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A small nit-pick: I disagree that programming is inherently a job the requires passion. Any job requires passion if you are to excel, but you can trudge along a
by mseebach 14y ago
A small nit-pick: I disagree that programming is inherently a job the requires passion. Any job requires passion if you are to excel, but you can trudge along as a career programmer as the person who wrote the second note.
- hga 14y agoWell, I think "passion" or something in that direction makes a big difference. I can tell that programming is my forte because when the going gets tough, sometimes solving a problem but most often when debugging, I have the drive as the first commentator put it to slog through it. And while I'm pretty good at system building and administration, when there's a messy bug to be found because something's not working there are few things I'd rather less do, solving it draws on my willpower in a way that's just not even comparable in programming. Even the hardest, takes weeks to find disjoint in time wild pointer bugs (well, weeks back in the days where I had to get my company to procure debugging hardware because the 808x family didn't have it built in).
- taeric 14y agoYou know what else "makes a difference?" Getting lucky. As smart as I would like to think I am, there are a couple of million kids in China alone that are smarter. Easily. Same goes for the majority of the "celebrities" we have in our circles. Hell, there is probably a large portion of folks this side of the pond that would qualify. Bringing it back to this, career questions are tough, because ultimately a small percentage of us can even do something about our careers. Changing careers is something that folks do rarely, in part because it so rarely works. Or, do you really think every middle aged delivery man is passionate about their job because they like delivery? My bet? They like their job because of what it can afford them to do.