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Both 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" som
by JKCalhoun 2y ago
Both 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?