Gregory's Server@jsbarretto @Sweatshirt I'm lucky that I love my work. Haven't always been able to say that but much of what I do daily is the type of thing I would seek to do even if my needs were already met. And while it may not be a doctor's level of societal contribution, I know my work brings people joy so that's good enough for me :)
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@jsbarretto @Sweatshirt how so? You know they say that for engineers spend upwards of 60% of their time thinking, not coding. And iteration is the core of all sorts of product creation. It's not wasted of it took you down the path that led to the finished product. Mistakes or poor design choices aren't wasted effort if you learned something from it :)  @neatchee @Sweatshirt Oh I'm fine with the iteration. It's the misguided business decisions, the cancelled projects, the time spent interfacing with systems that have deliberately been made obscure or turned into walled gardens (looking at you, AWS) for the sole reason that it's profitable to do so, the fact that very little code that gets written even makes it into production and goes on to meaningfully benefit people instead of being used as a tool for maintaining those walled gardens. |
@neatchee @Sweatshirt That's awesome :) I'm also relatively happy with my job, but I can't help but feel that *most* effort that goes into modern software development is wasted effort.