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Calling yourself a programmer sounds fairly blue collar these days. If that’s what you want for yourself, fine. But don’t grumble when you get replaced by some
by xwdv 5y ago
Calling yourself a programmer sounds fairly blue collar these days. If that’s what you want for yourself, fine. But don’t grumble when you get replaced by some cheap worker overseas.
- Epenthesis 5y agoI imagine this depends on what circles you run in. I feel like in silicon valley, the modal image is of a FAANG employee making 400 k$/yr.
- SwiftyBug 5y agoI'm fine with it. Makes it easier to remind me to what class I really belong.
- yellowapple 5y agoAgreed. I certainly relate a lot easier to, say, pickers and packers in a warehouse than I do with execs in fancy offices. Maybe the article wants me to flip that around, but it's the workers - the actual users of my code - who drive what software I write and how I write it, and it's therefore their best interests that are at the forefront of my brain - and if it's in their best interests, then it's in the best interests of the company as a whole, since (to the article's point) enabling ground-floor workers to work as efficiently as possible both maximizes profit and minimizes cost. Being disconnected from ground-floor workers has been the hardest part about remote work, on that note.