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 :

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

    Some of the people I know who quit the IT industry did so because they felt all of the effort they put in never seemed to achieve anything. Too many jobs at startups who exist only to be bought and shut down by bigger fish for some IP etc.

    For some work is not just about wages or challenges, it’s about building something useful and meaningful, whether figuratively or literally.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

      There is also a satisfaction in a task that has a clear goal and end point.

    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      02·
      2 months ago

      There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

      Nothing human is eternal. But you’re speaking in absolutes and I challenge that. Give me intellectual challenges, I couldn’t care less about making a nice chair or a sculpture.

      Too many jobs at startups

      That’s the problem. You can try elsewhere, maybe?