On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ozan Onay <ozan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 13, 10:36 pm, silky <michaelsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *shrug* > > > > true of almost any field > > No, actually, it isn't. > > Some people crave all of those things, and struggle to find them in > every job that they do. They go into law and are told they're not > allowed to make things. They go into management consulting and find > out that the 'puzzles' that drew them there have ostensibly been > solved and so all that's left is to sell the solution. They go into > finance and stop learning. > > I didn't spend a tremendously long amount of time working in the legal > industry, but I did experience a variety of roles, and can say that I > never enjoyed any of those pleasures for more than perhaps 3 billable > units (that's 18 minutes) in a single week. And it wasn't just that I > was too junior - all through the pay scale lawyers would be doing > mundane, repetitive, under-stimulating tasks for 80% of their work > day, and having boozy lunches for the rest. Many of my friends who > still work in law complain that they want to build things, to build > meaningful things, to solve problems, to learn... but their work > doesn't permit it. I felt this too, which is why I'm a law graduate > who writes algorithms and solves maths problems for a startup. > > Not every minute of your day as a programmer is going to be fantastic, > but being able to build cool things with powerful tools to solve > interesting problems is something that people in other positions > absolutely crave. You shouldn't take it for granted.
Programming isn't all I do and I find fun in every business I've been involved in: financing, accounting, writing, investment, design, thinking, inventing, building, drawing, talking, running, maths, physics, law. No-one can tell you what you find fun. So it's true people do things they don't enjoy, but that's just a shame, not a fact of life. Fun is fun. Nothing more than that. -- noon silky http://www.boxofgoodfeelings.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
