[kropotkinlives]

I'm playing "with the big boys" i.e. 500 million market cap enterprise financial. I'm not sure why I do this other than it's easy to disappear into the noise occasionally and put my feet up. In fact if we disappeared tomorrow there would be a chorus of "meh".

The space shuttle we have is, to paraphrase [1], made from piss-soaked snowflakes and we are crossing fingers that it isn't all going to melt in our hands overnight.

Sometimes it does dissolve in our hands and at that point, that's when the extensive hordes of ancillary staff roll out to lick butt.

So when you think that you're playing with wooden blocks, you're right, but you're probably doing it a bit better than piling them up randomly for the highest margin to support a massive hierarchy of unnecessary staff. And you're right, it is pretending. But it makes money, and that's all they care about at the end of the day.

Good luck for you still have hope of doing an honest job.

[1] http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

[phyalow]

LOL @ 500 bucks. Thats small cap.

[kropotkinlives]

It's the arse end of the ranking but the rate of growth is scary and that's what matters.