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> Engineering pays well because you are supposed to work magic. I thought it was because you have to pay people a lot to spend time around engineers who say th
by paulcole 4y ago
> Engineering pays well because you are supposed to work magic.
I thought it was because you have to pay people a lot to spend time around engineers who say things like this.
- burnished 4y agoI don't know how it would be possible to work in software and not experience at least a little awe.
- paulcole 4y agoI'm a janitor not a miracle worker.
- the_only_law 4y agoThe awe disappeared once I started to get good enough at it and I saw the "magic" for what it is.
- burnished 4y agoYou're just in the valley, dig deeper and you'll find the awe again. Just the things required to make networking even work are practically magic. Just the existence of error correcting codes makes me feel that way, for an example.