Does Your Office Have a Library?

Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by quanticle on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:28PM (#34829914)

    How long would it take you to 180 and go into the your opposite profession?
    What is your opposite profession? Do you have any friends in that
    profession?

I'm not even sure how to answer that question. Do professions have "opposites"? One of my relatives is in medical school right now, studying to be a doctor. What's the "opposite" of that? Professional assassin?

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by bee_rider on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:37PM (#34830001)

Cigarette/Alcohol ads, maybe?

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by LemmyInThePub on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:59AM (#34832456)

Technically, he is already studying to be a drug dealer.

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by tobyjsullivan on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:42PM (#34830039)

The question certainly has "the sound of one hand clapping" vibes. Nevertheless, that doesn't preclude at least attempting to answer it.

For my job, software engineering, the job is essentially creating things that must adhere to the strict laws of software physics. Most often, someone (read: a product manager) comes to me with something they want to exist. I need to distill what I know about the system and it's internal mechanics to map the idea to a possible reality, then ship it.

What's the opposite of that? Maybe no concrete constraints, no creative problem solving, no creation of new stuff at all. Also, not working on a computer.

Given my job is 50/50 on teamwork and solo-work, I'm not sure what the opposite is there. Maybe I could say the teamwork is on coordination and the solo is on delivery; so the opposite may be solo coordination and interfacing on delivery.

So, my opposite profession is a door-to-door salesman? /shrug/

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by jppope on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:04PM (#34830183)

Perhaps something like sales, counseling, maybe something in early education?

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by flir on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:26AM (#34831123)

Programming is building models in an abstract environment, and mostly using fine motor control to manipulate those models.

Opposite might be a builder? Making concrete things in the real world with gross motor control.

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by marcosdumay on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:33AM (#34835782)

So, the opposite of building things would be building things?

That's the problem with the concept of "opposite". The opposite of something always tends to be very similar to the thing. If you want to get any kind of diversity out of your ideas, you should steer clear of it.

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