering job I've had was stress-free. In 10 years, I never had to do overtime. Quite frankly, if something can't get done in 40 hours per week, that's not my problem. That's the company's problem, and I will work on that problem in the hours I agreed to sell to said company.