When I first started learning comp sci a decade ago all the old heads were like, Automate the Boring Stuff, and bragging that they’d written simple routines that did 90 percent of their job.
The whole time I was thinking, ‘When middle management figures out your process you will be eliminated/replaced with an intern.’
I got out of IT because a future of resetting email passwords/taking the fall for your team when there is inevitably a hack seemed like a stressful future.
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When I first started learning comp sci a decade ago all the old heads were like, Automate the Boring Stuff, and bragging that they’d written simple routines that did 90 percent of their job.
The whole time I was thinking, ‘When middle management figures out your process you will be eliminated/replaced with an intern.’
I got out of IT because a future of resetting email passwords/taking the fall for your team when there is inevitably a hack seemed like a stressful future.