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I disagree - I did plenty of the 16-hour days of picking things up and putting them down before moving onto the white collar developer world, and I'll tell you
by ghurlman 15y ago
I disagree - I did plenty of the 16-hour days of picking things up and putting them down before moving onto the white collar developer world, and I'll tell you -- there are plenty of days where this work is a lot harder.
Harder on the body? On my back? No. More stressful? Harder on my mind, my life, and relationships? YES. Not every day, but we all know about those days.
What constitutes "hard work" is different for everyone. I think the linked blog entry is mixing "hard work" with "lots of work", which is simply not the same.
- nostrademons 15y agoI like to think of "risk" and "work" as being orthogonal dimensions. Risk is uncertainty, when you don't know how what you're doing will turn out. Work is putting in the hours, being able to concentrate on a goal for long stretches of time. We get paid for doing things that other people don't want to do. It turns out that most people would rather work hard than take on additional risk; they at least know what to do when they work hard, and what they'll get for it. That means that taking on risk can be very professionally lucrative, but the problem is then you have to deal with uncertainty constantly.