I know the leftist in me is supposed to have sympathy for these people and get them to unionize. But only after I stop laughing and enjoying this moment. For years these fucks told the rest of us to “learn to code” and pretended like studying anything else at uni was a fucking waste of time.

GUESS WHAT FUCKERS. SO WAS CODING. Looks like we’ll be baristas together, only I’ll have three years of experience!!!

  • dudes_eating_beans [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    I learned to code and I honestly kinda hate it. Started having an existential crisis in my 30s, learned enough to get me hired, do the same shit every day, I’m kinda going nuts. I miss doing manual labor honestly.

    Idk how long I’ll stay in this industry. I guess until I get fired for being bad at my job. Maybe I’ll go back to school and get an English degree and just teach overseas or something

    • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      The thing about mental labor (or worse, simultaneous mental and physical labor) versus physical labor that really sucks is… You don’t have time for your own thoughts. Can’t listen to a podcast. You can’t even listen to music with lyrics. You’re stuck thinking only about some goddamn bullshit for 8 hours a day every day.

      Some kinds of mental labor use different parts of the brain and that doesn’t apply as much… But anything heavily word-based takes up your full attention