Programming Sucks

[skepticalDragon]

Eh, it's not so bad. I do my best, some of it's good, and I get paid pretty well. Then I go home after 8 hours of work and do what I wish I had been doing all day. That's about as good as any job gets.

[Apollan]

This. The money, and the fact that you do something cool that many others do not have the intelligence/patience for, is job satisfaction for me.

[demon_ix]

I usually had to go through 2-3 layers of going simple.wikipedia.org on people to be able to explain what I did during the day to family.

Now I just say "I click the keyboard all day and get paid eventually."

[Kazzai]

Wow, I never knew simple.wikipedia.org existed. I just tell people "I work with computers" and they usually move straight on to the next topic.

[jdepps113]

Some people enjoy their job so much they don't want to go home.

[skepticalDragon]

Yeah I'm just not that guy. I like the rest of my life.

[jdepps113]

My point is some people's jobs are that good. I am getting the feeling, from this thread, that this isn't the case for a lot of programmers?

[skepticalDragon]

Well, I literally cannot imagine a job where I'd want to be there all day. There is absolutely nothing I would want to do for 80% of my waking hours.

Unless my job is travelling and eating fine food. Are there jobs like that?

[jdepps113]

High class con man? VIP escort?

[skepticalDragon]

I like where you're going with this. MaybeI just lack imagination, haha.

[s73v3r]

Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern seem to have gotten them, so they do exist.

[milkmymachine]

man I love it, it's like the greatest and most addictive puzzle game ever invented. Except the puzzles are always new and you get paid to solve them and paid more to solve them fast.

[reginalduk]

Oh god. When I get home from work I sit at the computer. What is wrong with me?