alt Hacker NewsI also agree that boring is good, but in our current society you won't get a job for being boring, and when you get a job, it's is guaranteed you are not being paid to solve problems.
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kmarc • today at 6:15 AM
Some early retirees who started learning Cobol just 8 years ago would very much disagree with you :-)
com2kid • today at 12:51 AM
> but in our current society you won't get a job for being boring,
One can argue that every other field of engineering outside of Software Engineering, specializes in making complex things into boring things.
We are the unique snowflakes that take business use cases and build castle in the clouds that may or may not actually solve the business problem at hand.
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Tagbert • today at 12:16 AM
One of my main job functions is to watch out for and solve problems.
> and when you get a job, it's is guaranteed you are not being paid to solve problems
That's just your experience, based on your geolocation and chain of events.