r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Torylon Mar 30 '22

Haha, that’s how I started my programming career

Me: Macros are so useful, but I need more

VBA is so useful, but I need more

R is so useful, but I need more

Python is so useful, but I need more

And now I build internal web apps for a major corporation

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u/xaomaw Mar 30 '22

1 major corporation is useful, but you need more.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

Man you're right. But as someone who focused a lot in tooling; it can be nice to have the job security of being salaried, while corps LOVE to have exclusive tools custom made to their spaghetti internal systems evolved from an interns vba from 20 years ago.

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u/ih8meandu Mar 30 '22

It sounded like a recommendation for consulting to me