[스크랩] What is the saddest part of being a programmer?

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What is the saddest part of being a programmer?

I don’t know about the saddest, but here is list of frustrations that I have experienced over the years:

You just wrote the most elegant, ingenious piece of code and you can’t share your accomplishment it with your wife, kid, parents, or friends. It’s meaningless to most people outside of your profession

Same goes for your biggest struggles, failures, hilarious Dilbert moments, etc.

Your managers are usually not technical and only have a vague idea of what you do. Your best work is indistinguishable from a hack. Most of them don’t care how it’s done, as long as it’s done on time

While you may be respected and treated nicely, at the end of the day, you are simply a resource, an asset, a workhorse. Your boss will decide what you do, how you do it, and how your time is allocated without asking how you feel about it. I realize this is not unique to programming, but it is a general grievance with the corporate world

You can be the most intelligent, articulate, person in the world, but if your senior management wants to know who on the team deserves a promotion or “needs improvement”, they will simply consult with your immediate manager. He may be the most incompetent, useless person there, but as far as they are concerned, he is the only one they need to consult and you should stay out of it while “adults” are talking and deciding your fate

Don’t get me wrong, as a programmer, you are still better off than most working stiffs in the corporate world, but it’s not all roses and unicorns. You may be well compensated and have a lot of job opportunities, but it doesn’t make it any less painful. You still have to deal with this crap. Money is just a deodorant.

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