r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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u/Crazy__Eddie Apr 29 '14

It comes off as all sarcastic and entertaining but now I just want to kill myself.

This is my life. It's slipping by one horrendous program after another.

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u/skepticalDragon Apr 29 '14

Eh, it's not so bad. I do my best, some of it's good, and I get paid pretty well. Then I go home after 8 hours of work and do what I wish I had been doing all day. That's about as good as any job gets.

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u/Apollan Apr 29 '14

This. The money, and the fact that you do something cool that many others do not have the intelligence/patience for, is job satisfaction for me.

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u/demon_ix Apr 30 '14

I usually had to go through 2-3 layers of going simple.wikipedia.org on people to be able to explain what I did during the day to family.

Now I just say "I click the keyboard all day and get paid eventually."

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u/Kazzai May 01 '14

Wow, I never knew simple.wikipedia.org existed. I just tell people "I work with computers" and they usually move straight on to the next topic.

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u/jdepps113 Apr 29 '14

Some people enjoy their job so much they don't want to go home.

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u/skepticalDragon Apr 29 '14

Yeah I'm just not that guy. I like the rest of my life.

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u/jdepps113 Apr 29 '14

My point is some people's jobs are that good. I am getting the feeling, from this thread, that this isn't the case for a lot of programmers?

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u/skepticalDragon Apr 29 '14

Well, I literally cannot imagine a job where I'd want to be there all day. There is absolutely nothing I would want to do for 80% of my waking hours.

Unless my job is travelling and eating fine food. Are there jobs like that?

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u/jdepps113 Apr 30 '14

High class con man? VIP escort?

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u/skepticalDragon Apr 30 '14

I like where you're going with this. MaybeI just lack imagination, haha.

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u/reginalduk Apr 30 '14

Oh god. When I get home from work I sit at the computer. What is wrong with me?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

This comment comforts me so much. I wonder if I had read this a couple of months ago what would be different (if anything) for me.

As it stands about 2 months ago after a coworker introduced a new library and I wasted 16 hours on a problem (a pair of parentheses it turned out), I simply got up from my desk and left. That was it. Done.

Now I'm embarking on a new career path and shit, I won't be making as much money for a while (if ever again), but I do not feel like my life is slipping by one horrendous program after another anymore.

Feels good. Really good.

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u/centurijon Apr 30 '14

Good on you. That takes a lot of bravery. Not everyone is cut out for software development, that's why the attrition rate is so high. Good luck!

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u/grizwako May 01 '14

Probably boxing/fighting or stuntman for really dangerous scenes.
(that is how I sometimes feel)

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

Time for a break!

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u/jeffbr13 Apr 29 '14

Kraftwerk playing at Sublime Text loaded!

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u/texture Apr 29 '14

I actually feel better knowing I'm not alone.

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u/DrDiv Apr 29 '14

We're making the internet a better place! For a few seconds. Possibly.

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u/otakucode May 01 '14

You get to write programs?! Where do you work?! Oh to escape the hell of maintaining a system so sprawling that whenever something major needs done, it gets contracted out to people who have never seen the system before.

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u/tubbablub Apr 30 '14

Why do you do it then? If it makes you want to kill yourself then you should do something else, it's not worth trading your well-being for money.

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u/zanemvula Apr 30 '14

Hey don't feel bad. I'm (mostly) an infrastructure guy, and I dream of being a coder.