Gregory's Server@alcinnz It's kind of soul-destroying. Although I like my current employer, I'm constantly harassed by the hunch that very little of what I've produced in my career has been useful or even used by actual human beings. I just want to grow food, build furniture, and write open-source software.
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@jsbarretto @alcinnz There was a period earlier in my career working for commercial closed-source software development houses when fully fifty percent of what I was involved in building never made it to production. I got paid a salary and reinvested it into my community. The VCs who funded those companies took a haircut.  |
@jsbarretto @alcinnz
As a retired technical writer, I think of how short-lived the usefulness of my work was. It no longer has any value at all.
The community building work I am doing now without a paycheck, though, can potentially stay useful well beyond my lifetime because of the ripple effect of building supportive relationships.
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