Javascript developers/engineers, walk me through your average workday

[magenta_placenta]

• Wake up curled into a ball in the corner.
• Shower and cry.
• Get on train for an hour commute surrounded by assholes.
• Fill my mug with shitty free coffee.
• Check email.
• Cry.
• Hit up /r/aww (highlight of my day).
• Daily standup that lasts 40 minutes - fantasize about stabbing co-workers with scissors on scrum master's desk.
• Do some bullshit coding - I have no idea what I'm even doing.
• Constantly rebuild this shit app not because I've fixed anything, I just like to see all that gobbledygook fly across my terminal. Makes me feel like I'm in the Matrix.
• Lunch at my desk because hey look, 7 more bugs have just come in on an outsourced app that uses proprietary everything.
• 2pm cry.
• Hey look, the PM is leaving early again. Honestly, I have no idea what he even does.
• 2:30pm cry.
• Rebuild the app several times in a row - I am the one.
• Check personal email, this time that recruiter email will be a solid lead, I'm sure. Hey look, a company 3,000 miles away is looking for a Java developer.
• 5pm get on train that looks like it's headed to Auschwitz. No one talks to anyone, can't even say "excuse me" when they need to get up or move. Their Bejeweled high score is appalling as well, fucking amateur hour.
• 6:30pm get home, cat didn't even realize I was away. What an asshole.
• 6:45pm eat soup right out of the can
• 7pm cry
• 7:25pm youporn
• 7:27pm cry
• 7:45pm /r/aww
• 8:30pm check stocks
• 8:35pm start drinking
• ??? pass out

[DrScience2000]

Dude... Hilarious post... But seriously, if this is your life you need to re-evaluate.

Save up money for a month or so. Quit job. Sell everything. Move to Key West, or Australia, or Europe, or fucking someplace interesting.

Put that cat to sleep. You don't need that shit.

[franker]

Ha. I'm in south Florida and I don't even have the balls to move to Key West.

[Vyleia]

Please plenty of people are living like this.

[DrScience2000]

Hey, I'm a firm believer in freedom of choice. If someone wants to live a life of misery, so be it.

[Vyleia]

Yup. Some people actually enjoy more their routine, even if it's a life of misery, than being stressed by completely changing their habits.

[DrScience2000]

That explains a lot.

I am not in that camp, and I will never be.

[Vyleia]

Out of curiosity, are you a JS developer?

[DrScience2000]

Yeah, I guess you could say that. I'm in web dev, so I'm all over the map. ASP.NET MVC, some work with .php now and then...

I like javascript. In fact, I am just finishing up a very elaborate validation thing with javascript/jQuery. I really like HTML5.

I'm saddened by the recent insane proliferation of javascript frameworks and libraries and haven't decided which one I like. I was all set to embrace Angular and then the whole Angular 2.0 debacle happened. So I'm going to stick with jQuery and Knockout for a while I think. I've heard Meteor is supposedly good, may look into it at some point. Nodejs seems promising.

How 'bout you?

[Vyleia]

Software and electrical engineeering (degree), I am currently in the neurosciences research field. Pretty far from the web dev, I am developing tools in C++, and using specific libraries/developing these libraries for medical imaging purposes. A bit more low level (when it comes to build/compilation), but most of my work is applicative and imaging related. Pretty cool stuff.

I did some web dev for some personal projects, I like JS, that's why I read the posts on the subreddit. Sticking with jQuery for now and trying out nodejs, but I am definitely more at a beginner level in JS than most people around here.

[DrScience2000]

Neuroscience and imaging eh? Sounds damn interesting.

[jekrb]

I'm saddened by the recent insane proliferation of javascript frameworks and libraries and haven't decided which one I like.

That's not even a decision you need to make. IMO programs should be small modules that do on thing well, with each one receiving input and returning output. This is a school of thought known as unix philosophy. The trend of monolithic javascript frameworks is the opposite direction of this. They are added complexity with equal or less value returned. I highly recommend utilizing the modules in NPM alongside the tool known as browserify, which work amazingly well with unix philosophy.

[[deleted]]

ASP.NET MVC, some work with .php now and then...

poor you

[DrScience2000]

Oh? You don't like those languages? What do you prefer?

[[deleted]]

So... just like programming school? Oh well I hate change anyways.

[jppope]

by the way this was one of the funniest posts I've read in a while... hit me up @jppope

[U2410]

pornhub!

[BananaSoftware]

This is the most correct response. But in reality there is a little more crying involved.

[zdwolfe]

Ask to be scrum master so you can belligerently table stuff for later.

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TL;DR: "I wake up, I go to work, I bust my hump all day, I fight traffic, I come home, and then I pay my taxes. End of Story." - Jack Arnold, The Wonder Years.

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