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All of these models assume the following two things: 1. nobody likes their job 2. nobody thinks their work has any value besides what they are paid In swe pl
by yeeyeeyee 4y ago
All of these models assume the following two things:
1. nobody likes their job
2. nobody thinks their work has any value besides what they are paid
In swe plenty of people like their job, everybody's paid like 200k now, and unless you're working on crud internal tools you get to work on something relatively important.
But yeah if you have a shit job then you can browse HN at work and philosophize about sociopaths and losers.
- gene_takavic 4y ago#1 is not assumed. Clueless like their jobs because they believe their roles (usually in middle management) are more important and respected than they actually are. And, sure, SWE is full of Clueless (you don’t have to be a manager to be clueless) who think they’re going to be millionaire CEOs inside five years because they were promised “meritocracy”. I do agree that those models are specific (and therefore limited) to the private-sector corporation, and don’t really hold in mission-focused organizations where there is an actual reason for it to exist. Thing is, most of the highest-paid tech jobs are in pointless work done solely for rich people, with zero or negative net social value, so that’s where most HN posters are going to end up.
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- yeeyeeyee 4y ago>most of the highest-paid tech jobs are in pointless work done solely for rich people Sorry what companies/jobs are you talking about specifically?