Life for a techie does not move beyond that. Whatever great software you develop, you always play around those things or variants of them. Sending, receiving, wrapping, unwrapping, encoding, decoding, parsing, generating, displaying, entering.. huh... anything else ? Hope all typical actions of a software are covered. We junk ( I love to call it joonk ) s slash w space E R dots do no great things, but paid handsomely. Sometimes I wonder, how come my company pays me for this junk piece of code I am writing.
When I first touched Computer, I thought this and only this should be my career. This is such a great job. Programming a rotating flower in BASIC gave me the joy I never had since then. And the Rest is history ( of course for me, my friends and closed ones ).
All my interest died when things became too much monotonus, doing the same things again and again. what keep on changing are specs, requirements, platforms, toos, languages, bosses, companies, teams, colleagues but inside I will be still playing with strings and bytes making fool of myself.
It's a curse that I am carrying being a techie..
~Swarup
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It only human. First you cry to have what you don't have. And then cry even more for what you have.
Have you thought about people who do tougher jobs than you ? Can you go to the border and guard the country 30 below freeze ? Can you go thousands feet below earth and do a mining job for a meagre money ? Can you climb a sky scrapper to change one of its broken window ? No. And you thought you have a bad job. huh ?
Agree, sometimes one's job becomes monotonous, but thats with every job. Ask Shahrukh, Bush, Schumaker or whoever you feel has an exciting job, and they will tell you even their jobs suck sometimes.
Go out. Hum a song. Have a smoke. Tell a joke. Try a verse. Neve mind it rhymes. And you will feel the difference. And then back to job.
Everybody has a job to do. Try appreciate it, not just take it for granted. Don't be a hypocrite. It definitely desreves better than that !
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