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Comment by p3llin0r3 | Hacker News Reader

What a crock of crap.

"Don't be ambitious: be mediocre and replaceable."

He's right. Don't try to be a youtube star or a professional athlete, or an actor. Do something realistic.

But I mean... do something ambitious for god's sake! Be an accountant! Be a doctor! Be a computer programmer! Hell: Be a lawyer. These are not crazy pipe dreams.

Lets say someone makes $120k as a programmer a year taking out NO debt, and having NO risk invested in the company they work for. That is a damn healthy small business.

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being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures doing exactly the programming I always wanted to do and more. I am already bored of what can be done with computers and the entire tech culture that I grew up in and loved. it is so repetitive.

So are most other jobs that pay a fraction of what programming pays. When I think of that, I'm still willing to put up with all the repetitiveness, bullshit, and literal pain of programming. Jobs suck. Otherwise they wouldn't be jobs.

Join the financial independence movement. Spend little and save much, and with a programmer salary you can not have to work again in a few short years.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

A lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from getting bogged down by the job.

I work on gpl'd systems software that is very relevant to my interests but I look to the future and can't see myself doing this for many more years, software as a whole is just so depressingly mundane

Business processes are what make it that way for me. I'd still rather do that than be an accountant or salesman or something.

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