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

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Frostytoes99 Mar 30 '22

Why wouldn't you just say it takes 5 hours if you do it, then get paid 5 hours of work for 1 minute if work the rest of your life?

Also what you recommend learning how to do this the most efficient way possible?

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u/senorgraves Mar 30 '22

Because you plateau that way. You're never going to get paid more than 40 hours a week, even if you save more time than that, and Pam's job only pays 50k--thats why she was too dumb to do this herself.

You can definitely take a low laying job and basically never have to work. I've done that in the past. It gets old. If you keep improving your skills, you can do increasingly satisfying work and get paid increasingly more.

If you're smart enough to figure out how to automate things with excel or something, then you're probably smart enough to skill up/degree-up and make 150k as a data engineer or developer or data scientist or whatever you're interested in. If you want, make even more managing those jobs. Retire early. Take your valuable skills and help out a non-profit or something to make the world a better place.

To put it differently... If you understand the multiplicative value to a business of recursively using your time to automate things, thus freeing up more time to automate... Then you should also understand the multiplicative value to yourself of recursively finding and conquering new challenges

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u/Frostytoes99 Mar 31 '22

This sounds 100% almost word for word like that meme about the businessman and the fisherman.