Life as a programmer
"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it's finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you've created. It has an abstract shape in your head that's completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus-de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe's head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer." - Nick Foster ("Life as a programmer")
The truth about working in the IT industry
1. We work weird (night) shifts…
Just like prostitutes.
2. They pay you to make the client happy…
Just like a prostitute.
3. The client pays a lot of money, but your employer keeps almost every penny…
Just like a prostitute.
4. You are rewarded for fulfilling the client’s dreams…
Just like a prostitute.
5. Your friends fall apart and you end up hanging out with people in the same profession as you…
Just like a prostitute.
6. When you have to meet the client you always have to be perfectly groomed…
Just like a prostitute.
7. But when you go back home it seems like you are coming back from hell…
Just like a prostitute.
8. The client always wants to pay less but expects incredible things from you…
Just like a prostitute.
9. When people ask you about your job, you have difficulties to explain it…
Just like a prostitute.
10. Everyday when you wake up, you say: “I’m not going to spent the rest of my life doing this.”
Just like a prostitute ….
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