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That's just sad. Right when I found love in what I do, my work has no value anymore.

jasonfarnon 9mo ago
Aren't you still better off than the rest of us who found what they love + invested decades in it before it lost its value. Isn't it better to lose your love when you still have time to find a new one?
- pesus 9mo ago
  Depends on if their new love provides as much money as their old one, which is probably not likely. I'd rather have had those decades to stash and invest.
  - jasonfarnon 9mo ago
    A lot of pre-faang engineers dont have the stash you're thinking about. What you meant was "right when I found a lucrative job that I love". What was going on in tech these last 15 years, unfortunately, probably was once in a lifetime.
    - WarmWash 9mo ago
      It's crazy to think back in the 80's programmers had "mild" salaries despite programming back then being worlds more punishing. No libraries, no stack exchange, no forums, no endless memory and infinite compute. If you had a challenging bug you better also be proficient in reading schematics and probing circuits.
      - lurking_swe 9mo ago
        on the bright side software evolved much more slowly in the 80s. You could go very far by being an expert in 1 thing. People had real offices with actual quiet focus time. User expectations were also much lower. pros and cons i guess?
- nfredericks 9mo ago
  This is genuinely such a good take
  - dugidugout 9mo ago
    Especially on the topic of value! We are all intuitively aware that value is highly contextual, but get in a knot trying to rationalize value long past genuine engagement!
- josephg 9mo ago
  I don't think so. Those of us who found what we love and invested decades into it got to spend decades getting paid well to do what we love.
- sponaugle 9mo ago
  "it lost its value". It has not lost its value yet, but the future will shift that value. All of the past experience you have is an asset for you to move with that shift. The problem will not be you losing value, it will be you not following where the value goes. It might be a bit more difficult to love where the shift goes, but that is no different than loving being a artist which often shares a bed with loving being poor. What will make you happier?

Aren't you still better off than the rest of us who found what they love + invested decades in it before it lost its value. Isn't it better to lose your love when you still have time to find a new one?

pesus 9mo ago
Depends on if their new love provides as much money as their old one, which is probably not likely. I'd rather have had those decades to stash and invest.
- jasonfarnon 9mo ago
  A lot of pre-faang engineers dont have the stash you're thinking about. What you meant was "right when I found a lucrative job that I love". What was going on in tech these last 15 years, unfortunately, probably was once in a lifetime.
  - WarmWash 9mo ago
    It's crazy to think back in the 80's programmers had "mild" salaries despite programming back then being worlds more punishing. No libraries, no stack exchange, no forums, no endless memory and infinite compute. If you had a challenging bug you better also be proficient in reading schematics and probing circuits.
    - lurking_swe 9mo ago
      on the bright side software evolved much more slowly in the 80s. You could go very far by being an expert in 1 thing. People had real offices with actual quiet focus time. User expectations were also much lower. pros and cons i guess?
nfredericks 9mo ago
This is genuinely such a good take
- dugidugout 9mo ago
  Especially on the topic of value! We are all intuitively aware that value is highly contextual, but get in a knot trying to rationalize value long past genuine engagement!
josephg 9mo ago
I don't think so. Those of us who found what we love and invested decades into it got to spend decades getting paid well to do what we love.
sponaugle 9mo ago
"it lost its value". It has not lost its value yet, but the future will shift that value. All of the past experience you have is an asset for you to move with that shift. The problem will not be you losing value, it will be you not following where the value goes. It might be a bit more difficult to love where the shift goes, but that is no different than loving being a artist which often shares a bed with loving being poor. What will make you happier?