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If you think it is easy, it is because you have a talent for it and have years of experiance. People who are mental health professionals, teachers, doctors, CE
by francisofascii 3y ago
If you think it is easy, it is because you have a talent for it and have years of experiance. People who are mental health professionals, teachers, doctors, CEOs, all have what I consider harder jobs, but do you think they would want to switch places and be a software developer 40 hours a week? They would think it is too hard.
- dudul 3y agoThere is a medium between "easy" and "hardest job in the world". People really live in a bubble. Try being a nurse working in cancer kid unit for a few years like my wife. Try being a trucker who sees their kids every other week. Don't you think these people would love seating in their chair from 9 to 5 and make 6 figures? Maybe I misunderstood what the OP meant by "hardest". I sincerely hope so.
- francisofascii 3y agoAgreed. Hardest is a high bar. Maybe OP was referring to those roles on a software team: developer, tester, business analyst, PM, client manager, etc.
- sanderjd 3y agoThere are just different kinds of "hard". I have lots of nurses in my family who have worked in ERs and ICUs, some of whom nonetheless have told me "I could never do what you do". I think they could! What I do seems way easier to me! But that's not how they see it.
- sanderjd 3y agoYep, everyone I know who isn't already involved in creating software, including a number of people I know who do jobs that I think of as being actually-hard, thinks it seems really hard and magical. Like, not the job aspect of it that we're mostly discussing here, but the "writing the code that makes computers do all this stuff" part, that probably strikes 95% of the people reading this thread as pretty easy at this point. It's just that it's easy to do things you already know how to do.