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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by flmontpetit on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:46AM (#20768646)
Yes. Being a software developer is easy. It's not necessarily the case, but I can think of no other trade that pays so well and offers so many opportunities for so little ability, effort, accountability, responsibility and stress.
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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by sol_remmy2 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:15AM (#20769007)
Where do you work? I'm in operations and spent 10pm-3am last night responding to an incident. There's a lady here going bald in her early 30s. Stress is high, responsibility is high, accountability is high, effort is high.

I can think of literally 1000s of jobs that are easier

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by flmontpetit on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:32AM (#20769212)
I'm a C# dev and the only anxiety I've experienced has lied in having to maintain garbage legacy code.
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