• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You shouldn’t strive to profit off doing things you enjoy

    Sounds like a win-win to me

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      1 year ago

      Only if you’re lucky. I loved programming. Used to do it all the time. Got a job doing it, and it’s just exhausting now. So much gets caught up in the process: money to survive, meeting other people’s deadlines and goals, etc. It kills the enjoyment.

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          1 year ago

          Of course, you’d rather have food or shelter. And why would you not have food and shelter? Oh, because society deems that if you don’t work, you don’t live.

          And don’t knock masturbating. It’s a lot of fun. So is programming with no real goal. Sometimes you enjoy the journey, not the destination.