For a while now, and I must say it's killing whatever passion I had for the art. It's a nice job, and it's not like I dislike doing it, don't get me wrong, but everything I code seems really trivial and non-important now. I'm too familiar with the language I work with. There are no surprises, no ambitions, there is no real joy.
Don't ever get a job, /prog/.
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Anonymous2009-09-03 21:14
Where do you work and what do you work on?
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Anonymous2009-09-03 21:19
>>1 I'm fresh out of college and I expect that they give me a job programming all the most interesting and critically important parts of the project we're working on.
>>1 Welcome to the Real World(tm). As >>3-chan says you are now low man on the ladder; expect to pay some dues, kid.
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Anonymous2009-09-03 21:39
That's why you add secret viruses in your code that take over people's computers.
Then you can take over the world.
Or, do what I do and start a game company or whatever. Or join the Open Source movement and code whatever the hell you want. Though then you won't get paid. But then you can demand for people to donate, and claim it to be the reason why you haven't worked on the program in a while.
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Anonymous2009-09-03 21:50
>>3,4
As if ENTERPRISE software engineering would be a less boring activity.
Work is boring and/or not fun; that is why some people are willing to pay other people to do it.
The corollary is:
When something becomes fun they will charge you for it instead.
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Anonymous2009-09-03 23:43
You need to consider that you may have enough ambition to consider entrepreneurship or contracting (the latter will require you build your resume with a base level of experience first, though).
I have a bucketload of reasons that I am not particularly fond of corporate work. One of these is >>3. Seniority.
On the other hand I have never been ambitious or self-motivated either. But I'd probably rather bite my own cock off than show up in a suit & tie to be a fucking code monkey.
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Anonymous2009-09-04 1:30
If you have free time between your assignments, here's what you should do: work on your own, interesting projects using the company's time. No one, not even other programmers, can tell code in the same language apart at a glance. It will seem like you're always busy on whatever trivial shit they gave you. This works best if you're supposed to wait for assignments, rather than ask for assignments. This way you can hone your skills and get paid for it.
>>10 This works best if you're supposed to wait for assignments, rather than ask for assignments.
So it never works at all? Enjoy your lack of promotions.
This is weird stuff. I'm in my first programming job and I'm loving it. Okay, so it's mainly vb6 and vb.net, but still. Also, I do get payrises every year. As things look now I don't have any desires to look for another job in the next 5 years.
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Anonymous2009-09-04 13:10
>>18
How long have you been programming? I find VB6 and .NET mentally painful.
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Anonymous2009-09-04 13:14
>>19
I've been programming for about 5 or 6 years. I only had this job since march though.
vb6 IS mentally painful. It took me a fair few months to get the hang of it. .NET on the other hand isn't too bad, really. Then again, I come from self-taught java, so it was an easy transition.