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ziq wrote

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Been doing it for 13 years. Only gets harder with time. I learned to bombard my mind with happy thoughts to get through it. Like a drug I can release in my brain on command.

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surreal wrote

many respects to anyone that can handle this, i don't think i will for too long even though i'm working on stuff i like atm.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

I lucked out by getting into tech. My original motive was greed. But the real advantage is that the better you get at writing software, the more interesting your work is.

It's still not as much fun as sitting on a warm beach sipping lemonade.

I'm not saying that anyone working in software has any obligation to improve their skills and knowledge. You're there to collect your paycheck, that's all. But I finish the most boring aspects of my work ten times faster than I did 15 years ago, and spend most of my time solving more interesting questions and that makes the eight hours far easier now than they were back then.

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ziq wrote

My only work motive is to have space to be alone with my thoughts.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

Damn. I respect your integrity, holy smokes.

I've been out of school eighteen years but I only worked for three companies. None have supported the military industrial complex or the advertising or surveillance industries directly, but two of the three support enterprise business so I'm still part of the problem.

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