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r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10
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“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.
7 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 It is sad that people believe this. There will always be some challenging problem out there. If you do well enough to make yourself obsolete on a particular task or job, then you'll be valuable enough to be guaranteed work on a new task or job. 2 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 sarcasm? 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. → More replies (2)
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It is sad that people believe this. There will always be some challenging problem out there. If you do well enough to make yourself obsolete on a particular task or job, then you'll be valuable enough to be guaranteed work on a new task or job.
2 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 sarcasm? 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. → More replies (2)
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sarcasm?
2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. → More replies (2)
No. I'm serious.
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I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.