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by rvieira
1423 days ago
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Before becoming a professional programmer, I programmed. I now program for a living. My hobbies also include learning new languages/frameworks/libraries, playing with frontend for my personal site (I'm not a frontend dev in $DAY_JOB) and reading on the history of computing (although I have non-programing hobbies). When I'm retired I'll probably keep on doing it. I don't know if there's an end goal. I guess this is not just for programmers. I imagine many chefs are the same way. Cook for a living, cook at home, read books about exotic foods, make a nice meal. That's pretty much it. I've read some time ago a discussion on how people that code most of their waking hours are an "unfair" competition to programmers that just want to do it 9 to 5. Believe me, I'm no competition. I'll be probably reading on how to make nice SVG flowers in Forth at 1am. |
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And I don't think it's unfair any more than for automechanics or woodworkers or anything else.
If you're only in IT because it's seen as paying well, I can't express how little sympathy I have for that complaint.
Really just think about that, it's unfair that I spent a million hours figuring out how to get tech to do things instead of going to parties I wasn't invited to by those same people, and they didn't, and now I know how to do things and get paid for it, and that's unfair?
Unfair would be if you want to talk about the uneven distribution of the luxury and opportunity to spend a million hours playing with IT stuff. Not everyone has or had the access to the toys and the time to play with them, but you can say that about everything else also, like every musician or artist.
Is it unfair that their favorite guitarist really loved playing and practing 24/7 all their life? It's so unfair they can't just punch in somewhere at 9 and punch out at 5 and not e en like guitar or be very good at it, and still be a rock star?