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I have hobbies. The most interesting work is going to be 10% interesting and 90% not interesting. In most cases it will be less interesting than that. Priorit

I have hobbies. The most interesting work is going to be 10% interesting and 90% not interesting. In most cases it will be less interesting than that. Prioritizing "interesting" work means you'll always be exploited by the companies that can sell you on less pay, less benefits, less time off, less respect in exchange for some pittance of perceived novelty. Don't fall for this trap.

pmarreck 2y ago
tell me you don't have ADHD without telling me you don't have ADHD
- iwontberude 2y ago
  In a world where everyone has ADHD, I welcome these few non-ADHD aliens.
  - pmarreck 2y ago
    Never said I didn't!
- seba_dos1 2y ago
  For what it's worth, I find it much easier for my ADHD to debug and improve existing code than to greenfield - it's actually interesting. Debugging is like a detective's work with small dopamine hit at each step of unraveling the situation and a huge reward once you finally grasp it. It's best to do on someone else's code, so you don't get too frustrated with your past self ;) Greenfielding provides some rewards too, but once I'd greenfielded anything remotely similar already there's a lot of forcing myself to do it around the beginning and end, where there's plenty of unrewarding work to do. For greenfielding to be fun and easy, it needs to be a completely new area that I had no previous experience in, but that doesn't tend to end up with excellent results.
  - _cenw 2y ago
    On the other hand, the infrastructure variant of this is the exact opposite. Trying to figure out if something specific is in use and who uses it or if someone just clicked around in your cloud console and forgot about it is the worst. There's only so many ways I can be inventive in building proxies to measure usage. We sometimes get incidents that things someone remembers should exist do not work, only to find out that that product was retired several years ago (but someone forgot to delete some DNS records, so there's an error message from... someone's server!). But only because we asked half the company on Teams.
    - pmarreck 2y ago
      Tell me you use AWS without telling me... ... I literally had a multi month ticket open to track down an expense for something I either never used or only used once which ended up being a load balancer or some crap
  - pmarreck 2y ago
    That is a good point and I'd likely be good at that.
- kerkeslager 2y ago
  Actually you're completely wrong. I do have ADHD.
Terr_ 2y ago
Ex: Game development.

pmarreck 2y ago

tell me you don't have ADHD without telling me you don't have ADHD

iwontberude 2y ago
In a world where everyone has ADHD, I welcome these few non-ADHD aliens.
- pmarreck 2y ago
  Never said I didn't!
seba_dos1 2y ago
For what it's worth, I find it much easier for my ADHD to debug and improve existing code than to greenfield - it's actually interesting. Debugging is like a detective's work with small dopamine hit at each step of unraveling the situation and a huge reward once you finally grasp it. It's best to do on someone else's code, so you don't get too frustrated with your past self ;) Greenfielding provides some rewards too, but once I'd greenfielded anything remotely similar already there's a lot of forcing myself to do it around the beginning and end, where there's plenty of unrewarding work to do. For greenfielding to be fun and easy, it needs to be a completely new area that I had no previous experience in, but that doesn't tend to end up with excellent results.
- _cenw 2y ago
  On the other hand, the infrastructure variant of this is the exact opposite. Trying to figure out if something specific is in use and who uses it or if someone just clicked around in your cloud console and forgot about it is the worst. There's only so many ways I can be inventive in building proxies to measure usage. We sometimes get incidents that things someone remembers should exist do not work, only to find out that that product was retired several years ago (but someone forgot to delete some DNS records, so there's an error message from... someone's server!). But only because we asked half the company on Teams.
  - pmarreck 2y ago
    Tell me you use AWS without telling me... ... I literally had a multi month ticket open to track down an expense for something I either never used or only used once which ended up being a load balancer or some crap
- pmarreck 2y ago
  That is a good point and I'd likely be good at that.
kerkeslager 2y ago
Actually you're completely wrong. I do have ADHD.

Terr_ 2y ago

Ex: Game development.