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There's being smart enough to have read about a complicated pattern and implement it in a high visibility enterprise solution, then there's smart enough to know better.

Yeah, pretty stressful: "Should I fuck around on PatNet all day or download porn, then spend 5 minutes pretending I'm busy?"

I hate being on-call and getting 2am pages. :-(

To any "stressed out" programer:

Why haven't you farmed out your workload to someone in Chindia yet? If you do this could be your typical day:

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch

1:00 p.m. – Ebay time.

2:00 – ish p.m Facebook updates – LinkedIn

4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.

5:00 p.m. – Go home

Forward all 2am pages to Chindia - that's their middle of the day anyway.

Clearly some programmers on this forum have figured it out -how else would they have so much time to spend on PatNet?

If anyone questions your actions just tell them you've been promoted to management...

Well you could always be in middle mgmt and spend your time sorting through fake resumes and try and sort through temper tantrum throwing programmers with a God complex.

lostand confused says

Well you could always be in middle mgmt and spend your time sorting through fake resumes and try and sort through temper tantrum throwing programemrs with a God complex.

Then wise up and find a candidate who will in exchange for a job and reference write you a killer resume and email filters capable of dealing with those pesky programmers.

Then let the computer do your job while you watch cat videos all day.

New Renter says

Then let the computer do your job

My job is to be on the phone all day.

Once they can build a strong AI bullsh*t artistry app, then there won't be a need for anyone, anymore.

jojo says

Everyone wants software for their job that requires them to come into work, push one button, get paid, then go home for the day.

The idle rich don't even do that much - they have people to push the button.

Why do you hate success?

jojo says

Everyone wants software for their job that requires them to come into work, push one button, get paid, then go home for the day.

http://www.CFTTEGXKvCU

jojo says

but this is what they are getting at. I have streamlined and automated many
processes which allow companies to have less people.

But maintaining the automated processes, cretaing data for it, verifying it, updating it for new business processes-requires a team for iteself!!

jojo says

Everyone wants software for their job that requires them to come into work, push one button, get paid, then go home for the day.

Why can't I push the button from home while naked?

New Renter says

Why haven't you farmed out your workload to someone in Chindia yet? If you do this could be your typical day:

Because

1. I live to write software and moved to Silicon Valley because of that from Boulder, CO where ample good food and lie music are within city limits, houses near such amenities literally a million dollars less expensive than in the SF Bay Area, and good dry snow for alpine sports starts 45 minutes away by car not hours by plane.

2. I don't enjoy managing off-shore developers.

3. My cash compensation is just six figures. The real money comes when I write software an order of magnitude better for customers than competitors which would not happen if I outsourced without moving over seas to hire the team and manage them. Unfortunately it also depends on the executive staff, marketing, and sales organizations all doing their part.

jojo says

Everyone wants software for their job that requires them to come into work, push one button, get paid, then go home for the day.

drew_eckhardt says

New Renter says

Why haven't you farmed out your workload to someone in Chindia yet? If you do this could be your typical day:

Because 1. I live to write software and moved to Silicon Valley because of that from Boulder, CO where ample good food and lie music are within city limits, houses near such amenities literally a million dollars less expensive than in the SF Bay Area, and good dry snow for alpine sports starts 45 minutes away by car not hours by plane.

2. I don't enjoy managing off-shore developers.

3. My cash compensation is just six figures. The real money comes when I write software an order of magnitude better for customers than competitors which would not happen if I outsourced without moving over seas to hire the team and manage them. Unfortunately it also depends on the executive staff, marketing, and sales organizations all doing their part.

Well except for item #2 you could have the Chindian's do your crappy six figure day job while you make "real" money doing what you love.

Call it Crazy says

Are you currently writing that software now???

I'm working for two international companies, who has no concept of time. I work with the American teams throughout an Eastern US Time zone work day. Then about 9pm I start getting emails and calls from Europe, India and Geneva.

I'm always working.

Even when I decide to spend some time on a Saturday night jaming with a few friends, they find it hard to believe, when they leave at about 9:30 to 10, that I plan on jumping back on my computer, answering a few emails and then putting out fires and rush pushes until 3am.

Call it Crazy says

Well, that explains many of your posts....

If you are going to try to insult someone, at least be witty about it. That was a boring and predicable put down.

...another example of a witless insult

Call it Crazy says

Dan8267 says

jojo says

Good for you. It must be therapeutic to open yourself up like that.

Now if only all Republicans would do the same.

Yes, that is indeed an example of a witty put-down from the thread I'm Coming Out of The Closet...

It's relevant to the thread's subject matter, yet takes an unexpected twist. If you want to learn more about how humor works, try reading