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The single most reliable way to come to a loathing of the software development process is to engage in it for a living.
by brennen 5y ago
The single most reliable way to come to a loathing of the software development process is to engage in it for a living.
- joelbluminator 5y agoWhy would you say that? Most devs I know dont loath their jobs and I know many who actually love it. Never heard dentists, accountants or schoolteachers sound as passionate about their craft as I have devs.
- paulcole 5y agoJust curious, but how many dentists do you know personally? I work in a field adjacent to dentistry and interact with many dentists daily. It’s shocking to me how many of them are deeply passionate about dentistry and teeth/gums/etc. This may be a situation where I tend to mostly work with successful happy dentists, but the same bias may exist w/ you and developers.
- joelbluminator 5y agoNot as many as you. I do know quite a few accountants that hate it though. And lawyers.
- muzani 5y agoDevelopment is fun, but a lot of work involves non fun stuff, such as unreasonable deadlines, code reviews, grinding algorithms, being to learn a new language in a few hours. I'd say it still is a lot of fun as long as you optimize for the fun bits and not the highest salaries.
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- arduinomancer 5y agoLoathing is a bit of a strong word IMO But I agree in the sense that working as a developer is very different from coding-for-fun To me they are very disconnected activities. At work I don't even write code like 60% of the time.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoAnd even when you write code the interesting bits are the minority of what you take care of. Writing tests, making sure that errors are handled correctly and CRUD take a significant portion of time and they are simply not interesting if you've been doing this for a while.