Cool jobs include: - Fighter jet pilot - FBI special agent - Navy SEAL - Neurosurgeon - Race car driver Sadly most of these require talent/skill from a young age and/or US citizenship. So instead I'm stuck with you techie dorks shifting protos and writing docs.
TC?
You're having a mid life crisis.
grow some ballz and go do it don’t be all talk
SWE is a cool job
Job is a job. You can be burnt out there too. Grass is always greener on the other side, there are plenty of people who want your job because they think they would never be tired of it
I'd rather be burned out in a F-35 fighter jet than at a desk in front of a computer.
Sure, whatever. All the jobs you listed are high stress/danger, so I really don’t think so
Blocking Nit: bullets should not be hyphens because I said so. Now go waste more hours of your life.
Didn't you read my design doc last week? We are deprecating bullets to reduce non-white pixel space and improve rendering speed by 0.0000001% for 0.0003% of users.
Let's bring this discussion up in standup and drone on and on because oh my God the world will end without this.
I'll say one thing; I probably wouldn't choose to be laid off, but I feel SO much better, at least a few days in. The reality is we make a lot of money, more than most can dream of, and when you don't have the pressure of the job, it gives you a ton of freedom to do what you want. I'd like to get to the point where I can feel that on the job, but I'm just not there yet.
It’s funny that you just think these are “cool jobs” for talented people and ignore all the work that goes into becoming any of them.
Firefighters are sexy according to various polls, It takes a few months of training and you’ll be out there saving lives.
Did you eat the free food?