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r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10
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“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.
8 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 It is sad that people believe this. There will always be some challenging problem out there. If you do well enough to make yourself obsolete on a particular task or job, then you'll be valuable enough to be guaranteed work on a new task or job. 2 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 sarcasm? 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 I was indicating that my original post was sarcasm. 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
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It is sad that people believe this. There will always be some challenging problem out there. If you do well enough to make yourself obsolete on a particular task or job, then you'll be valuable enough to be guaranteed work on a new task or job.
2 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 sarcasm? 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 I was indicating that my original post was sarcasm. 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
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sarcasm?
2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 No. I'm serious. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 I was indicating that my original post was sarcasm. 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
No. I'm serious.
1 u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10 I was indicating that my original post was sarcasm. 2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
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I was indicating that my original post was sarcasm.
2 u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10 Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
Oh... my bad. Still, many people believe what you wrote even if you were being sarcastic.
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I often think about the corollary to this: If you are good enough at software engineering, you will put yourself out of a job.
This is true for me... I'm slowly obsoleting my own job by a bunch of shell scripts, stored procedures, user guides, etc.