On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your happiness level at work? 1=horrible and 10=awesome.
How would you explain your level in one/two sentences max?
Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?
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#210
I'm the founder of my own startup. I love being able to work on interesting technical challenges while solving tangible problems for companies.
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#36
I'm a junior, so my dev work is very mentally draining. However I am well supported and respected by all.
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#410 - working independently I take on clients I want, work when and where I want. Freedom is fun.
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#56 I'm a junior, so my dev work is very mentally draining. However I am well supported and respected by all.
This is nearly identical to what I would say, have an upvote.
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#68.36233828377721
The explanation is that I haven't figured when to use the rounding function.
But seriously, I love what I do. Hope I can keep doing it forever.
Re: Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?
#7It ebbs and flows. Currently about an 8. Some places and projects have been hardly bearable, others have been great. Right now I'm leading a project to modernize an old Internet explorer 6 app. This thing has all the MS specific stuff; activex controls, dhtml behaviors, .htc files, I couldn't be happier. I never worked with that stuff so it's all new to me. No one in the org thinks it can be done, bring it on, I say!
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#84
Part of it is golden handcuffs, okay income, okay workload. Everything is fine.
Fine isn't interesting though.
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#98
Senior level, parttime independent. I'd give a 10 because when not working for a couple of weeks I really start to miss programming, but -2 because working with other developers and working with users is not always sunshine&happiness and because I mostly like to do lower level detailed stuff, debugging nasty stuff, ... but I cannot do that all of the time.
Re: Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?
#10tech 8 - working on cool things
office 4 - open office is the worst thing ever invented
people 7 - mostly good people, few bad
general happiness 6 - i need to stop working for others and choose my own path