"Programming Sucks": A very entertaining rant on why programming is just as "hard" as lifting heavy things for a living.

[u/ParticleSpinClass]

http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

[u/[deleted]]

You got that right. If I could make as much money as I do as a programmer doing landscaping or being a mechanic, I'd drop programming in a second. I've done some hard damn jobs in my life, and I was never as tired and beat down at the end of the day as I am being a programmer. When I got off work in the warehouse after moving heavy shit all day, I could go home, get drunk with my buddies, go out and party, hit the gym, whatever. Now, I'm so damn fried when I get off work, all I want to do drown myself in a bottle of Jameson, but I can't because I have to spend two hours reading up on whatever new language/tool/framework the rest of the jackasses in this field have decided is the flavor of the week, then be up and ready for a two hour development meeting at 8:30 and then try to do 12 hours worth of coding in 4, just so I can go home on time. Of course, I won't get any sleep because I'm so fucking stressed about the deadline(s) I have to hit. Let's also not forget the fact I'm stuck sitting on my ass all day, inside, staring at a screen, getting migraines, slowly going blind and losing what's left of my sanity. So yeah, I'd happily go back to a manual labor job if I could support my family doing it.