> The audience for this article is engineering graduates starting a career, not artists searching for meaning.
Totally agree, I understand how it could sound irrelevant or pretentious. There are a couple of reasons why I wrote this comment, and I assure you it’s all in good spirit:
First, some young people who love programming don’t want to play the career came, and there is space for them as well. I read the article as “you must play to get anywhere” (my interpretation). You can do your thing, either alone or at a company, and simply not care.
Secondly, I know many who have more money than they could dream of earlier in their lives, but they’ve readjusted and moved the goalpost, and keep grinding seemingly because of peer pressure and habit alone. Some of them are miserable for no reason.
Third, working in order to play another game that you really like (family, hobbies, travel) is perfectly fine. Many people in my generation think that you must play all games at once, and they get exhausted. But no need – not giving a shit is sometimes the highest virtue.
Totally agree, I understand how it could sound irrelevant or pretentious. There are a couple of reasons why I wrote this comment, and I assure you it’s all in good spirit:
First, some young people who love programming don’t want to play the career came, and there is space for them as well. I read the article as “you must play to get anywhere” (my interpretation). You can do your thing, either alone or at a company, and simply not care.
Secondly, I know many who have more money than they could dream of earlier in their lives, but they’ve readjusted and moved the goalpost, and keep grinding seemingly because of peer pressure and habit alone. Some of them are miserable for no reason.
Third, working in order to play another game that you really like (family, hobbies, travel) is perfectly fine. Many people in my generation think that you must play all games at once, and they get exhausted. But no need – not giving a shit is sometimes the highest virtue.