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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6002282

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[–] psion1369 62 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I used to joke with my niece that my programming job was just me staring at screens and meetings all day. She didn't believe me until she got to shadow me one day and got super bored.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

It's not as easy as it sounds, sometimes the screens are all wrong!! https://xkcd.com/722/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] whotookkarl 3 points 8 months ago

Not op but guessing she had an idea from media like TV shows and movies that make technical jobs seem much more exciting for entertainment over realism. Crises are usually more Jerry accidentally deleted a directory and we need to recover some files and establish safe guard procedures to prevent it from happening again or this thing broke that nobody even knew existed so we gotta figure it out and less type fast enough to save the mainframe from l33t hackers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

But when your brain is fascinated by all that has to happen for those screens and meetings to happen, it can still be an interesting job.