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Fuck computer programming as a career
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30981074:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTYwMjk3XzhCMTRDRTJG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 33421829:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTYwMDI1Xzg1NkFBMkE2] i wrote the post earlier in this thread about leaving programming 10 yrs ago and now being on food stamps after a subsequent business failure. Just wanted to add - for me there were a few Epiphanic incidents that led me to finally leave programming. One of the most memorable and fateful was - I went to see the band Yes at the PNC bank Arts center in NJ. as an aside, the Art Center has a roof but open walls. Anyway, it was a warm breezy evening, watching the Sunset while listening to Yes, very close to the front, as in those days I could afford $300 tickets with concierge service. It was a fantastic show and when I walked out of that place, it hit me like a ton of bricks how much I hated my life and felt it was all going to waste in a toxic corporate hell, working with people I generally despised as robots, writing code for big Pharma, which is tough because I hate Pharma as well. I felt like a pressure that had built up over a decade was squeezing my head like a vice, literally. It was not long after that that coincidentally my contract with Pfizer was cut short in favor of the Indian contractors on H1B visa's who were being paid much less than me. So I never went back after that. One big mistake I made was leaving NJ and going to Sunny Florida. That place is a toilet full of poverty, and I would advise anyone else thinking of going there to think twice. By 2009 I finally managed to get back to NJ - which despite its reputation, has some very beautiful rural areas. And its not poor - at least not in my area. In fact its the fourth richest county in the USA. [/quote] For me it's being out of a job in finance and not wanting back in since I loathe the fuckers and in return loathe myself for doing the work. I'll be sure to steer clear of Florida, friend. [/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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