If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
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If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
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Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#2I would say my life is pretty spoiled as a programmer, being able to work in a cushy air conditioned office, working on interesting problems.
But I still disagree with the author.. Hard work is where something requires a lot of effort to accomplish something, whether it be physical, mental, or emotional.
Physically demanding work is just a different category of hard work, not the only kind of hard work.
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#3Enjoying some work, or deriving some kind of satisfaction from it doesn't make it not hard. That makes it satisfying and worthwhile.
Stress, toil, and taxing the body to the point of destructiveness can also make things hard.
I don't even do web development, but the proliferation of standards and browser incompatibilities seem to make it hard. "Hard" means that other people can't do it easily. From this article, building a search engine as good as google wouldn't classify as hard, because other people would want to do it. I challege the author to simply build a search engine that beats google, since doing so doesn't qualify as 'hard' by the definition used in this article. (Or, at least, I suppose, the work of doing so doesn't classify as hard. But if you can't do it despite all of your efforts, how can it not qualify as 'hard work'?)
I enjoy a counter-intuitive conclusion, and I agree with having a healthy degree of skepticism in the credit people give themselves for tasks and accomplishments, but I still feel that this amounts to saying 'satisfying or enjoyable work can't qualify as hard', and limits the definition of hard to simply 'doing what other people don't want to do'. Other people don't want to eat bugs. That doesn't make eating bugs hard. Some people want to climb difficult mountains. People want to do that, so no matter the slope or mountain or risk of death, that can't qualify as hard.
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#4You might do "challenging work" or long hours of "shitty work", but not "hard work"? Etc
Sounds like the whole point rests on only a limited definition of the word hard.
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#5Enjoying some work, or deriving some kind of satisfaction from it doesn't make it not hard. That makes it satisfying and worthwhile. Stress, toil, and taxing the body to the point of destructiveness can also make things hard. I don't even do web development, but the proliferation of standards and browser incompatibilities seem to make it hard. "Hard" means that other people can't do it easily. From this article, buil…
Your "hard" seems to mean "difficult", while the author's is more synonymous with "arduous".
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#6Mental fatigue is a thing, too. It's not the same as physical hardship, but that doesn't mean you haven't worked hard when you leave your air-conditioned office to get some rest because you can't focus anymore.
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#7Mental fatigue is a thing, too. It's not the same as physical hardship, but that doesn't mean you haven't worked hard when you leave your air-conditioned office to get some rest because you can't focus anymore.
I agree that mental fatigue is a real thing. But what I find is that, in response to mental fatigue, I often read stuff on the internet as a form of "rest". But it doesn't work - it leaves me just as tired, if not more so.
You'd think, if I'm so smart, that sooner or later I'd learn to stop doing that. But I keep reaching for it, almost like an addict (seriously).
Re: If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work
#8Enjoying some work, or deriving some kind of satisfaction from it doesn't make it not hard. That makes it satisfying and worthwhile. Stress, toil, and taxing the body to the point of destructiveness can also make things hard. I don't even do web development, but the proliferation of standards and browser incompatibilities seem to make it hard. "Hard" means that other people can't do it easily. From this article, buil…
Your "hard" seems to mean "difficult", while the author's is more synonymous with "arduous".
Trying to shove your brain through a concrete wall for eight hours is arduous. It's just not physically arduous.
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#9I do not agree that the picture there really describes a hard work. Yes, the author itself might suffer greatly when forced to do it but it does not necessary apply to the ladies photographed.
The sky looks to be overcast, so it is not particularly hot, air is supposedly fresh, the work is not mentally challenging, so you can think your thoughts, sing or socialize.
Unless they push themselves too hard.
Work is hard when you push or you are forced to push yourself due to external forces - environment, used heavy equipment, management expectations etc.