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Oh, yes, it's great to be a workhorse developer. You don't get any opportunities to use new technologies and improve your skills at work so you have a choice: program at home after work and in weekends or become useless in a few years and get out of the field or move into management if you're lucky.

It's really fun to make the first choice, because you either give up socializing and live a hollow life focused exclusively on programming, or you don't have time for physical exercises, cooking and eating real food(not junk) and other human routines that keep you healthy and you die at 40.

But never worry, because right before you'll leave this world you'll be able to say with immeasurable pride: "I've made someone else rich!".

Don't be stupid and care about interesting work and improving yourselves and especially don't boast about it because you make the workhorses feel bad(and FSM-forbid, even open their eyes). Shut up and keep your heads down because it will all be over soon.



Lol, Yup. It's funny he used the term "workhorse". I remember what happened to the workhorse in Animal Farm. A sucker is truly born every minute.




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