I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood.

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  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
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    There was a building site next to our office and I stood at the window and watched the workers. A colleague walked up next to me. We stood there in silence for a while.

    Me: “Sometimes I wonder if I should just fuck it all and become a gardener.”

    Him: “Me too.”

    Me: “I’m serious.”

    Him: “Me too.”

    We briefly looked at each other with expressionless faces. In silence we watched some more. Then we went to the next meeting.

    True story™.

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      I always thought about going to be a farmer. Then I watched some videos from farmers and realized they are also engineers.

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          Who is saying that?

          There’s too much virtue signaling here. No engineer thinks poorly of the trades. That’s the point of the conversation.

          I just made a joke about how burger flippers can be called engineers, and I have a PhD.

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              Again, who is saying that? I don’t find janitorial duty shameful neither do I find sanitation engineer shameful. That’s you

              I guess you’d also rather be called butcher or barber than surgeon?

              After all, rebranding implies you’re ashamed.

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      I mean, that’s basically the main character’s arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.

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      Can relate. With colleagues we have daydreamed about opening a bar, a bakery, a hostel on the beach, yet we’re all still here, pressing buttons to make the lights on the screen change.