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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
(alinpanaitiu.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399
Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :
To me it feels like people romanticising their hobbies/escape activities. If they started doing it as work soon enough they would have lots of pain points and stress. Sure you don't have CVEs or libraries to update but the deadline for that chair or cabinet you were commissioned is coming and you can't just get the damn thing right. At the same time you have another customer complaining that you need to check some other stuff you've made that isn't working right .. see where I'm going?
I know a lot of people in the trades and they have very similar or analogous pain points as me in software.
Doing it as a hobby though? It's amazing. I don't really need a car anymore but I've been learning how to fix mine and it has been great
Not counting the “projects patterns” that would be invented because some manager thinks it’ll be cheaper and machines taking the fun part, leaving you to do the boring or frustrating part.
In IT sometimes you open an old project and wonder who the fuck wrote this shit.
As a contractor you tear down a wall and discover the house wasn't built as you expected, and wonder who the fuck built it this way.
Nah I do biology as a hobby and also for work, it's great. There are the usual trappings of work, but I've had jobs I'm not passionate about and it's definitely worse lol. I feel like what you're saying is a cope people say when they don't follow their passions.
I have another impression about romanticizing trades: there's a deep anti-intellectualism and an exaltation of not having to think. For me that idea is pure hell.
You think people in trades don't think at work? This is actually just classism or something idk. You really don't think electricians, contractors, plumbers etc aren't problem solving on the daily? We're not talking about working on a factory line.
General problem solving, probably. Deep thinking? Nah.
And besides, I doubt most electricians need to apply Kirchhoff's Law on a daily basis.
Right because IT workers are philosophizing through setting up networks okay
Who said anything about networks?