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by monkeycantype 2377 days ago
I think the world would be a better place if we all took a few days on the shitty jobs.

I spent a few years doing a few days dev and a few days labouring, wading in waist deep water planting out wetlands:

https://www.australianecosystems.com.au/wetland-construction...

It wasn't easy to juggle, and taking phone calls in the swamp about dns config and database connection strings was awkward.

In the early days, everyone was part time, once the company was better established, i was a tourist in a full time crew and it didn't mesh