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> If brewing paid as much as programming, it still wouldn't have been their first choice. Something had to have gone wrong for them to abandon their first love.
by JimboReilly 6y ago
> If brewing paid as much as programming, it still wouldn't have been their first choice. Something had to have gone wrong for them to abandon their first love.
I found this in bad taste. Believe it or not, you're allowed to enjoy something more than engineering.
- bittercynic 6y agoOf course you are, but I agree with the author that programming is singularly pleasurable - there's just something magic about it. I say this as a hobbyist only - I am not a professional programmer, though I have done some small programming tasks at work when it was useful.
- WetMinister 6y agoFully agree — growing a tomato from a seed to food or making a brew that makes you feel dizzy is just as ”magical” as fiddling a calculator to display text on a screen. The attitude that the quoted passage displays is in fact one of the more disheartening aspects of programming for me.