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Ya, programming/maintnence/testing are the easy parts of our job. Especially work politics, but keeping up with paper work (OKRs, perf reviews, status reports,

Ya, programming/maintnence/testing are the easy parts of our job. Especially work politics, but keeping up with paper work (OKRs, perf reviews, status reports, design documents that might not ever be read by anyone else...) is the hard part, and I guess why we get paid so much?

Tade0 3y ago
Judging by my SO's experience as a corporate drone others get the same type of bs, but without the pay. She works really hard in comparison to me and half of that work is wrestling with the ever changing processes (or actually Standard Operating Procedures), that never cover all the edge cases.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  Oh, yes. I think we are still lucky, just that we are subject to the same corporate dysfunction as everyone else. I still feel like I'm being paid for the dysfunction though (since they want us to code, but coding is what I already like to do, they could pay me a lot less if they could convince me I wouldn't have to deal with office politics).
  - Tade0 3y ago
    > since they want us to code I've been having doubts about this part lately. I mean, my current project is actually supposed to do something and there are people genuinely interested in it, but I've also been in projects that were thinly veiled money burners.
QuercusMax 3y ago
I work in a regulated industry (medical device software), and don't really think I generally do anything exceptional compared to others in my position, but maybe this is a form of imposter syndrome? I'm a pretty decent developer with a good memory for project history and context, and I also have a pretty high tolerance for dealing with paperwork BS (I've been in this industry for 20 years). This doesn't seem like that tough of a skillset to replicate, but yet they still want to pay me what seems like ridiculous amounts of money to do work that really isn't that difficult. But it's annoying, and most people won't do it. I was recently asked by a family member "Why would you want to work in an industry like that? Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work?" My answer is basically: if you want to make a difference in healthcare, you have to play by the rules of the game.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 3y ago
  > Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work? Thanks to medical software (like Epic), doctors are asking this question too https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
UK-Al05 3y ago
The people who ultimately pay for you, couldn't give a crap about any of that. Only what they use from you. I.e The companies customers.

Tade0 3y ago

Judging by my SO's experience as a corporate drone others get the same type of bs, but without the pay. She works really hard in comparison to me and half of that work is wrestling with the ever changing processes (or actually Standard Operating Procedures), that never cover all the edge cases.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
Oh, yes. I think we are still lucky, just that we are subject to the same corporate dysfunction as everyone else. I still feel like I'm being paid for the dysfunction though (since they want us to code, but coding is what I already like to do, they could pay me a lot less if they could convince me I wouldn't have to deal with office politics).
- Tade0 3y ago
  > since they want us to code I've been having doubts about this part lately. I mean, my current project is actually supposed to do something and there are people genuinely interested in it, but I've also been in projects that were thinly veiled money burners.

QuercusMax 3y ago

I work in a regulated industry (medical device software), and don't really think I generally do anything exceptional compared to others in my position, but maybe this is a form of imposter syndrome? I'm a pretty decent developer with a good memory for project history and context, and I also have a pretty high tolerance for dealing with paperwork BS (I've been in this industry for 20 years). This doesn't seem like that tough of a skillset to replicate, but yet they still want to pay me what seems like ridiculous amounts of money to do work that really isn't that difficult. But it's annoying, and most people won't do it. I was recently asked by a family member "Why would you want to work in an industry like that? Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work?" My answer is basically: if you want to make a difference in healthcare, you have to play by the rules of the game.

0xdeadbeefbabe 3y ago
> Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work? Thanks to medical software (like Epic), doctors are asking this question too https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...

UK-Al05 3y ago

The people who ultimately pay for you, couldn't give a crap about any of that. Only what they use from you. I.e The companies customers.