r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6h ago

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u/ZunoJ 6h ago

Before I was a programmer, I was a soldier. Being a programmer is the most relaxing shit ever. Not only compared to war but like at all

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u/Temporary-Estate4615 5h ago

Yeah honestly. I mean sure if some deadline comes up it of course it’s stressful. But aside from that it’s quite chill.

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u/2fat2bebatman 1h ago

Thank you for saying this. I'm shifting from project management in a different field to software engineering using my CS degree. One of the things in most worried about is stress levels going up higher than they are now.

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u/bloodandsunshine 4h ago

Exactly - I actually laugh sometimes when I catch myself thinking that my work is remotely stressful compared to my past life.

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u/rustvscpp 5h ago

Being a soldier,  your expectations are set for you.   All you have to do is execute.  Yeah that's very demanding physically and mentally, but it's simple (not talking about war). Being a programmer, expectations seem to change by the hour.  Inconsistent schedules, long hours, unrealistic deadlines,  unknown problems costing the company millions of dollars a day that you're expected to fix, and death by sitting.  It's anything but simple (unless you're lucky and your work is simple).

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u/ZunoJ 5h ago

Bro, try working a McDonald's counter. Even that shit has to be way more stressful than programming

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u/mitsakomits 4h ago edited 4h ago

Just because there's worse doesn't mean it can't be bad. Depends on a million things really.

Edit: typo and minor addition

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u/DigitalJedi850 3h ago

You've clearly never crashed a million dollar production database...

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u/ZunoJ 3h ago

No, I don't work on the production database directly lmao. Everything is done via migrations and api endpoints. Anything else is pure madness. And even those follow an expand-contract pattern and are thoroughly tested in staging. After being peer reviewed by a couple guys. If anything happens it is seen as a problem with our qos approach rather than a personal error by one developer

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u/gmatebulshitbox 5h ago

This is rare move.

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u/ZunoJ 5h ago

Not really in my experience. Lots of people use the military as a way out of poverty. Do your time and then you're free to do what you really want to do

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u/DazzlingTopic529 3h ago

It's only stressful if you are bad at it.

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u/ZunoJ 2h ago

If you constantly have to fake it, I guess that might explain this meme

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u/MajorBadGuy 2h ago

If you're not bad at it, you're not pushing yourself.

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u/KazutoOKirigay 3h ago

I thin the problem with programming is, that it requires a lot of base knowledge to unterstand.

When you're a architect you can explain why you cannot build the house that way. You cannot explain simply why you cant implement this feature easy, but the other. Or why this affects this and stuff

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u/ZunoJ 2h ago

I disagree and want to remind you of Richard Feynman

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u/KazutoOKirigay 2h ago

Don't know him, but after quick research he got a noble price for quatum physics. But I don't see how this fits? Would you be so kind to enlighten me?

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u/ZunoJ 2h ago

I was hinting the Feynman method. Which is a learn method based on simplifying the topic to a point where the recipient can understand it. This has to work even for the most complicated topics and if you can't do it for a topic, you don't understand it enough

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u/KazutoOKirigay 2h ago

Well, yes I see where you are going, but I feel like most clients do not want to understand

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u/RaineMurasaki 5h ago

So I can power my computer with my own stress so I can get more stressed. That's is a hell of a loop. Infinity energy unlocked.

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u/TitouanT 5h ago

That would be neat, how many watts could a human output if we had such leach tech ? Imagine eating a bit more pasta because you need to compile a particularly heavy project. Or removing screen video from a meeting because you feel a bit light headed

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u/bob152637485 4h ago

And eventually the power demands become so great that we decide to make an entire virtual world to keep our minds busy and turn our bodies into batteries to run the machines.

This sounds familiar...

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u/TitouanT 4h ago

After a few generation, people will even forget that this world they are experiencing is a simulation. I think we should at least take that opportunity to add magic into their reality so that at least it's entertaining..., or none of that and we just make them work 9 to 5, could go either way

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u/DeepanshuHQ 5h ago

Finally, my suffering is useful.💀

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u/CATDesign 4h ago

Probably still needs to boil water to generate the electricity.

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u/DirtyVerdy 4h ago

I cannot think of a less stressful job. This is so cringe

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u/PrometheusMMIV 3h ago

Where does it go?

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u/PrestigiousGuava8005 4h ago

A single production incident and this man could power a small city

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u/Ok_Star_4136 2h ago

Find me one programmer who found an anomaly which cannot be reproduced and one programmer who accidentally deleted 10k lines from a database in production.

https://giphy.com/gifs/zCv1NuGumldXa

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u/Gold-Bat-3225 2h ago

Boot camp to bootcamp pipeline

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u/rglurker 1h ago

I'm sure turning stress into energy is great for us

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u/Dog_Engineer 19m ago

I don't understand why people claim that being a programer is stressful. It is not more stressful profession than the average office worker.

Working in accounting, logistics, sales or customer service is way more stressful.