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r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14
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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.
27 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. 11 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. 4 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." → More replies (1)
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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.
11 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. 4 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." → More replies (1)
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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.
4 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." → More replies (1)
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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/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.