[aristofun]

This sounds like programming was not your thing in the first place.

You probably were there just for the money and fashion.

Im not a born hacker myself, but this is something i can do better then the majority of the population. While i also can do many thinggs well with my hands - ill barely achieve same expert level as the best.

So why bother.

[giantg2]

Any programmer can program better than the majority of the population. Even if you define population as the population of programmers, being in the 51st percentile is still very grim.

[paulcole]

> You probably were there just for the money and fashion.

So?

You think plumbers do it for the artistry, honor, and love of the craft?

[aristofun]

So - this is the underlying reason of OP attitudes (a hypothesis). If it were the topic about plumbers - we'd discuss plumbers.

Btw, plumbers are definitely there not for easy money, not for super profits, not for fashion or for the hype.

Therefore they have 1000 times much more of my respect than all random mediocre programmers who just leveraged the temporary extreme lack of human resources — and now wining about the end of "golden age". And don't even have enough condifence in themselves and no respect for the craft to think they will not survive yet another market downtime.

[paulcole]

So what are plumbers there for?