Comment by abalashov
2 hours ago
That's an interesting perspective. It's hard for me to relate to it because I haven't worked in a job where I just have to ship code 'for work' in so long. Being a more or less one-man software company, all my work projects, but especially our products, feel like personal projects.
However, if I were just having to do things for the man, I might have a rather different take on all this.
You're probably 1 in 10 000 programmers. Most programmers are just regular employees, the vast majority in non tech companies.
Yup, I can definitely imagine that it's different if you're working directly for customers and have the freedom to do things however you want to do them as long as you still make a living.