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Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by agumonkey on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:54PM (#19158715)
The reverse is also true.. many IT jobs are procedure following and brainless.

I remember a story on reddit or SO about a plumber going into programming without a degree. He had no trouble thinking through most of the logic required saying it's just like its old job.

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Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by braindouche on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:26PM (#19165025)
I'm a programmer and as I told my auto mechanic, my job and his job are incredibly similar most of the time: take the thing, use experience and references to figure out why the thing isn't working, then use tools and resources to make it less broken, and spend a lot of time complaining about the quality of the work done on the thing before you got access to it.
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