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I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood.
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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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There was a building site next to our office and I stood at the window and watched the workers. A colleague walked up next to me. We stood there in silence for a while.
Me: "Sometimes I wonder if I should just fuck it all and become a gardener."
Him: "Me too."
Me: "I'm serious."
Him: "Me too."
We briefly looked at each other with expressionless faces. In silence we watched some more. Then we went to the next meeting.
True story™.
I always thought about going to be a farmer. Then I watched some videos from farmers and realized they are also engineers.
Yeah, it's easy to dismiss manual jobs as "dumb stuff for non educated people", but when we got off our high horses we realize we're bigots and that they deserve any and all forms of respect.
Who is saying that?
There's too much virtue signaling here. No engineer thinks poorly of the trades. That's the point of the conversation.
I just made a joke about how burger flippers can be called engineers, and I have a PhD.
Again, who is saying that? I don't find janitorial duty shameful neither do I find sanitation engineer shameful. That's you
I guess you'd also rather be called butcher or barber than surgeon?
After all, rebranding implies you're ashamed.
I mean, that's basically the main character's arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.
What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Can relate. With colleagues we have daydreamed about opening a bar, a bakery, a hostel on the beach, yet we're all still here, pressing buttons to make the lights on the screen change.