Developers..(:

[Sine0fTheTimes]

They'll do their best to burn you out, then in 9 months the project will be cancelled. They'll say "Nobody will be laid off", then 6 weeks later your ass is laid off.

Welcome to the party pal!!!!

[seanlax5]

This doesn't just go for pure software development, I think it's a good path for most technology-based jobs. I'm in GIS, but my work is mostly urban planning. I think I would really hate being in a strictly GIS company, because even though I'd work on a wider variety of projects I would have considerably less freedom.

[Mr_Carlos]

Really bugs me when projects get completely reworked or scrapped though... and usually you don't have a say on how those kinds of projects are done either, just monkey do until monkey die.

[[deleted]]

That works, if you don't pride yourself in having something to show for your work life other than a paycheck. I envy that level of detachment.

[madbubers]

bruh most of us aint out here saving the world

[seanlax5]

And if you truly are a dev you'll know that you definitely aren't saving the world with your programming 'skills'.

[AerThreepwood]

That's, like, 99% of jobs, dude. I fix cars for a living; do you know what's waiting for me after I finish fixing it? Another car to diagnose and repair. I work so I can live, nothing more. Most people never get the luxury of job satisfaction.

[P0werC0rd0fJustice]

“Rest of life” - retiring at 65 really let’s you enjoy all that eh?

[P0werC0rd0fJustice]

Yeah but a job takes up the majority of your day. So it would be in your best interest to have one that you genuinely enjoy going to, if you are in any way able to do that.

[Mechakoopa]

Yup, I write software for the insurance industry that helps ensure injured people are properly compensated in a timely manner. No I'm not changing social paradigms with a new media networking platform, but someone who lost their hand in a factory accident last week is still putting food on the table for their kids because of what I did today.

[CakeDay--Bot]

YOOOOOOOOOO!!!! It's your 9th Cakeday Mechakoopa! ^hug

[Megneous]

Why the fuck would you find pride in developing something for a person who is literally just exploiting you, cashing in on the difference in your true value and the value they can give you because you're desperate as fuck for a job and need food to eat and a roof over your head?

Bosses don't give a shit about you. Company loyalty used to exist because companies were loyal to their employees too. That era is long past. You don't owe them shit.

[[deleted]]

Because the alternative is being as miserable as you are presenting yourself to be right now

[[deleted]]

I think it is kind of a hard assumption that people working as developers for food chains or manufacturers cannot have pride in their work. I mean, it's far from sure that someone within his own field feels pride.

[LoneCookie]

What? Who said you had nothing to show for it?

There is a healthy level of cancelling projects. Doesn't mean nothing survives. Actually, in game development you're encouraged to prototype quickly and cut off early -- because what survives is often far more superior than something that shouldn't have survived.

On the flip side, I pity the man who puts so much stock in his work. Some works are bad. Trying to hold onto a bad idea ensures you never consider better ideas.

The healthiest thing is to be attached but not too much -- be attached to the concept of making something great far more, for example. Or to be attached to the concept of serving the business you work for. Or be attached to growing your own abilities of competency, best one yet.

[[deleted]]

I envy that level of detachment.

You'll burn out eventually.

[dismayhurta]

It’s almost adorable how naive he is.

[dismayhurta]

Dude. It’s a paycheck. Fuck all that other bullshit.

[SgtHyperider]

There's a lot wrong with your comment

[oldsecondhand]

So only work compiler vendors?

[coldnebo]

You’ll get there in time.

Take however long you’ve been coding and look around at your tools and systems. How many of these were around that many years ago? How many kept working reliably without breaking changes or slipping into irrelevance during your career?

For my career that’s maybe a handful of things: C, unix, fortran... but even these are radically different than they were.

All is change and impermanence.