Advice to programmers: Get a government job

Re:Advice to programmers: Get a government job by jrockway on Sunday December 14, 2008 @09:00PM (#397863)

Get a government job if you want to be financially fed from a tube til death, probably doing tedious, monotonous work.

As opposed to a corporate job, where you get all the monotony but don't get the feeding tube?

I personally wouldn't want either -- but not everyone in the world is very smart or very motivated. In that case, they might as well get a pension.

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Re:Advice to programmers: Get a government job by thomasmallen on Sunday December 14, 2008 @09:52PM (#397911)

Corporations are a subset of the private sector. I never mentioned corporate jobs except in reference to PG's essay.

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