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The fuck? We're programmers. We have the easiest lives of the working class. I'm literally sitting here in my underwear, unshaven, drinking a beer, making stupid money for coding objectively pointless crap much like 99% of us. It's absurd. Lighten up.

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I would be happy too if I was a freelancer working from home. Try cutting your income in half and going every day to an office to answer to a manager dumber than you. See how much you like it then.

I hated it and I quit, this was two weeks ago and I'm actually sort of struggling for income lol. I have like two months to make this work. But simply having that option sit in the back of my head made it easy enough to go to work, because I knew that if it got bad enough I can just get up and leave.

So in one hour you went from making stupid money to struggling for income.

Once this contract runs out theres no guarantee of a next one ;)

I work from home too. But that doesn't mean we have the easiest job.

An old saying a coach of mine had "if it was easy, everyone would do it". So if it's easy, why isn't everyone doing it?

...also, what is stupid money? $200k+? anything less than that is just called regular money.

You work for liberty, like me. Others took the work visa to Microsoft land. It's a well monied but shitty place.

I work in MS land. Still pretty easy relatively speaking. I always feel slightly guilty when I think of my brothers who work in construction and hospitality respectively, for low-pay and long hours.

Sounds fulfilling.

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