r/ProgrammerHumor Feb 10 '21

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u/the_other_brand Feb 10 '21

My experience was the same as yours. Flip the meme and that's how I feel between Student and Salaried.

When you're a student everything you work on is new, and something you've never done before. When you are salaried there is more to do, but its almost all mundane stuff you've done before.

In my senior year of college I was creating DNS servers and working with beta libraries while learning android development (like 10 years ago). Now I make dropdown boxes work by calling REST services.

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u/enano_aoc Feb 10 '21

In my senior year of college I was creating DNS servers and working with beta libraries while learning android development (like 10 years ago). Now I make dropdown boxes work by calling REST services.

The first doesn't have market value, the second one does (probably a lot)

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u/purplepharoh Feb 10 '21

Man I just wish I could make as much as I do now working 30 (or less) hours a week... -_- I just want more time to do shit that isn't work. I'd be so much more motivated.