If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou… Wait, no, that's not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There's no way that other thing makes sense.

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 :

    • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      Not counting the “projects patterns” that would be invented because some manager thinks it’ll be cheaper and machines taking the fun part, leaving you to do the boring or frustrating part.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      In IT sometimes you open an old project and wonder who the fuck wrote this shit.

      As a contractor you tear down a wall and discover the house wasn’t built as you expected, and wonder who the fuck built it this way.

    • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      Nah I do biology as a hobby and also for work, it’s great. There are the usual trappings of work, but I’ve had jobs I’m not passionate about and it’s definitely worse lol. I feel like what you’re saying is a cope people say when they don’t follow their passions.

    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      22·
      2 年前

      I have another impression about romanticizing trades: there’s a deep anti-intellectualism and an exaltation of not having to think. For me that idea is pure hell.

      • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        51·
        2 年前

        You think people in trades don’t think at work? This is actually just classism or something idk. You really don’t think electricians, contractors, plumbers etc aren’t problem solving on the daily? We’re not talking about working on a factory line.