Writing code is great. You can sit for hours at an end with a sore neck, coffee, an ashtray full of dogends (for smokers) and depending on the amount and quality of progress a feeling of despair or exhilaration.
Against the collective desire of the development community, I still, every now and then, do a bit of coding. It doesn’t happen all that frequently, but when it does… I enjoy it very much. I enjoy the thrill of the chase. The relentless pursuit of the binary state of done.
However, since I wrote my first line of code my career had a bit of everything and eventually landed in management. And that was it for me. Although I’m not particularly fond of all management work, I thoroughly enjoy dealing with people.
Smart, silly, hateful, passionate, lazy, dumb, lovable people.
When dealing with people you seldom have a state of done or even know what the state of done is. You can never consider all variables because variables become infinite. The human being is not only unpredictable per se but is also affected by a millon contributing environmental factors ranging from weather to a sports result. Nothing prepares you 100% for the task of managing people.
I find that fascinating.
That is what I love the most about my trade and generally about anything in the world. For the most part, I love people. I ocassionaly hate them. But I always love working with them.
It’s unpredictable, brillant, capricious, endearing people that makes it all worth while.
Shuje
PS: On my next post I will show you how to make a sound in a frequency that only dogs and Lady Gaga can hear.
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