Programmer passion considered harmful
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If I fixated on a woman in a manner resembling the devotion American corporations demand of workers, I would rightly be condemned as a crazy person and subjected to a restraining order.
"Can't live without passion"
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You're not a good programmer if you don't have 3-4 restraining order against you? Everyone does right?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others. It's the same when you're stupid.
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What a BS article! To sum it up:
OP:
I choose the wrong profession in life and to make myself feel better I will try to categorize anybody who actually does enjoy their job as some sort of weirdo stalker
Jackass!
I knew people would love it ;)
TTFN - Kent
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Very interesting that the majority is denying 1/3 of their life doing something they deem not important. Instead of introspection, they blame it to their boss, coworker, society. As if others are responsible to make their 8H worthwhile to their own life. If you are thinking like that, change your job, or you will become an hollow body standing without any soul.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
the devotion American corporations demand of workers
That's the major flaw of his argument; it's just not true by any measure. Douchebaggery supreme.
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He's mistaking passion for slave labor. He was enslaved by the startup culture (which, admittedly, throws around the word "passion" as a double-secret code word for "slave"), which values 12 hour work days. You can have intense passion for your programming career and still not be enslaved by your employer. I spend ~12 hours a day programming, but only 8 of them are for my employer. The other ~4 are for me. My hobbies, like game dev or learning a new language (which will never be used at my current job). He has a valid point about the startup culture 12 hour work days. But that has nothing to do with programmer passion.
