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[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

The real advice is to realize that every job has components that are not fun.

There are professional athletes who still love to play their sport, and intend to retire into coaching, but hate dealing with marketing and promos and media availability. Lots hate the travel. Some don't like some of their teammates or coaches.

I know doctors who hate dealing with the paperwork, and programmers who hate dealing with documentation or testing, and lawyers who hate tracking their timesheets. But each of these are part of the job. The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.

[-] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.

That's a great way of putting it. Unfortunately, the drudgery of each job is rarely explained or even acknowledged to young people entering the workforce. That's how we end up with burnt out people in their 20s and 30s.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This also happens when people who love to cook at home get convinced to open a restaurant. There's a reason why restaurants have cooks/chefs and managers that do the admin stuff, and loads of other delegation. Cooking food and giving it to people you know for free when they're at your home is not the same as asking a world full of Karens to pay for your take on Mac n Cheese

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

One of the good things about IT in giant organisations is teams often get big enough to let programmers specialise into the job they enjoy. In my team one programmer does all the auto unit testing, the other two do more of the programming

In my job, I haven't found other analysts who want to do all the admin

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