r/ProgrammerHumor • u/aloomatarkisabji • 2h ago

whyIsItSoTrue Meme

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u/CicadaGames 2h ago

If you tried to make money on your hobby project you'd probably end up feeling how you feel on the left about it.

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u/veselin465 1h ago

you would probably feel worse than left, because right will be gone

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u/Cerrax3 2h ago

One is a choice driven by an internal fulfillment, the other is simply a way to get money. Seems pretty obvious.

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u/Ilsunnysideup5 1h ago

Making a porn game vs programming ai.

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u/nir109 53m ago

Wich is wich

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u/belabacsijolvan 1h ago

$200 ... i wish

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u/precinct209 45m ago

Prompt engineering isn't programming.

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u/IndigoFenix 1h ago

Because the success of your work is unrelated to how much you will get out of it. Your goal is not to help your company succeed, because you're not going to be rewarded for it either way. Your goal is to simply not get fired. So there's no reason to be genuinely concerned about the outcome of your work, only what your supervisor thinks of it.

When you're working for yourself, there is at least the potential that you might be rewarded for it someday.

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u/Spork_the_dork 47m ago

For me it really is just more that when I'm working on a hobby project it's because I happen to feel like working on it. But work you have to do every weekday regardless of if you're in the mood for it that day or not. You can't just be like "nah I don't feel like this today" and skip it.

This is why I believe that no matter how much you like doing something, if you do it for work you'll go from the right picture to the left picture eventually. Unless you actually genuinely like to do it all day every day, of course.

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u/mich160 2h ago

People aren’t interested in learning other peoples’ states of mind. The more we stay in our domain the happier we are.

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u/revolution-imminent 2h ago

Yes. anyways

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u/pragmatick 1h ago

That even applies to projects for work I'm not asked to do like tools that make my other work easier or more fun.

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u/Ugo_Flickerman 1h ago

Giuse', sei tu?

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u/Looz-Ashae 2h ago

Because you chose a boring company with a boring field. Your C.O.

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u/StateCareful2305 28m ago

It is called alienation, you should read some Marx about it.

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u/randomdude_reddit 56m ago

Relatable af

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u/Corporate-Shill406 53m ago

I just (two hours ago) spent $400 on v2 of a project that has earned me under $100 since the first version was published.

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u/bobbymoonshine 18m ago

Omg dae prefer their hobbies to work

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

Probably cuz you're indian lmfao

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u/RoseboysHotAsf 1h ago

What

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

Dodge from kolkatta probably trying to scam me

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u/RoseboysHotAsf 1h ago

What

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

Kyle from Mumbai wants my mother's maiden name

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u/randomdude_reddit 55m ago

What

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u/Ok-Row-6131 35m ago

Dude's a bad troll

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u/randomdude_reddit 28m ago

Fr comment history filled with hating Indians