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Re:Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job? by garbene on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:41AM (#25880215)
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling.

My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.

Re:Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job? by xupybd on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:21AM (#25890580)
Ha that was my job for many years. Training and mentoring is not something you I've experienced in the software industry.