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It's funny, I've always joked that I never got a PhD because I didn't have anything to prove to anyone.
by teach 4y ago
It's funny, I've always joked that I never got a PhD because I didn't have anything to prove to anyone.
- hinkley 4y agoMeanwhile I successfully broke a gaming addiction by realizing that if I stopped fucking around I could achieve things that people other than fellow gamers would understand. Little did I know that aside from compensation, nobody knows what the fuck software developers are doing all day, and whether they've done something big or something trivial.
- Apocryphon 4y agoSo much of computer work is neither scientific nor engineering. Perhaps they should rename the degree to Software Development, to be true to industry expectations.
- throwaway_4ever 4y agoAnd most barely even know about the compensation...
- hinkley 4y agoThese days I talk about my hobbies. People seem to understand those, and sometimes I understand software better because of them. Which is why I routinely dive into Work Life Balance convos here with a 'get a life' speech.
- rrishi 4y ago> Little did I know that aside from compensation, nobody knows what the fuck software developers are doing all day, and whether they've done something big or something trivial. You could replace software developers with a lot of other professions and this would still hold, most people don't care about others' professions.