• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    40 old me looking at a screen with SSMS and Azure: Instead of an engineer like my father I should have been a tailor like my mom… Or a carpenter…

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      It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

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        Whenever I try building something with wood, I get so frustrated that it’s not version controlled. In software, I can fearlessly try dumb stuff because I can just roll it back if it didn’t work.

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          This isn’t brick laying or plastering. Carpentry is an easy job on the body.

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            If you think carpentry is easy on the body I can tell you’ve never worked for or as a carpenter before.

            In either case carpentry is a massive world. There is a lot more to being a carpenter than making furniture. If that’s all you’re doing as a carpenter than I would argue that you aren’t much of a carpenter and your experience is highly limited.

            To me this is like calling yourself a computer engineer because 2 hours a week you write Visual Basic code in an excel spreadsheet.