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There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

Some of the people I know who quit the IT industry did so because they felt all of the effort they put in never seemed to achieve anything. Too many jobs at startups who exist only to be bought and shut down by bigger fish for some IP etc.

For some work is not just about wages or challenges, it’s about building something useful and meaningful, whether figuratively or literally.

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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

There is also a satisfaction in a task that has a clear goal and end point.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

That’s where I would recommend one thing to other software people as a software person myself: make your own tools.

I started writing a little notepad type thing just so I could have a cross platform tool with a set bunch of capabilities no matter what OS I’m on.

It’s very rewarding to just want something, make it, and use it.

It can be simple, it can be complicated… It can work like everything else does or only in a way that works for you.

It’s very freeing to work on something where you don’t have to ask fifteen people what the requirements are and then have them change under you. If your tool is useful and you use it you don’t even need testing overhead either.

I highly recommend it. Build your own tools when you find the existing ones to be frustrating.

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richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

Nothing human is eternal. But you’re speaking in absolutes and I challenge that. Give me intellectual challenges, I couldn’t care less about making a nice chair or a sculpture.

Too many jobs at startups

That’s the problem. You can try elsewhere, maybe?

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- whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re probably an asshole to everyone around you if you think the only intellectual jobs are ones that are done sitting at a desk.
  
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  - richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Please enlighten me about the deep thinking challenges involved in fabricating a chair. I’ll wait.
    
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    whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yo someone else already wrote up examples. But you could look at any advanced woodworking video for custom furniture and you’ll see.
    
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    aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’d be like this guy if you made furniture: youtu.be/dTcvmmOkqJI
    
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- zazo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you don’t think building chairs or sculptures requires solving “intellectual” challenges you’ve never tried building a completely wooden multi-axial interlocking joint furniture…
  
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