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If both options paid you 240k a year, would you rather be a software engineer or do the exact job the Walmart manager does? I'm guessing you'd rather do SWE

by prh8 2y ago

evan_ 2y ago
and plenty of people would rather do the job where you walk around and talk to people all day, folks are different
zeroonetwothree 2y ago
I would imagine most people would rather do the Walmart job. It would probably be like 90/10 or something.
angmarsbane 2y ago
Depends. Walmart manager could be one of the highest salaried roles in a LCOL area enabling an early retirement or better quality of life than a SWE stuck in a HCOL.
varispeed 2y ago
I think you misunderstood my point. I actually had a conversation about it with my friend who was a manager of a private health clinic. She had a moment of massive burnout and was looking to switch profession to something else. She was particularly tired of abuse she was getting from employees she had to manage and patients, unrealistic targets, overtime and relatively poor pay. The prospect of sitting in a cubicle, with noise cancelling headphones, minding own work and having similar pay while being surrounded by like-minded professionals was really enticing. Her understanding of programming was very much that you type in commands so the computer does things you want, easy. When she was this motivated, I asked her to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E She managed to watch about 20 minutes and from there she couldn't focus. Then she asked to stop and asked me: "Do you know all of this? Do you have to know this?" I said that this is just the basics. That was very much the end of it. She changed her career later and she is managing construction projects. Something I wouldn't like to do. It would be a hard job, because that's not something I am interested in.
doublepg23 2y ago
I think you underestimate how many people hate interacting with computers.

If both options paid you 240k a year, would you rather be a software engineer or do the exact job the Walmart manager does? I'm guessing you'd rather do SWE

by prh8 2y ago

If both options paid you 240k a year, would you rather be a software engineer or do the exact job the Walmart manager does? I'm guessing you'd rather do SWE

evan_ 2y ago

and plenty of people would rather do the job where you walk around and talk to people all day, folks are different

zeroonetwothree 2y ago

I would imagine most people would rather do the Walmart job. It would probably be like 90/10 or something.

angmarsbane 2y ago

Depends. Walmart manager could be one of the highest salaried roles in a LCOL area enabling an early retirement or better quality of life than a SWE stuck in a HCOL.

varispeed 2y ago

I think you misunderstood my point. I actually had a conversation about it with my friend who was a manager of a private health clinic. She had a moment of massive burnout and was looking to switch profession to something else. She was particularly tired of abuse she was getting from employees she had to manage and patients, unrealistic targets, overtime and relatively poor pay. The prospect of sitting in a cubicle, with noise cancelling headphones, minding own work and having similar pay while being surrounded by like-minded professionals was really enticing. Her understanding of programming was very much that you type in commands so the computer does things you want, easy. When she was this motivated, I asked her to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E She managed to watch about 20 minutes and from there she couldn't focus. Then she asked to stop and asked me: "Do you know all of this? Do you have to know this?" I said that this is just the basics. That was very much the end of it. She changed her career later and she is managing construction projects. Something I wouldn't like to do. It would be a hard job, because that's not something I am interested in.

doublepg23 2y ago

I think you underestimate how many people hate interacting with computers.