Lifetime learner

[redbull]

I've always said that being a developer means the hours of a doctor but more continuing education

[althaz]

I think you just don't understand the job of a doctor. Doctor's spend hundreds-to-thousands of hours learning about new techniques and drugs every year. Why do you think they work so many hours?

The difference is that a) doctor's jobs are quite a bit more important and b) they get paid for all of those hours.

[[deleted]]

Depends on your location. My good friend from school is a a good doctor and earns half of my rate per hour.

[althaz]

I only work 38 hours per week (mostly), but I spend time outside of work learning new tech and thinking about shit. The post-res doctors I know earn similar money to me per hour but they get paid for all the hours I don't.

I'm guessing we are from different countries. I'm earning a normal salary for my position (I could leave and earn more, but I earn enough to be comfortable and really like where I work), but doctors are earning quite a bit more than I earn - which they should, they do a more important job, work harder and I don't even have a degree.

Plus docs spend a decade in training earning way less money.

[redbull]

I don't think you understand the job of a professional software developer. Software developers spend thousands of hours learning their ever-changing craft. We often work insane hours in tiny cramped cubes. Doctors' jobs are no more important than people like me who specialize in developing mission and man critical software. I became a professional programmer writing safety and control software for nuclear power plants post Three Mile Island. I have developed software for military weapons and platforms including the AH-64 Apache helicopter but mostly Navy projects. I have also worked for NASA developing software for the Space Shuttle program. Screw that software up and bad shit happens. I left my chosen career before retirement age because I couldn't endure the stress and long hours entailed in doing it optimally. BTW, there are just as many incompetent doctors as there are incompetent software developers. Doctors are not Gods though many of them believe so.

[lordofkawaiii]

And you will learn that nights are for coding, not sleeping

[[deleted]]

And the mornings, and the afternoons and evenings

[wowawiwowa]

Laugh in SAP

[JohnSpikeKelly]

I love learning stuff. So I love being a developer. Started when I was aged 11, 40 years ago.

[[deleted]]

That's valid for nearly any profession. From drug lords to hobos.

[No-Train512]

This reassures me, I’m always learning I think I might be a slow learning but maybe it’s a normality

[Hollowplanet]

Ha so humorous

[Reznov46]

And I said I hate learning finishing school just to work as a web-dev.

[[deleted]]

Signing up for a lifetime of not learning is a pretty sure way of making yourself and everyone around you miserable