cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399
Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :
One of my coworkers and I often discuss quitting our stressful-stupid IT jobs and going to work at Home Depot or Costco or even Arby’s.
Today I took my car in for routine service. A place I use all the time. Major chain.
The poor guy checking me in had to click past about 50 stupid pointless prompts on his workstation. He had serious muscle memory going on. The man was impressive, the software was not.
I can just imagine the asshole midlevel manager who made some beleaguered coder write all that pointless popup shit, to make sure “they don’t forget to upsell the customer” and god knows what other inane nonsense .
It’s embarassing how bad software is in 2024. Especially point of sale systems and medical records.
+1 to Point Of Sale systems - POS as the acronym is. Every single one of them.
Most people aren’t actually that good at their jobs, only good enough.
Most people aren’t actually that good at their jobs, only good enough
Most jobs don’t come with good pay.
They get what they pay for.
Check out the current Luddite movement, this is their main complaint
If I could keep my salary I’d find another line of work. Something outside maybe? Whatever lets my brain go home at night.
Working outside sounds great when you’re working indoor all the time. And at first it will be refreshing.
However after a few years (months?) of working outside, in the cold, the rain, the heat, you’ll envy the office workers and their perfect temperature open space with a nearby coffee corner.
It’s not gonna be hard labor ;) there has to be a job where I go around to parks and manage stuff. Tree supervisor? Bush Boss?
It doesn’t pay well, but “park ranger” is exactly that.
Heard over at reddit that walking dogs should be pretty viable cash.
I hear they also tip you in avocados
Fuck. That’s exactly it.
I feel this. At my last job, there were many meetings I didn’t think were useful in addition of software change just for the sake of change. Package.json errors everywhere. Small issues with docker to fix all day.
Left IT for flying. Figured it’d be a great change to my indoor-centric lifestyle.
My whole life I’ve seen people that are or became masters of their craft and I’ve always admired them. I’m in my 30s. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be a master of anything but I was far closer in IT than I am as a pilot lol
Anything with your hands, really. I do cross stitch and used to build scale models
Same energy: this legendary comment in an issue on the Docker github repo (by the issue OP, no less)
https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477
Check this out https://github.com/dylanaraps
Huh, I’m using technology as an escape from woodworking. Lack of space/tools and a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned (last thing I tried was whittling hoping to do it in my room anytime and not have dust as an issue, cheap folding knife probably didn’t help)
Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that. Well that and I haven’t done anything noteworthy with technology or woodworking.
For a period i worked in assisted living tech, testing prototypes together with staff and patients in nursing homes. That was a very rewarding type of IT/tech job with a short feedback loop that you’re actually helping a real person.
