• locuester@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Some people, me included, really love our work. It isn’t related to power (for me), just pure enjoyment.

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        1 year ago

        Software engineering. Currently in the defi industry, but historically a dozen of different industries.

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          Damn I dont know how you guys do it. I can’t even sit straight for one hour staring at a PC and you guys stretch it to 10-12 hours. All I can say is that any company to have guys like you is really lucky.

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              How… unrelatable.

              Don’t get me wrong, I find satisfaction in what I do. At a certain point, though, given the resources I’d like to work on my own projects.

              Maybe that is what these guys dream about with AI so I can’t knock them. Just seems too involved.

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                Part of it is what you said, “work on my own projects”. That’s what I feel I’m doing. While I don’t legally “own” the software product I’m building (usually), there is still a strong sense of ownership I feel when I’m building software. I want it to be perfect, something I am proud of. A masterpiece. And I spend embarrassingly large amounts of time perfecting and researching.