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Exactly this. Guy had a comfortable stable job for years. Probably knew codebase and technology enough to have lots of time for family/friends/hobbies. More tha
by Otek 3y ago
Exactly this. Guy had a comfortable stable job for years. Probably knew codebase and technology enough to have lots of time for family/friends/hobbies. More than this story scares me how HN reacted
- bowsamic 3y agoI can only assume it's because HN is full of young, inexperienced people whose main wish is to stay on the cutting edge of technology rather than sinking into a stable profession
- version_five 3y agoYou may be right, but I don't think experience is what makes people prioritize stability over anything else. I'd be so depressed at a real job like the one described, it would be irrelevant that it was stable and gave me extra time. Some people are ambitious, some just like variety.
- bowsamic 3y agoVariety for the sake of variety is foolish though. If variety is not required, injecting it where it's not needed is just called "breaking things"
- Double_a_92 3y agoMost jobs are like that though... Unless maybe if all you do is develop very small applications, that your company just sells and forgets.
- chasd00 3y agoThe scope of ambition is larger than your job. Very ambitious people use a job as just the means to an end.
- sneak 3y agoHaving a comfortable, stable job for many years sounds like the worst version of hell one could possibly invent for people who live like I do. There are better things to aspire to than predictability whilst making someone else rich.
- pjc50 3y agoThis view may change as you get older and "unpredictability" starts to mean more negative experiences.
- jebarker 3y agoPerhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?
- junon 3y agoOnly if you don't have other aspirations in life. My day job is solely to fund my personal projects that I actually enjoy. Not everyone is out to be insanely rich.
- sneak 3y agoIf you fairly profit from your direct efforts in a lifelong career as a productive programmer, you will merely become rich, not insanely so. You appear to have constructed a strawman. Making someone else rich is the objection.
- oars 3y agoArthur was also able to purchase his large family home in the 1990s for $90,000 which is now worth $2.3 million.
- 0x445442 3y agoNothing in the article said Arthur lived in the Bay Area.
- fsociety 3y agoIt’s not just the Bay Area experiencing this.
- 0x445442 3y agoMaybe Arthur lived in Springfield, MO and worked at Bass Pro or O'Reilly Auto Corporate offices and lives here. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8057-W-Farm-Road-100-Willard-MO-65781/50272224_zpid/ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8057-W-Farm-Road-100-Will...
- ryukafalz 3y agoIt’s not, but from the outside the Bay Area’s cost of living looks impressively bad. A typical house in my neighborhood in the Northeast goes for less than 1/4 of that.
- thumbuddy 3y agoSome people like to either suffer or think they are so great that even their if statements will survive into the next millennia
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- jojobas 3y ago>More than this story scares me how HN reacted Projections, my dear Watson.