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Man spends entire career convincing himself the reason he keeps job hopping is because everyone else is writing crappy code. Karl Hackerman shows up to each me
by agentultra 3y ago
Man spends entire career convincing himself the reason he keeps job hopping is because everyone else is writing crappy code.
Karl Hackerman shows up to each meeting complaining. He seems sour that he hasn’t been given the go ahead to rewrite the system in Rust. He knows a lot about bleeding edge frameworks and best practices and always seems annoyed that he can’t use them at work. He thinks it’s because everyone else has settled in to becoming wage slaves instead of striving to be the best programmers they can be. Everyone puts up with him because they know he’ll quit in six months anyway.
Karl is 47 now. Hasn’t held a job for more than a couple of years. Has mostly been freelancing lately and trying to sell books on tech and frameworks nobody cares about anymore.
- JackMorgan 3y agoI did not expect to wake up and be attacked like this. Not even a warning. Savage. Good thing I'm not in my 40s yet, still time to recover from my wayward path.
- appplication 3y agoYeah this is ruthless. On the other hand, I feel ok with my present course because the intermittent chance to use new shit is the only thing that keeps me interested anymore. That and the exorbitant pay, I guess.
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- hfhfhfhfhfhfhf 3y agoFYI, Karl has been reincarnated as MyCurrentIntern
- surprisetalk 3y agoAuthor here! I love this so much. I've totally been this guy :) Learning how not to be an insufferable doucheb*g was a surprisingly hard challenge for me I've been writing a longer fiction piece about overzealous know-it-all engineers in the style of Confederacy of Dunces. Probably won't be done for a while, 'cause there's a lot more of my soul in it haha
- agentultra 3y agoAwesome! Enjoyed the post. Keep up the good work as long as it makes you happy. :)
- afstr 3y agoPlease do! That’s my favorite book! I love your other posts too
- sixstringtheory 3y agoThe only book i’ve read cover to cover in one day. I would buy a programmer-based version of it in a heartbeat!
- time0ut 3y agoThis was great. I felt this way earlier on, but quickly learned to get fulfillment in my day job purely from shipping and contemplate the mysteries of computer science largely on my own time. Sometimes they overlap, but good day jobs are often 80% boring in my experience.
- r-u-serious 3y agoI lost it at "best practice". I once worked with this guy. He would use that term whenever he didn't have any good argument, which was basically all of the time. He would have the strongest opinions, whenever it didn't matter...
- sixstringtheory 3y agoIt’s appeal to authority, a logical fallacy, the things people who can’t accept they’re either wrong or outnumbered fall back on.