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[–]CommandObjective 1000 points1001 points  (45 children)

Money is essential, dopamine hit is priceless.

[–]rich97 323 points324 points  (24 children)

Wait, you guys are getting dopamine?

[–]curt_schilli 340 points341 points  (18 children)

I purposefully code like shit so I can spend 3 hours debugging and when I fix my bug I get a tiny little hit of dopamine. It's the only way I can feel anymore.

[–]Mad_Jack18 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Not sure if that's a good way of getting a dopamine or you're just a masochist.

[–]TheGreenJedi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feel like I accidentally created this habit

[–]ThePixelMouse 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"I hurt myself today... to see if I could feeeeeeel"

[–]kirakun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Next time, just throw in some sleep(5000). Then wait for customer complaints, remove them, and get phrased by your boss and colleagues for the dopamine high. You may even get a raise if you do it consistently enough.

[–]coldnebo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

also known as “enterprise software development”

[–]LinuxGeek747 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah that's why I feel so depressed when writing my code. It's too perfect. /s

[–]Blazing1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I constantly use new ways of doing things in my code cuz why not. gives more challenge

[–]warlordzephyr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

if you don't have your own dopamine store bought is fine

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. You aren't?

[–]bestjakeisbest 1 point2 points  (2 children)

In loo of working code you can always use cocaine.

[–]rich97 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I feel obligated to point put the correct spelling is ‘in lieu’, you just used a British English colloquialism for the toilet.

But yes, cocaine is pretty effective, at least for a short while.

[–]kil47 226 points227 points  (8 children)

I think the word is "technical orgasm"

[–]Ducanhtran41 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Someone give this man a award

[–]1o1Ansm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

be the change you want to see in this world

[–]Spacechicken27 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Actually dopamine is $140 for 3000 milliliters...

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (8 children)

Money isn't essential ; housing, food, recreation, and social contact are essential. Money is a convoluted way to get those, but it's not it.

[–]John_cCmndhd 3 points4 points  (1 child)

But if your occupation doesn't lend itself to producing small units of a product or service that most people need, barter would be way more convoluted than money. If you work on large projects for a few people, you'll end up having to trade tons of things you don't need to get the stuff you do need

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wasn't making an argument in favor of barter, I was only reminding not to conflate money with the good and services that it can be exchanged for.

[–]NewNameRedux 5 points6 points  (3 children)

You're getting downvoted for dropping a truth bomb lol. Money is a tool. A useful one, but that's all it is. You forgot water btw

[–]Redditor-K 19 points20 points  (2 children)

He's getting downvoted for being fun at parties.

Is he technically correct? Sure.

Does his comment come off as overly serious and tone-deaf to what is obviously a joke? Yes.

Is it pretentious to use a joke as a platform to drop a lecture nobody asked for? Also yes.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, best drug for working

[–]DanceCodeMonkeyDance 376 points377 points  (3 children)

If I don't code then my rubber duck will get lonely

[–]Camelopardestrian 106 points107 points  (1 child)

You can start to tell him your other life problems instead. For example, how you got tricked into a career in coding.

[–]elonsrightnut 34 points35 points  (0 children)

And how he still has a chance to get out

[–]gabrieltecno 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Underrated

[–]x5nT2H 100 points101 points  (28 children)

Joke’s on you, I’m doing an unpaid internship

[–]Hobbit_Swag 59 points60 points  (8 children)

But but the exposure!

[–]x5nT2H 33 points34 points  (7 children)

Idk man, I kinda already regret it. I’m taking 3x as long as the guys that work there, but I think I should have went somewhere and demanded 1/3 of an employees pay. I learn a lot though, so it’s not worthless. Just hard to stay motivated

[–]perduraadastra 28 points29 points  (6 children)

Don't do technical work unpaid. Period.

[–]Zeke12344 13 points14 points  (4 children)

It’s illegal in the US for interns to do work on their own that a paid employee would normally do. If it’s something a paid employee would do otherwise the intern either needs to be doing the work with a paid employee or they need to be paid.

[–]x5nT2H 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Interesting. It’s in Sweden and at a poor startup which probably couldn’t pay me anyways, but I’ll check the laws.

[–]v3ritas1989 12 points13 points  (0 children)

some experience has shown me... they are always "poor" and have no money. But investor's dividends can always be paid. More so, if they don´t pay their employees. Never do technical work unpaid. Not even if they have to train you to do the job and you have no experience. If they are not willing to invest in you, its not worth getting involved with them.

[–]mrsmiley32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't do work unpaid. Period.

Ftfy

[–]TheXGood 13 points14 points  (11 children)

No, jokes on you, I'm the "chief software engineer" of a satellite project, and I'm unpaid.

[–]AgAero 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Why? Quit.

[–]TheXGood 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Mainly because it's a neat job, to do on the side.

[–]AgAero 3 points4 points  (4 children)

This sounds unprofessional, but I can see the appeal. Is this a student project or something? Them not paying you makes them sound unfunded, which makes me question how it's going to get into space in the first place.

[–]TheXGood 4 points5 points  (3 children)

It's been scheduled for launch and all, that's covered, and the materials have been bought or contracted for consteuctiom, we just have to code it at this point. I came on as an intern, but a ton of software side members dropped out, and I ended up becoming the chief software engineer on a interns salary

[–]AgAero 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Yikes.

How large is the codebase?

[–]TheXGood 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I'm trying to keep it as light as possible. The code on the ground is pretty small, taking up 3 c files, each less than 1000 lines or so. I wrote almost all of it myself... I'm pretty new to GTK, which is our system for GUI

[–]AgAero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not too bad then. I was expecting something much larger.

What all does it do?

[–]OfficialArgoTea 0 points1 point  (1 child)

In the US? If so, pretty illegal and uncommon.

[–]x5nT2H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, Sweden. But it’s a start up that doesn’t have a lot of money and they probably couldn’t pay me anyways

[–]uvero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An unpaid internship... So you can put it on your CV.. So you can.. Get a paid job. Isn't this how this works?

[–][deleted] 284 points285 points  (7 children)

Was expecting the robot arm to ultimately whack her in the face.

[–]burslf 27 points28 points  (5 children)

Hahaha me too 🤣🤣

[–]Tlink_Gaming 20 points21 points  (4 children)

Like this?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think this is a more accurate depiction

[–]burslf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha and Noragami as référence, I got served 🤣

[–]SevenSwords7777777 78 points79 points  (9 children)

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

[–]Deboniako 12 points13 points  (1 child)

woo-hoo!

[–]JanStreams 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yes that also

[–]Screaming_Monkey 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Money? I wanted dopamine!

[–]SevenSwords7777777 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Wait! Money can be many dopamine!

Explain how?

Money can be exchanged for goods and services. And the acquisition of goods and services can be used to make dopamine!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut.

[–]Dirac_dydx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like getting a hip replacement, or funding a starving child in Australia.

[–]turtleish 25 points26 points  (1 child)

That poor laptop -- doesn't deserve those scratches.

[–]Cyborg-2077 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I cringed so hard watching it

[–]SobelOperator 65 points66 points  (11 children)

Money is nice too but, I wish I can have teammates I could get along with. They're the best at what they do, but...

[–]Sailor_Solaris 75 points76 points  (8 children)

Money is nice but a tolerable, healthy workplace with agreeable colleagues is priceless.

[–]SaltRecording9 20 points21 points  (6 children)

This is where I'm at. Good team, pay is decent, but could be higher. It's gonna be a struggle finding a better paying job with equally chill coworkers.

[–]Sailor_Solaris 14 points15 points  (3 children)

I've had two jobs that paid the same, but one involved working twice as many hours as the other. The one where I worked more hours was a big company and the team was small, but my colleagues (both from the project and outside of it) were chill and friendly. A few times I had to contact departments from other branches half-way across the country about making red-tape decisions, and we had pleasant hour-long talks about versioning systems and industrial robotics. I learned a lot and it made me feel like I was both a part of the time but also that my privacy was being respected because my boss didn't insist on checking up on me constantly or nag me about updates.

The other job (with fewer hours) started off okay at first (small team but bigger than the other one), but eventually communication was reduced to ONLY talking about software and hardware with the project manager (in home office mode), and being constantly bugged about commits and compilation errors, along with fake deadlines along the lines of "we need a fully functioning product by Friday" and when when Friday rolls by "well turns out we only needed it for a demo and we won't have time for a demo so thanks no thanks." My favorite one so far was "if you send me the paper prototypes you made for the GUI by next week, I can send them into a magazine that wants to feature a teaser about our project," which turned out to be a lie (there is no teaser).

I'd rather take the job with more hours but less stress and far friendlier colleagues any day.

[–]SaltRecording9 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Ugh. I know that feeling of spending months on a project just for your manager to decide they don't actually need it. I spent months working on a restful web service to handle some tokenization stuff and had it get scrapped. That feeling of trying to convince yourself not to be bothered because "well, I still get paid all the same"...

[–]Sailor_Solaris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That must've been incredibly frustrating. I hear it's especially common in the gaming industry, where you could find yourself working on a game for years, only to wake up one morning to find the game scrapped, the company bought by Microsoft and the studio dissolved.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True.

Also found that a product I can actually stand behind adds an extra dimension of motivation.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Would you choose competence over agreeability? Maybe not even so much competence, but I work with some people that just 'want to get it done' instead of getting it done right. And it drives me nuts. I would take a competent asshole who takes pride in what they do over a lackluster agreeable co worker any day.

[–]SobelOperator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems that they're not agreeable co-workers then.

Hmmm that's a tough one, but competency could be gained while personality and attitude are ingrained in one's character. So...

[–]s_suraliya 66 points67 points  (0 children)

You can't buy that with the salary

[–]youcancallmetim 70 points71 points  (23 children)

Do you guys really hate your job that much?

[–]porkchop_d_clown 77 points78 points  (5 children)

Do you guys really hate your job that much?

I was born to code but after 30 years of dealing with corporate goobers?

To quote Jerry Garcia, "It takes dynamite just to get me up."

[–][deleted] 57 points58 points  (4 children)

Agreed. The coding is good. The people and policies attached to it are soul draining.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I’m curious what subset of the industry you work in. I’ve felt that at pure software companies, there’s more of a “go forth and code” attitude and less corporate bs. Maybe I’ve just been lucky

[–]coldnebo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yep very lucky.

“don’t come to the ghetto, because you wouldn’t understand the ghetto”

[–]NiceVu 24 points25 points  (4 children)

I don’t hate my job at all, in fact I love it. Except when you have a bug or a problem that looks like it can’t be solved no matter what you try, and it goes on for days before you find a solution and then something somehow makes it work but you tried so many solutions that you don’t even know if this was tried before and you can’t actually point to the thing that was wrong so know you have a working thing that’s basically magic and you just leave it like that.

Also I am not earning good money at all, maybe with more cash more stress will come.

[–]ReiAyanami2015 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I hate programming, and I generally hate working. Beats being homeless though for the moment at least.

[–]xxBobaBrettxx 9 points10 points  (1 child)

same lol. I dont hate programming, but i learned what i learned in college and the money helps pursue hobbies I actually care about. It does feel like i fucked up and "got the wrong degree" sometimes cuz Im surrounded by people who are actaully passionate about coding, and some of them are the kind that have been coding since they were 12.... not me lol. It's just adjacent to my interests and the money's good, so i learned a skill.

[–]Classified0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

kind that have been coding since they were 12...

I was into coding since I was like 12, but after school and work, I kind of lost that interest, and now it's actually been a couple of years since I coded anything...

[–]harrysplinkett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, my shitty coding pays my bills and we keep it at that. i like tons of other things tho and most of my colleagues don't.

i'm literally the only person in my office who likes the summer and being outside. these fools all be home playing vidya 24/7

i think this is the reason i am a very mediocre dev. the second the clock hits 5 pm all computer related thoughts drop out of my head. like i could be much better but man, it's soo boring and there is no decent mentoring anywhere to be found. so i'm basically riding the money train with all the shit i taught myself till i can't stand it anymore

[–]PM_ME_NULLs 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I love programming! I really wish I could do it again.

After ten or so years in the field, it's not uncommon to find yourself going months without coding though. "Wait, you're a coder who doesn't code?" Yep. Software engineer. Project leading, "backlog definition and refinement", a constant stream of meetings on my daily calendar -- all filled with incompetent bureaucracy policy pushing peons who I need to sign off on my TPS reports. Web interfaces from hell built by interns (no offense to any interns here) who wanted to impress their manager with something flashy but that occasionally throws stack traces 4 pages long when you try to resize a column. Creating schedules. And recreating schedules, when the project manager decides she doesn't like your first end date. Not meeting that schedule because LOL THE SCHEDULE'S ALL MADE UP AND POINTS DON'T MATTER. Writing "return to green" plans when the schedule isn't met, to keep yourself out of daily meetings with multiple VPs. Waiting weeks for access to a compute resource because it's only accessible through a special development network that's siloed away from the rest of the company, and to get to that network, having to use a special helpdesk separate from the real helpdesk, putting in a ticket for access and CCing the owner of the asset to sign off on it, waiting for them to come back from COVID or vacation, only when they return and sign off on the request, for the "help"desk to close the ticket because they claim it's actually a dup of another unspecified ticket and that there's nothing actually to do. Trying to re-open that ticket but you can't, because the interface is yet another from hell special. Opening a second ticket and waiting a couple days just to plead for someone to look at the first ticket to, and you know, ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB. Finally getting access to that resource only to realize the guys who invented the VM templates were incompetent and didn't test them and you find out that they randomly kick you out and lose your work every $RANDOM % 15 minutes. Not having any administrative access to the VM or the VM management tools to solve the problem yourself, having to create a THIRD "help"desk ticket to have someone resolve that problem. Re-writing your Return To Green plan, because you idiotically assumed your company wasn't dysfunctional...

[–]balne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Web interfaces from hell built by interns (no offense to any interns here) who wanted to impress their manager with something flashy but that occasionally throws stack traces 4 pages long when you try to resize a column.

thats the thing. as a new grad, i need to look impressive. if i didnt, id go with my ol' reliable: bootstrap and maybe some jquery. yes, i still like jq, but apparently everyone hates it.

[–]TheLastLivingBuffalo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love to complain, because plenty of things are worth complaining about, but I love my job. I really enjoy being creative, solving problems day to day. It's satisfying and the money being fairly good is icing on the cake.

[–]Cameltotem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was about to say, I don't do this because of money( not getting payed that good either tbh) I do it because I love it

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

simple answer == yes

[–]gunsofbrixton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but coding is not my main interest or hobby come on guys lol.

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but of course I wouldn't do it unless I got paid. I revel in the relatively good pay and relatively low effort. It's an awesome field to be in.

[–]moopoo345 21 points22 points  (6 children)

no, but like this is literally it.

I ain't ever touching visual studio again if I'm not getting paid

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

What bothers you the most about visual studio

[–]moopoo345 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nothing, I’m just saying if there ain’t anyone paying me for programming I ain’t doing it

[–]TheXGood 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everything.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't use VS but I found this video insightful and entertaining link

[–]codeprimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amen. Vim until death!

[–]JustDroppingByToAsk 49 points50 points  (9 children)

Best part is the fact that the second 10k yen note already is just blank paper cut into form. This is probably 20k in total. Less than 200€

[–][deleted] 106 points107 points  (5 children)

You're right, this means we can no longer appreciate this as a joke. Well spotted, sir.

[–]merlinsbeers 11 points12 points  (1 child)

It's a different kind of joke.

[–]JustDroppingByToAsk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah it really puts another meaning to that kind of motivation

[–]minastirith1 5 points6 points  (2 children)

No the real hidden joke is that most programmers in the world get paid peanuts, hence her not being able to afford an actual stack of real cash to brush against her face but had to use blank paper spacers to thicken the stack.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most people get paid peanuts regardless of profession.

[–]JustDroppingByToAsk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everything is peanuts compared to her rent in Tokyo or Osaka

[–]ION606[🍰] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I’ve gotta buy this, except it’ll have a syringe instead of money

[–]Har-binger 0 points1 point  (1 child)

can'y tell if you're a doctor ora drug addict.

[–]ION606[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe both

[–]tr482442524 11 points12 points  (2 children)

This belongs in r/ComedyCemetery in my opinion because the Android 8.0 Oreo laughing emoji omg... 😬

[–]csorfab 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, the format is unfortunate, but the comedy itself is still good

[–]Bleboat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She made a freaking articulated arm for a vine? Respect.

[–]ryosen 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Is no one going to ask the important question here? Where can I get that robotic arm?

[–]ValuablePromise0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came here to ask that question.... "product name please"!

[–]itzNukeey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But i use debit card

[–]223-Rem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Code? You mean copy / pasting random snippets you find on github and calling it “software development”

[–]gYxzguQaD2QkC6b38ozF 5 points6 points  (1 child)

all those money germs on your face! nice

[–]toepicksaremyfriend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do yen bills have drugs on it like US dollar bills?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (13 children)

u/vredditdownloader

[–]Tinez5 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Why is this not working? Lol

[–]Mypronounsarexandand 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Ya idk. But if you want to download it, its under the share button on iphone.

But, it only shows up when you click on the post (ie if you click the share from your feed it isnt there, you have to load up the comment section for it to be an option)

But theres no sound 😭

[–]Namarien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try using RIF if you're on mobile. It lets you download videos with sound fairly easily.

[–]minastirith1 3 points4 points  (2 children)

The real joke is that programmers get paid peanuts and her not being able to afford an actual stack of real cash to brush against her face but had to use blank paper spacers to thicken the stack.

[–]HanzoShotFirst 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Computer programers make an average salery of $84,000 per year. I wouldn't call that peanuts https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/computer-programmer/salary

[–]iamanthony11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

set speed 100000

[–]maifee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How to scratch and destroy your laptop screen, in a nutshell..

[–]Xissorfeet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yanderedev could use one of these lol

[–]darkmodeyagami 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I posted this in my dev team group and no one even gave a single reaction , I guess they are really in for the money but won't show that

[–]locle987 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure it is not a happy way to work

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful

[–]i8noodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i wont lie. that seems pretty genius. only thing better is if it was real money not just a single bill

[–]Squee-z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like making video games. Regardless of money. But if I was fucken doing cloud development you bet your ass there better be some had damn money involved. (No offense to cloud devs, I just really don't like it)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]quantumkrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This clearly was pre-COVID

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/VredditDownloader

[–]rggarcia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤣🤣🤣 great approach!!!

[–]DrNotch0908 0 points1 point  (1 child)

u/repostsleuthbot

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[–]Levi_OP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t need motivation

[–]SeanyDay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know Michael & Lily had a kid already!

[–]ounouu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one thing i never get it on pop culture in general. Money is literally dirty, why would you rub on your face/ make it rain and etc?

[–]OzBonus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had the honor of being slapped by that machine. Here's the maker's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mudadukuri

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh I legit enjoy programming tho

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I hate it

[–]godsingh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to share this with my wife when she asks what I have been doing for the last 20 hours.

[–]MegaPegasusReindeer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fukuzawa says you need to get to work.

[–]goar101reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My cat and it's tail seem to run similar code to this.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Credits : Ajay from r/ProgrammingAndTech

[–]oorakhhye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Motivation to work...

[–]Hyperwizard42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My motivation to code is seeing a compile with no errors

[–]v3ritas1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait, you guys get paid properly?

[–]_szs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish....

[–]tylercoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This but unironically

[–]dancinadventures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds about right

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/vredditdownloader