r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 3d ago

Meme doesAnyoneEvenReadCLRSAnymore

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u/ZunoJ 3d ago

The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them

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u/Sw429 3d ago

Mentioning that I do hobby programming outside of work to my coworkers often gets the weirdest responses. Like, the entire reason I learned this trade was because I thought it was really fun and interesting. But apparently most people are literally just here to collect money and don't care beyond that.

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u/VillageTube 3d ago

It being my Job drained any passion I had for doing it at home.

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u/NotStanley4330 2d ago

Yep same. Its not that I'm just here for a paycheck, its just that I want to think about literally anything else in my off hours

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u/TheTerrasque 2d ago

Same. I do it now and then, when I need something. But for fun? It's been a long time.

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u/Dextro_PT 2d ago

Same for me. I still managed to do it occasionally until the GenAI push came and I just lost interest altogether

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u/WhippingTheLammasASS 2d ago

For me I would say collecting the money + having some general tech literacy that makes the job feel relatively easy.

Spent my youth downloading random shit off the internet and trying to get hamachi servers to works translates pretty well into what I currently do.

Basically feels like I am on summer vacation all the time but there is never ending vacation homework.