From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
   >   
   >>> In my case, it is because I am not working as a programmer, so I have   
   >>> not requirements to be productive or to be able to generate any income   
   >>> of programming.   
   >>   
   >> I am not programming for profit any longer.  Thank God.  I program for   
   >> beauty now.  This change has been the hardest thing I had to do and it's   
   >> been so worth it.   
   >   
   > Why? How was it to work as a programmer and what was it that you   
   > didn't like about it?   
      
   I never worked on obviously interesting systems.  (There was only one   
   exceptional project that I was hired to do and I felt I was doing the   
   type of programming that I would call cool programming.  This was one of   
   the last commercial projects I worked on.  By then, I was already an   
   independent contractor, not an employee, so this project does not even   
   count as something I did while an employee in a company.)  Over the   
   years, I felt I was just contributing to the profit of the company owner   
   and nothing else---not even my satisfaction was being rewarded, except   
   for the bill-paying type of satisfaction (if you would).   
      
   Unfortunately, to pay bills I had to spend more than I wanted of my life   
   as a company employee.  I had to explicitly design an operation to do a   
   career change and that was really worth it.   
      
   > When I graduated from university, I wanted to become a programmer, but   
   > at that time, only 10+ years of experience was wanted on the job   
   > market, so life decided that I should work in infrastructure/system   
   > administration instead.   
      
   I always thought of system administration as a programming job.  In   
   fact, a fun one.  Initially I wanted to be a UNIX system administrator.   
   But my professional life began in a web world when most jobs I could get   
   were all web related.  Deep web projects always involve UNIX   
   programming, but I was never really hired for deep projects.  As a   
   result, I kept doing web programming to pay bills.  So I had to study   
   and invent projects in order to study the other sides of computer   
   science so I would not spend my life with technology and culture I did   
   not even appreciate.  That actually paid off.  For the first time in my   
   life, I can say I really like my job.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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