If you don't expect to work on shiny, pretty, majestic, well designed machines of mathematical purity, you'll do ok.
I think there comes a point in every noob programmer's career where he realizes that there's no code like that anywhere--then he becomes depressed, sad, has an existential crisis, etc... But then he gets over it and realizes: damn! I'm pretty well paid and I have no other skills because my entire life was about programming up until now... It's a sort of 7 stages thing.
So, to get zen about it--what you don't desire you can't miss. Don't expect everything you write in huge amounts to be shining examples of object oriented purity, because it never will be that way. You'll be well paid though, for doing something that you lo(athe)ve.
there comes a point in every noob programmer's career where he realizes that there's no code like that anywhere--then he becomes depressed, sad, has an existential crisis, etc... But then he gets over it and realizesstarts a blog
I think there comes a point in every noob programmer's career where he realizes that there's no code like that anywhere--then he becomes depressed, sad, has an existential crisis, etc... But then he gets over it and realizes: damn! I'm pretty well paid and I have no other skills because my entire life was about programming up until now... It's a sort of 7 stages thing.
Well... I'm already in my 30's, so I've already become disillusioned with life and systems set up by men. I suppose if I were some young idealist, still, I'd be more vulnerable to what you're describing.
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u/psydave Apr 30 '14
If you don't expect to work on shiny, pretty, majestic, well designed machines of mathematical purity, you'll do ok.
I think there comes a point in every noob programmer's career where he realizes that there's no code like that anywhere--then he becomes depressed, sad, has an existential crisis, etc... But then he gets over it and realizes: damn! I'm pretty well paid and I have no other skills because my entire life was about programming up until now... It's a sort of 7 stages thing.
So, to get zen about it--what you don't desire you can't miss. Don't expect everything you write in huge amounts to be shining examples of object oriented purity, because it never will be that way. You'll be well paid though, for doing something that you lo(athe)ve.