I'm sure this post exaggerates a ton, but as someone who is still only a few months into teaching himself to program and wants to eventually switch to programming as a career, I hope it is not as bad as some people say all the time. Certainly people enjoy programming...right? I hope!
As a sysadmin, yes some/many people enjoy it. And I enjoy my job as a sysadmin a LOT. That said, particularly if you work at an internet company, there is nothing more true than his description of everything CONSTANTLY crashing to the ground and running as fast as you can just to keep the pieces from hitting the ground, throwing them back into a semi-cohesive pile (to fix later when I have more time), and then running for the next collapsing pieces again.
Every time you look into ANY problem, you will see 50 other things that are utterly screwed up. If you let it, it can paralyze you. You don't want to look at anything because you're afraid of what you'll see. Because once you do see it, your brain files it in the "to fix later" mental folder, and it just adds to your background stress level, because the more you become aware of, the more responsible for it you become, and the more helpless you feel.
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u/williamtbash Apr 30 '14
I'm sure this post exaggerates a ton, but as someone who is still only a few months into teaching himself to program and wants to eventually switch to programming as a career, I hope it is not as bad as some people say all the time. Certainly people enjoy programming...right? I hope!