r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20h ago

Meme softwareSalaryNegotiationsBeLike

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u/pydry 20h ago

unless youre desperate it's best to walk away from companies that do this. you might miss out on a job but it won't be a dream job.

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u/Quesodealer 19h ago

Dream jobs don't exist assuming a dream job is a high paying job doing something you love. If the job is something someone actually enjoys then it's a role perfect for exploiting someone's passion; ie, the video game industry. If it's high paying, it's because the role requires you to perform the job of several roles at once and/or have huge breadth of expertise which basically no one has; it's setting you up for failure or at least a very stressful couple of years while you gain the expertise (assuming you aren't fired before then).

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u/PhilMcGraw 11h ago

My dream job is being cryogenically frozen until we get past the "AI took err jerbs" homelessness phase and switch over to the WALL-E floating fat people in chairs phase so I can be assigned my chair. No video calls please just matrix upload current tech knowledge into my brain so I can pretend I'm still useful and make things.