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I don’t think so; these things you name but also physical jobs like electrician etc don’t have this ‘new shit to learn every day’ while it doesn’t actually help
by tluyben2 4y ago
I don’t think so; these things you name but also physical jobs like electrician etc don’t have this ‘new shit to learn every day’ while it doesn’t actually help getting anything more done (the opposite actually). There are plenty industries and fields including art where you can do your job with the same tools (physically the same tools even) you were using 40 years ago. In software I am getting berated by strangers when I want to do that (‘it is morally wrong to use C in 2023’ and crap like that).
When, as a retired musician, painter, plumber or electrician, you walk into a project that was done yesterday, you can just understand it and start working. With software (well, frontend mostly), you will have spend an insane amount of work figuring out which billions will of crappy dependencies and myriad of frameworks were chosen and then learn those to start working.
That is just not very normal in most professions.
But sure, you could get bored after doing something for a long time. The getting annoyed and frustrated by not being able to do your job because someone added crap no one asked for (for tech ego etc), making all kinds of pain you have to figure out before writing code, I have not seen outside software dev.
- bhasi 4y agoCame here after searching for threads related to anxiety in the software development field. I feel this way too. In most professions, after you learn the specific number of things you need to learn while starting out, you just tend to improve upon them with time. And just like you said, a woodworker could get back to a project years later and he would feel right at home, unlike the SW field where things move so quickly. I battle impostor's syndrome daily.