you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

"do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" is total bullshit.

It's more like "turn something you love into a job and you'll ruin it"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I feel very fortunate to be in software development. I genuinely enjoy my job. Not the jobby parts of it, but the actually problem solving and puzzle solving and trying to make something the best I can within the box I'm given to play in.

    I don't know if I could handle another job, though one summer I loaded boxes on a truck and while it was physically demanding, I daydreamed about computers while I was doing it and left mentally refreshed even after ten hour days and had the energy to work on my passions. But that doesn't pay like software does.

  • source
  • parent