If it sucks so bad, why do you do it?

I feel somewhat compelled to follow up. “If it’s such a shitty job”, you ask, “why do you do it at all?”

I’ve worked construction jobs and retail jobs. I would be perfectly happy to work as a surveyor for the rest of my life; it’s just that there’s no money in it.

But, that also underscores the commonality between the 2 jobs: I love building things. I love solving problems. There is a huge overlap, so to speak, between construction (by definition, the building of things) and software. Silicon Valley is full of useless assholes but that’s what drives them, too; it’s just that their sense of the world needs …. recalibration.

So I’d be totally happy working construction forever; but this job lets me be indoors in winter, and I get a little bit better salary. That’s really it. I see them as the same job.