Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me
by NhanH on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:04PM
(#10999920)
You are not giving the writer enough charity with your interpretation. Almost every single programmers I personally know around his age shares the sentiment. Ranging from SV startup jobs to the FB/Google/Microsoft/AMZN, even some doing programming in countries half way across the world.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me
by jmspring on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:14PM
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So, a generation of entitled?
Me - I stay with a job (or side project or consulting) if it is fun and I am learning something. Pick and choose accordingly.
From the article -- "I write test automation to test the front-end" -- there were potentially interesting things here maybe some years ago, but he put himself into a position that frequently gets off shored and doesn't have a lot of room for growth/creativity.
Really, all these entitlement 20-something posts are basically the same in general content.
If you believe that there are a world-wide generation of entitled human, there is not much substance to be discussed.
I read the post as simple as the field where he grew up with turned out to be a much different thing in a (industrialized?) setting.
Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me
by tomreece on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:45PM
(#11000541)
I didn't know if I'd like testing or not. But I thought I would try something new. Comparing my daily work with the coders around me, I still think I'd pick testing because they literally just glue too many shitty api's together into an AngularJS application.
Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me
by Apocryphon on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:11PM
(#11000160)
We live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and productivity. Why shouldn't we be entitled?