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Fuck computer programming as a career
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[quote:Nev6502:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTU4NjA0XzQ2QzJERTNG] The only way to become successful and happy with it is to solve your issues. What is your issue right now? Faster and cheaper. Why haven't you designed a framework to make things faster and cheaper, with absolute ease, tailored specifically to the types of projects and style of code you use? I'm a programmer by profession, and ever since I did that, I've coded about 75% less, and made about 45% more money. Don't blame the profession -- blame your ability to overcome your obstacles and perform the steps necessary to get out of hell. I get the feeling that you're burnt out, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines more than you actually needed to. I've been there. Try getting yourself out of the burnout, taking some stress reduction steps, and then going into it again with the fresh mindset of creating the above mentioned framework. If you make your tools, then you can control the difficulty and amount of work necessary. Whatever you do -- in this industry its VITAL to think outside of the box in heated situations. [/quote]
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I'm sick and tired of it. I've been programming now for well over a decade and I simply can not write another god damned line of code. It's the same shit over and over again. Make it faster, make it cheaper, make it faster, make it cheaper is all you fucking hear at work and all you see in job postings.
Why in the fuck does any of it matter? Let's run on a treadmill our entire lives so people can have a fucking faster smartphone. Fuck them.
Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars so algorithms can trade a few microseconds faster. Fuck it.
Let's waste countless man years so the corners of windows are curved and semi-transparent because that shit really matters. Fuck it all.
Let's rewrite the same website infrastrucure in a the latest fad language every couple of years so we all can pretend to be busy bees. Fuck that.
Is there any way out of this treadmill of a life? I highly doubt it. Mankind won't stop in this path to exponential insanity until we are left with nothing but a smouldering pile of ruins we once called civilization.
People can barely keep up with their workload at the office and all the chores at home yet every day you get to work and it's MOAR MOAR MOAR.
And you know what? It's the 0.1% at the top that are *demanding* that every single thing below them cut costs, increase efficiency all so they can see a little MOAR money that they did the month before. Can they even spend the money they make? No, but they still need MOAR and it will come out of your SOUL!
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