Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont...
by red-iron-pine on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:28AM
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Aye, same. The level at which my time was structured and accounted for on the blue collar level would astound the white collar folks. Entirely directed vs. entirely self-directed.
> It's like they took the people who couldn't work physically, made them feel superior, and for some reason paid them unreasonable wages.
Easy killer, you're projecting.
I could go back to being a bartender today, and could do 90% of the job (I'd have to refresh my memory how to mix a few drinks, but most of em are still there). I could probably go back to Private Investigator, or food truck work too.
But it took a whole lotta learning to get to the point where I can do my current white collar job. No one I bartended with could stay sober 4+ days a week or avoid DUIs; no way in hell I'd trust them with a production GCP cluster.
> It's like they took the people who couldn't work physically, made them feel superior, and for some reason paid them unreasonable wages.
Easy killer, you're projecting.
I could go back to being a bartender today, and could do 90% of the job (I'd have to refresh my memory how to mix a few drinks, but most of em are still there). I could probably go back to Private Investigator, or food truck work too.
But it took a whole lotta learning to get to the point where I can do my current white collar job. No one I bartended with could stay sober 4+ days a week or avoid DUIs; no way in hell I'd trust them with a production GCP cluster.