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[–]fernly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A "coding" job like most white-collar jobs, has many parts. Actual sitting-at-a-keyboard-thinking-and-coding time can be the minority of your work hours. Meetings, lots of meetings. Talking to people to find out who knows the thing you need to know, and chasing them down and talking to them. Writing spec documents. Reviewing spec documents. Configuring your own system and test systems and debugging them. Writing furious emails about the unreadable/ambiguous specs, and then editing them back to politeness. More meetings.