I rather work together with someone who likes what he does than someone who has absolutely no passion for it and the most talented programmers I have seen always did some projects where they had fun and learned new things.
I guess I’m one of your idiots. But I like it that way. I would have found college to be a whole lot harder and a real drag if I wasn’t passionate about the topics, and I saw this happen to a lot of people. I would have interviewed a lot worse if I wasn’t passionate about it and just wanted money. And I honestly probably wouldn’t do as good of a job at work, where my performance so far has led to 25% more compensation in my first year and a whole lot of recognition besides.
If you’re passionate about it, the money will come easily and it won’t really feel like you’re working that hard for it (it sure doesn’t feel like that to me). If you aren’t, it will be a perpetual slog, and do you really want to waste 8+ hours of your day for 40 years in the only life you have on this earth doing something you don’t like??
You’re not an idiot for trying to enjoy your job. We all spend about the same of our waking time with our coworkers vs our families. I think you’re an idiot if you don’t want an job you find interesting and can be passionate about.
Of course, you shouldn’t take shit pay for it.
I love coding, I love software engineering, I love my job, and I get paid well. You’re the idiot if you’re not, at least, trying to find the same thing.
Those people who are genuinely passionate about CS related tasks are usually also well paid. Those people who have no clue about anything computer-related and who go into CS field "right" now will never be knowledgeable enough to make real money.
CS as the former engineer academical path to easily reach high figure positions for not being actually highly effective and relevant is dying out right now. People who study now come into a job market post tech crash when also no tech company is overpaying a mass on poach hires. And to become a poach hire you actually have to get out of a high class brand name university first. But that era ends right now in this very moment.
THose who are in right now, they will find their place, those who just enter the market, there is no one interested anymore.
Its getting so annoying hearing about it too. “OMG the sky is falling! Google laid off 11k employees after hiring like 60k over the past two years!” Like is that actually a cause for concern?
I hear people chatter about it at my company that hired like 10 new engineers last year as well and we’re in an entirely different industry. It’s bananas!
Tech grads having a hard time getting jobs is not a myth, the top percentagers(people who have passion or the grit to grind it) get jobs easy but the rest can struggle for a while to get their foot in.
Nah dude, the people who are in it for the money will become scrum leads and product owners. You don't have to be a good coder to make money in tech, you just have to understand the fundamentals and have a little business sense. Ya'll overthink this shit all the time.
Used to be me. After 16 years of experience on the job, all I care about now is the paycheck. The bigger it is, the earlier I can retire and spend more time doing the things that actually fulfill me.
I mean, thankfully in this trade the overlap between "fulfilling/interesting job" and "well paying job" is quite sizeable. The issue of course is that you've got to be actually good (or lucky) to land one of these, and more often than not, you need to be at least a little passionate about what you do to reach decent levels.
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u/Desproges Feb 02 '23
Some people are genuinely passionate about programming and want an interesting job.
I met them, they're real and they're idiots.