Comment by falkensmaize
9 hours ago
I got into software later in life because I wanted to be able to send my kids to college, have healthcare and not destroy my body by 50. Up until my 40s I was a landscaper who had been an amateur programmer and technologist since my teens. I worked really, really hard to get where I am. I went to a bootcamp 5 nights a week for a year after breaking my back all day at my “real job”, while also taking care of a wife and two kids.
I enjoy what I do but I confess to being “in technology” because I need to earn a living not because it’s some sort of passion project. I think it’s pretty horrible to wish us all out of job so you can feel superior again.
It says a lot that you felt the need to recite an emotional sob story to try and attack my comment.
Regardless, I wish you all lose your jobs to AI and be forced to leave technology and earn money elsewhere. I think it’s been a disaster to the quality of the technology surrounding us and the community that creates technology to have so many opportunists just in it for the money.
Your response here says a lot about who you are as a person. Maybe it's time to step away from the keyboard and do some self-reflection and growing up.
I wasn't "attacking your comment", just trying to get you to relate to me as a human being. But I should've known that would be a futile exercise.
I'm good at my job, I like what I do and I work hard six years into my career. I just don't go home at night and do it as a hobby too. I know there are people like you would like to see me kicked out of the clubhouse for having needs and pursuing a career in one of the few middle class jobs left that pays a living wage. Sorry I'm not cool enough for you.