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i enjoy chopping vegetables much more than most people, and i'm told i'm quite good at e.g. making sauerkraut - an activity i truly enjoy. but i get paid a lot
by q845712 12y ago
i enjoy chopping vegetables much more than most people, and i'm told i'm quite good at e.g. making sauerkraut - an activity i truly enjoy. but i get paid a lot more to write software, which is also reasonably fun.
to be honest i think i only enjoy writing software about as much as the next person! can we be honest that it's an absurdly good job currently?
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
- marcosdumay 12y ago> i only enjoy writing software about as much as the next person The "next person" completely dislikes it. Almost everybody with such twisted tastes as to like creating huge incomprehensible orders to machines is already a programmer.
- bshimmin 12y agoWould you enjoy chopping vegetables if you had to do it for 40 hours a week? Would it become a little less pleasurable, perhaps, if someone were sending you emails asking why you haven't updated the carrots ticket with your current progress, or moved the potatoes card on the Kanban board? (I have a bit of a thing for grating cheese - I find it strangely therapeutic.)
- q845712 12y agoagreed!