• SethranKada@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Programming. People treat it like a career, but fact is that unless your really good at it, your not going to make any money from it. I’ve found programming to be far more like art than work anyway.

    • Oliver@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      That’s why I switched sides. From programming myself to developing functions and writing requirements which someone else can implement into code. :)

      I could do some programming (did embedded C), but surely I wasn’t the very best in it. So now I’m the guy who defines what a small (but essential) part of SW has to do which will run in hopefully a few million cars in a couple of years. :) Much more fun (and money).

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        1 year ago

        What is the definition of a job? I guess if someone said musician, that would be a career instead? Is a self employed contractor a job or is every client a job? Does an actor have one job or many?

        I considered a revenue stream to be a job but I’m not sure now.

        • TheLemming@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I guess the definition of job is vocation/occupation that generates your main financial income

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            1 year ago

            Main financial income

            So if I have 3 positions of employment, only the part time gig that makes me 60% of my income is my job, but not the full time one, or the part time one that makes me a bit of money on the side?