Don’t Let Programming Drain Your Life
Posted
January 4, 2008 
Comments(3)
Comments(3)
I came across this older article about in-house programmers on joel and found it quite amusing. It is based on a talk he made at Yale and here is a little bit for you to ponder -
“And there are two reasons this is so frightening: one, because it’s not a very fulfilling career if you’re a programmer, for a list of reasons which I’ll enumerate in a moment, but two, it’s frightening because this is what probably 80% of programming jobs are like, and if you’re not very, very careful when you graduate, you might find yourself working on in-house software, by accident, and let me tell you, it can drain the life out of you.”
Sounds like something where I used to work 
And where would that be then?
But he does speak the truth, it can be incredibly frustrating!
He certainly is right, I think thats the difference between me liking past jobs more than others (cough,cough) even when they appear the same on paper.
By the way Ian I do read your blog but cannot leave any comments because it still thinks that I am a terrorist or something
Congrats on the new addition to the Devlin clan
Weird, send me an email of what you’re trying to post so I can fix it!