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> If you love programming and are good at it, it is the best field there is. I read this and thought, he's right. Then I thought, this is actually true of pret
by sanoli 11y ago
> If you love programming and are good at it, it is the best field there is.
I read this and thought, he's right. Then I thought, this is actually true of pretty much any activity. Hadn't thought of it this way.
- Chinjut 11y agoYup. Hacker News is full of silly "programming exceptionalism", but programming is not all that fundamentally different from any other vocation. Go to a site for, say, doctors, and find people singing many of the same paeans to medicine that are here presented as specific to software engineering. People in many lines of work think that their field is the one thing truly worth doing.
- gohrt 11y agoI love baseball and I'm good at it, but it will never pay my bills. I am on a minor league team and I program to pay the bills.
- enraged_camel 11y agoThat's probably because sports can't really be considered vocations except by those who play them professionally. Minor leagues aren't really professional level.
- sanoli 11y agoSports is different, in that the number of positions available that are good enough financially are very, very few. So for sports, you're just not good enough. As an analogy, if you were a doctor in a smaller town, in a tiny hospital, and you loved it and were good, you'd be fine.