I fucking hate my job. I wish I was a software engineer
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Anonymous2015-11-12 3:36
I'm a mechanical engineer. I fucking hate it. Because the things you make are visible, people are nit picky about the most stupid shit. The work is hard, your bosses are tools, and your coworkers are idiots.
Should I bother trying to switch over without a degree? I did do a little bit of firmware programming 3 years ago when the EE I was working with was retarded. pls help
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Anonymous2015-11-12 4:11
All those sophisticated theological "infinity" things -- omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnivorous -- will mess you up. Trust me that anthropomorphic is far better, in practice. Christ suggested thinking of God as "Abba" which is Aramaic for "Daddy" and said the childlike had an advantage. Matthew,11:25 Pray out-loud because God doesn't want the hastle of reading your brain. The best way to stop people from testing God is to suggest He can't do everything.
The work is hard, your bosses are tools, and your coworkers are idiots.
Sure sounds like firmware programming to me...
You're probably better off banking off your math background, picking up a scripting language or two, and pursuing a job as a programmer analyst. People who can both do math and program a machine to do it effectively are valuable in multiple areas. Firmware weenies are basically useless outside the semiconductor and electronics industries, and neither of those is really growing these days (not in the developed world, anyway).
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Anonymous2015-11-12 11:57
All bosses are tools. If you aren't an ardent socialist active in trade unionism yet, then you have no right to complain.
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Anonymous2015-11-12 13:37
Bikeshedding is common in all tech fields, you're better off scrubbing toilets if that bothers you.
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen
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suigin2015-11-15 2:19
>>4 Why do the majority of today's socialists seemingly support mass migration and removal of national borders, when these very things undermine the efficacy of unions, importing hordes of cheap workers and scalps who will undercut the unionists pay?
I'm sure some hardline trade unionist types have come to realize the contradictions, that something is off in the "official" narratives.
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suigin2015-11-15 2:50
>>1 I've been thinking about switching fields as well, been overworked lately, same problems as you. I'm in software.
Don't switch careers or take a different job because you want to take it easy. If you're going to switch, do so because you want to go where the action is. You can do it, M.Eng-san!
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Anonymous2015-11-15 8:25
I switched fields long ago and have since become an accomplished neet.
"The honorable end is one thing that cannot be taken from a man."
Spoken like a true advocate of the sociopathic military industrial complex that pervades modern "conservatism". How about that fucen soldier went and helped some people escape the city instead of standing there and dying uselessly, like literally any military guard would do in modern day, as opposed to somberly waiting for the lava to come over like a blanket of silence to wipe away any earthly concerns, let alone duty to fellow countrymen 8/10 furiously responded
>>13 In order to acquire a new path in life, first become worthy of that path.
>>14 Things were different back then. His punishment for abandoning his post without being relieved would have also been death. Faced with oblivion, he chose the honorable death rather than the cowardly.
I imagine it won't be long before capital punishment will once again be the rule of the day for men of arms, even in what will remain of the West. I give it a century.
>>18 Stop taking stupid hacker news submissions to heart, you goit.
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Anonymous2015-11-18 9:25
>>19-21 Butthurt code monkey plebs that believe they're engineers spotted.
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Anonymous2015-11-18 10:02
>>18 It's quite possible to apply various techniques of physical engineering to the art of system design and computer programming. This systematic approach and application of engineering techniques is known as software engineering.
Some people think it is superhuman and impossible. Wolfram is angry he's not getting attention. I'm in the same league as Wolfram and Dennis Richie and the other guy. I made a compiler, editor, graphic library, document format and a dialect of C and a kernel.
>>34 In his defense, Dennis Ritchie was also working with pretty limited hardware. People forget that C and Unix were originally targeted to a system with a single processor, uniform memory space with less than 2 MB of RAM, minimal memory protection, and no MMU (yes, really - paging was added later, and the BSD people would have to to remove it again 10 years later because their target hardware also didn't have a working one). By that standard, a garden variety i386 box from the mid to late eighties is almost luxurious.
I remember this every time some so called embedded programmer tells me they don't have hardware powerful enough to run a real OS on it.
>>35,36 Of course, Ritchie didn't have the benefit of several decades of pedagogical advances in OS design and implementation. Time-sharing systems were a research topic when Unix was created; today, you can take your pick of books that were written to describe what the team at AT&T did and why. Ritchie couldn't read those books, because he was creating the thing they would write about.