Comment by mikkupikku
11 hours ago
Stop taking work so seriously. You're getting paid to deal with other people's nonsense, and if you're in tech you're getting paid better than most to deal with less than most. The next time you're about to have a cry session about your meanie boss asking you to use AI, try to remember that you're allowed to walk straight out the door, without so much as two weeks notice if the request is really so offensive to you. You can get a job flipping burgers instead, lots of people make ends meet with jobs like that. And instead of your boss asking you to use a claw or some other silly AI thing, maybe he'll ask you to clean up the diarrhea some degenerate sprayed on the bathroom walls. A little perspective for you. If you want to learn what the word "exhausting" really means, quit tech.
> You're getting paid to deal with other people's nonsense, and if you're in tech you're getting paid better than most to deal with less than most.
The problem is that you are paid for two things that are often contradictory to each other
1. writing good code
2. dealing with other people's nonsense
Many good coders really care about 1, so of course they are complaining.
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Concerning the argument that tech pays so well: this is very US-specific; in many other countries working in tech is rather some job that may pay the bills, but not more. So people who work there often do it because they are insanely passionate about programming.
This again, as I already outlined above, means that they really care about good code, and if "other people's nonsense" means sacrificing this, it will make the respective employees really furious.
This framing sucks. "I'm unhappy with the job I put years into honing my skills for, but since I make decent money I should shut up even when even things are happening that I don't like." And as if "flipping burgers" is the only alternative.
This is ironic in the context of Dang’s opening comment on this sub tree.
Fuck. thanks for the reality check. Sometimes this cozy job makes me lost perspective. Damn I feel stupid right now.