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Truck driver is a special kind of hell because of the time away from home. But if it paid well enough and had better job security, I’d much rather be building
by sarchertech 2y ago
Truck driver is a special kind of hell because of the time away from home.
But if it paid well enough and had better job security, I’d much rather be building houses all day.
I worked in retail for a while and made it to supervisor. It was much easier than being a software engineer, the pay was just crappy.
Software engineering is definitely up there in terms of mentally demanding jobs, it just pays well.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoBoth construction and mowing lawns are two jobs I can say felt much more rewarding than programming. Each day you walked away with a sense of having "built" something (or, er, tidied up in the case of mowing lawns). And accomplishing anything with your hands and manual labor is instantly gratifying.
- threatofrain 2y agoThere are a lot of programming jobs where people never get to build anything, only fix things that other people didn't do well enough. Many people have never seen greenfield. Other people work jobs where they're pumping out new creative works. So when people talk about how spiritually satisfying programming is we're gonna hear this discordance.
- m000 2y ago> And accomplishing anything with your hands and manual labor is instantly gratifying. May I add that Agile (which appears to be the currently prevalent work methodology in SE) takes away much of the gratification of software engineering?