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I think satisfaction is largely subjective. There are people who can find satisfaction in the worst kind of shit. It's similar to how marathon runners and other
by burntoutfire 4y ago
I think satisfaction is largely subjective. There are people who can find satisfaction in the worst kind of shit. It's similar to how marathon runners and other endurance athletes "like" pain. That's one of the reasons companies look for people with athletic background and achievements - they're the ones who learned to embrace the suck.
- aristofun 4y agoCan you please give an example of some of your subjective job satisfactions?
- Matthias247 4y agoDevops work / oncall is one example that comes to mind. Some people really like - it's a fast paced environment where one can debug large systems, and apply fixes that make a lot of other people happy. Others can't stand it, and just want to write code. Some people get satisfaction from writing some low-level code that isn't really visible for the end-user in the form of any feature, but e.g. makes the system 10% more efficient - think about kernel optimization work for example. Others again mostly get satisfaction from delivering user-facing features. Then there's people who will get satisfaction from just being able to work with a certain set of technologies, who might not be happy about being asked to work with other pieces of technology.
- burntoutfire 4y agoThere was a guy who worked same software engineering job as me. Whereas I perceived the job as mostly pointless drudgery (we were grossly mismanaged a lot of the time, and it was questionable if the product we're working on actually makes sense), he could make himself excited about cleaning up bad code or trying to instutite good practices (at least the ones he saw as good, I wasn't so sold on them) etc. He was a very religious Christian, so he probably saw it as a part of his duty to serve others in life.