Re:Why I Love Coding (2012)
by tonyedgecombe on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:48AM
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>I do this for the love of the craft; not the money.
I think this is main point. Somehow introducing money into anything seems to drain all the pleasure out of it.
Re:Why I Love Coding (2012)
by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:29AM
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I have to agree. It sucks, because I have skills and experience that could make people with established corporations millions.
They just can't seem to bring themselves to work with people like me, unless they are doing the whole "alpha dog" thing.
The NPO I'm working with can't afford to pay me squat, but I'm not constantly mud-wrestling knuckleheads.
I never really took my hand off the programming wheel, while being a manager. I just wasn't being paid for it (bonus was that I have a big open-source portfolio). I just did open-source work in nights and weekends.
When I left my last company, I just made it my full-time vocation, and that went quite smoothly.
I do this for the love of the craft; not the money.