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I chop a bit of wood every morning to heat my office space. All that chopping work is burned. I don't have an expectation that my wood or code will last very lo
by DwnVoteHoneyPot 5y ago
I chop a bit of wood every morning to heat my office space. All that chopping work is burned. I don't have an expectation that my wood or code will last very long. I enjoy both chopping and coding.
- herval 5y agoAt least the wood is definitely being useful - it's keeping you warm. Same for cooking a meal (it's eaten afterwards, was it useful?), cleaning your room, etc. The problem with coding jobs is when they're not even _temporarily_ useful - which is a common occurrence in my experience on bigger corps as well, and (I suspect) is a big factor for engineer burnout)
- npteljes 5y agoDoesn't a coding job keep the coder warm?
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoI hear you, but that approach, while delightfully mindless, would never have pushed human civilization beyond subsistence farming.
- npteljes 5y agoYou gotta wonder if the meaning of it all is pushing human civilization beyond anything. The older I am, the less I think so. Also, the approach is definitely not mindless. It's mindful, if anything.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoThe older I am, the less I think so. Yes, the younger you was naturally more appreciative of the technological advances that allowed him to live as long as the older you has.
- npteljes 5y agoAnd the older me is more appreciative of people who share their way of not wanting more, but appreciating the less. But I have to concede, painkillers and the internet is nice too.