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Way I see it, is that 'just doing the minimum' is utterly soul-destroying. And if you're doing that, then just you need to focus on everything else to stay sane

by goldcd 6y ago

Way I see it, is that 'just doing the minimum' is utterly soul-destroying. And if you're doing that, then just you need to focus on everything else to stay sane. Work is never going to feel better. However, if you can find at least a bit of interest in something that you do, then it's rewarding to focus on it. You take pride in that 5%, you polish it, read up on it, stay a bit late to add that shiny new feature, you tell others about it etc. If others agree with you, it grows and then becomes 10, 20% etc of your time. Basically you're still stuck at work, when you'd rather be asleep under a duvet - but you've made that time more tolerable.

brailsafe 6y ago
This is just pride in your work and a personal choice right? Which is great, but then sometimes you do this and it's so unreciprocated that you just burnout because you thought what you did mattered, and then your company fires you for whatever trite reason. That fucks with your head and it's probably not worth that much unless you know it can be.
- goldcd 6y ago
  Not disagreeing with anything you say.. But you can make things that satisfies you, and doesn't require external validation/utility. Have an example: About 8 years ago I was told two oracle dbs were behaving differently, despite "containing the same data and code" I'm a biochemist, I can't code for shit, but fuelled by the logic that "there must be a difference" and google, I knocked out a block of PL/SQL that would generate hashes on schema, data, and packages. At the time I just ran it against the two schemas, it showed me two tables were different and boom problem solved. Over the subsequent years I've bumped into people with a problem that maybe my script could help debug - but the pride I felt each time was incredible. It's maybe fixed three issues, but something I did right so many years ago still being useful today, feels great.

by goldcd 6y ago

brailsafe 6y ago

This is just pride in your work and a personal choice right? Which is great, but then sometimes you do this and it's so unreciprocated that you just burnout because you thought what you did mattered, and then your company fires you for whatever trite reason. That fucks with your head and it's probably not worth that much unless you know it can be.

goldcd 6y ago
Not disagreeing with anything you say.. But you can make things that satisfies you, and doesn't require external validation/utility. Have an example: About 8 years ago I was told two oracle dbs were behaving differently, despite "containing the same data and code" I'm a biochemist, I can't code for shit, but fuelled by the logic that "there must be a difference" and google, I knocked out a block of PL/SQL that would generate hashes on schema, data, and packages. At the time I just ran it against the two schemas, it showed me two tables were different and boom problem solved. Over the subsequent years I've bumped into people with a problem that maybe my script could help debug - but the pride I felt each time was incredible. It's maybe fixed three issues, but something I did right so many years ago still being useful today, feels great.