Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/09/kiss-your-boring-job-goodbye.html
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Are they handing out jobs at the bus stop?
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Another quick fix to the permanent problem of not enough jobs - booyah!
Implying that programming as a career path can’t be just as dull and tedious as whatever you’re doing right now…
(He says, posting to BBS from his job in a programming department.)
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Learn how to program out somebody else’s boring job so that a computer can do it instead.
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And for those of us who would rather gnaw our own arm off over coding for a day job?
Seriously I sometimes look at the guys collecting the garbage and wonder how well that pays…
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You have a future career writing ad copy for the boingboing store! What do you know about vapes, giant battery packs, and VPNs? Oh, and cables, gotta remember the cables.
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NOOOOOO! @popobawa4u is THE born copywriter for the BB Store
I am very disappointed that popo’s great work is not appreciated by our benevolent overlords
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Shush. We are Samurai. The Keyboard Cowboys.
(actual image of how cool and exciting programmers look at work. this could be you!)
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It would be pure “stunt casting”! It would be an interesting exercise, but mostly because I loathe persuasion and seduction. Is there value in my re-inventing ad copy? I think so, but I can understand if others don’t.
Oh, I don’t know. I think they appreciate my work for what it is. Some people like awkward writing of weird opinions which vacillates wildly between meandering and terse, earnest and pisstake at every phrase. I know that I do!
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A good trick is to do some super boring dead end pink collar shit for the first twenty years or so; then the other stuff starts to look pretty good 
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17 years of the care and feeding of windows servers… it pays the mortgage anyway.
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Hi kids! I spend my day pouring through hundreds of lines of text looking for a missing semi-colon. Doesn’t that sound like fun?
(Actually I do enjoy programming and development, but I certainly understand that this is not a joy for everyone. I don’t like project management tasks, but I’m sure glad we have people that do, and I’m happy to work with them so I can get back to looking for that missing semi-colon.)
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Looking at the size of that cable it must be one serious set of head phones. Coders are deaf right?
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It took a summer internship to do it for me. I am sure there are programmers out there that would run screaming from some of the crazy why is the server crashing hell I have happily dealt with so it all works out.
I think the one language/programming class I enjoyed the most was mainframe assembler code. It was pretty cool stuff having to tell the registers to directly load/unload data before doing operations.
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Monster Cable.
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Kiss your boring job goodbye—you’re about to learn how to program
Ahahahahahahaha! <gasp>
[grinning, wipes away tear]
“That’s…”
[Eyes move back and forth between exception text and keyboard]
[Weeping]
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I don’t know … @popobawa4u might have some serious competition from relative newbie @Robert_Marsanyi.
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[why not both gif]
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