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by 99112000
1018 days ago
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I think everyone struggles with this at a certain point in life and this extends beyond the tech sector. Understanding the impact of your work is not always easy, but it is a necessity to feel like you are performing meaningful work. What helps me is talking to customers and understand how our product makes their life better and what my role is in building the product. Whether you are picking fruit, flipping burgers or building tech, you are a little cog in a system that hopefully produces a net positive to humanity. |
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The thing is that the first two of those were always commodity jobs. "Building tech" was a specialization that until recently was not commoditized. And there are still niches where that's not true.
This hasn't only happened in software, of course. Look at medicine. It would be gut-wrenching to have spent a lifetime gaining specialized deep knowledge in healing people only to realize it's treated more and more like complicated burger-flipping now. And under constant threat of lawsuits, unlike most burger-flippers.