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The work I do day to day sometimes seems so easy and obvious, for lack of a better description, that it feels like anyone could do it. It wasn't always that way
by randomdata 15y ago
The work I do day to day sometimes seems so easy and obvious, for lack of a better description, that it feels like anyone could do it. It wasn't always that way; far from it. I worked hard to reach the level of skill I am at, but hard work is easily forgotten.
As such, it is easy to minimize ones achievements. There are people off developing autonomous vehicles and doing crazy things with artificial intelligence, and I'm here developing lowly web/desktop/mobile apps. I guess phony is one way to describe it: If I were a "real" programmer, I would be working on "real" problems [1].
[1] i.e. problems in which I do not yet have experience solving. I imagine once I gain that experience and become confident in my work in those areas, they too will no longer feel like real programming jobs and I will set my sights on something else that is, in my mind, a "real" programmer's job.