I used to be a line cook, and later a shift manager in food service. I’m now a software dev. I don’t work anywhere near as “hard” as I used to but it is a different kind of stress and work.
Instead of the highly physical and social work (dealing with customers) I did before I do a lot more mental work and have to explain things to non-technical managers/clients. While I work less hours than before there is a lot of cram time where I am working all day long. I’m also paid to problem solve. When there is a production issue I have to research and figure out what’s going on.
One issue I dealt with directly affected 60 million people. I had to quickly solve that issue because every minute counts when that many people are impacted. My most used work is used by literally 25% of the global population in some capacity.
I’m not paid for the hours I work (quite literally because I’m salaried). I am paid for my knowledge and ability to solve problems, whether live with production issues or while designing and building software.
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I used to be a line cook, and later a shift manager in food service. I’m now a software dev. I don’t work anywhere near as “hard” as I used to but it is a different kind of stress and work.
Instead of the highly physical and social work (dealing with customers) I did before I do a lot more mental work and have to explain things to non-technical managers/clients. While I work less hours than before there is a lot of cram time where I am working all day long. I’m also paid to problem solve. When there is a production issue I have to research and figure out what’s going on.
One issue I dealt with directly affected 60 million people. I had to quickly solve that issue because every minute counts when that many people are impacted. My most used work is used by literally 25% of the global population in some capacity.
I’m not paid for the hours I work (quite literally because I’m salaried). I am paid for my knowledge and ability to solve problems, whether live with production issues or while designing and building software.