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> I have been in technology my whole career. 99.999% of everything I have built, designed, launched and implemented is no longer in existence. 60-something he

> I have been in technology my whole career. 99.999% of everything I have built, designed, launched and implemented is no longer in existence. 60-something here. I know exactly how you feel. I can't point at anything I've worked on in the last 30+ years that's still in use. It's very demotivating. When you first get into tech it's all shiny and new and exciting. But nothing lasts.

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
I don't understand how this is demotivating. Most work output for most jobs is temporary. How many people make permanent objects for a living? I never have and that's fine.
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jimbokun 3y ago
It's not a new problem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
- UncleOxidant 3y ago
  Ecclesiastes 1 is also very relevant here: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
    Ecclesiastes is one of the OG existentialist texts lol
I_Am_Nous 3y ago
At work, we were cleaning out a closet which has accumulated stuff for at least 15 years. My boss said "Aww, a Cajun[1]!" and it turns out it was the first switch we used back when he started at the company. Later in the day, I had to ask him what he wanted to do with it and it took some definitely effort for him to say "I guess we can just put it in the recycle pile..." as he had good memories of working with it and building stuff on top of it. Time marches on, and our great efforts are as nothing once they are replaced by the next big thing. 1. https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago

I don't understand how this is demotivating. Most work output for most jobs is temporary. How many people make permanent objects for a living? I never have and that's fine.

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jimbokun 3y ago

It's not a new problem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

UncleOxidant 3y ago
Ecclesiastes 1 is also very relevant here: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  Ecclesiastes is one of the OG existentialist texts lol

I_Am_Nous 3y ago

At work, we were cleaning out a closet which has accumulated stuff for at least 15 years. My boss said "Aww, a Cajun[1]!" and it turns out it was the first switch we used back when he started at the company. Later in the day, I had to ask him what he wanted to do with it and it took some definitely effort for him to say "I guess we can just put it in the recycle pile..." as he had good memories of working with it and building stuff on top of it. Time marches on, and our great efforts are as nothing once they are replaced by the next big thing. 1. https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf