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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by pyrrhotech on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:17PM (#10999964)
Work is called work because it isn't supposed to be fun. If your's is remotely tolerable, only requires your time from 9 to 5 and pays you enough to cover all your necessities and even some luxuries you are better off than 95% of the world. Life's a bitch, then you die. At least you make enough money to not have to do it past your 40s if you don't want to.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:06AM (#11001339)
Eh, no. Work is called work because it's supposed to produce something. If all it does is drive you nuts, waste your life and fill the world with garbage, then what's the point of it? You might as well give it all up and go tour the world with nothing but the clothes you wear.

And what's that I hear, about getting a pension in your 40s'? Wasn't that what the Greeks did wrong, that they wanted to get a pension in their 40s, and that's why their economy died?

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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by jacalata on Saturday January 30, 2016 @03:59PM (#11003719)
Nobody mentioned pensions, the comment was saying you should save up your own money.
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